SSD on its way out and/or secure boot failure?

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Jase2985

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#2880851 8-Mar-2022 09:10

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timmmay:

I read something a while back about it helping consolidate directory tables or something. May or may not be correct.

there where technical reasons for defragging SSD's that I cant remember

Thats why Win10 DOES actually auto defrag your SSD's .

yes but not in the traditional sense of what happens on an spinning drive. It doesnt move all the data around and create a nice continuous block at the start of the drive or across the drive.

My NVME SSD is 58% fragmented according to defraggler, even though MS has been doing weekly/monthly optimizations on it.

My SATA SSD is 65% fragmented according to defraggler, even though MS has been doing weekly/monthly optimizations on it.

go figure

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#2880854 8-Mar-2022 09:24

It appears that if volume shadow copy is on it may defrag your drive to speed up the work.

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#2881100 8-Mar-2022 11:22

K8Toledo:

MadEngineer:

Another oddity, CSM support is turned on in the BIOS. Not sure when that happend; maybe after a BIOS update at some point in time and maybe Windows 11 recovered itself to make it work. But now if I turn that on the system won't POST.

I remember running the Windows 11 test prior to upgrading from 10 and everything was ticked. Now I notice that secure boot is disabled not that anything is complaining about that.

The BIOS doesn't list any devices under the UEFI screen

System Info reports BIOS mode is UEFI

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ADATA XPG SX8200NP

I haven't read through the entire thread just replying to this post:

Do you mean BIOS doesn't list any devices under UEFI or Boot Menu doesn't list any UEFI devices?

It's likely you mean the Boot Menu in which case the boot drive is probably MBR formatted. If so, it won't be listed under UEFI Boot Menu.

CSM allows booting from MBR formatted drive as well as GPT.

CSM disabled only GPT formatted boot drives will be detected. Once CSM is enabled a Boot Devices/Storage Devices submenu should appear with options to boot from either UEFI, Legacy, or both UEFI & Legacy.

'Legacy' in this case refers to MBR drives.

Regarding drive health/performance, SMART stats and real life benchmark results (vs synthetic) would be handy.

CrystalDisk

I'll check the formatting when I get home but yes, the drive does not appear under UEFI devices in the BIOS, and does appear under the boot menu devices (it boots off it).

I believe that's due to having CSM turned on

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#2881377 8-Mar-2022 20:36

Nah the drive is GPT

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#2884532 10-Mar-2022 19:00

So I purchased a new SSD, tested a usb drive with a Windows 11 setup on it, installed the new SSD, turned off CSM support and I get 5 beeps on POST.

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#2884538 10-Mar-2022 19:15

New SSD is a Samsung 980 Pro and still “No NVMe Device Found” showing under the NVMe Configuration page of the BIOS.

[edit - rather than making a FOURTH post ...]

Clearly this is a video card issue due to the 5 beeps and the motherboard's boot VGA LED lighting up. Googling suggests that the 270x doesn't have UEFi support.

Noting some steps I went through:

Turn on secure boot, reboot
Turn off CSM (the above has to be done first to allow this step)
POST fails
BIOS reset (still failed)
Swap to backup BIOS (turn off, hold power, power on; still failed)
Remove video card, swap monitor to onboard graphics (PC POSTs)
Undo the above (turn off secure boot, reboot, turn ON CSM. Not doing exactly that will result in CSM turning itself back off)
Reinsert 270x

Yeah, the above was fun LOL

Any suggestions for a replacement equivalent to this video card (2nd hand or other)? It runs well enough for what I'm playing.

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