SSD hard drive failure?

[tight fart]

Computer wont boot.
Got back from hols, connected camera to download photos, left it running and came back to the dreaded blue screen.
After a few tries I noticed something flash on the boot process, I had to video to catch it.

Odd thing is, the keyboard was still working, I have tried another and its the same.
It’s a 256gb SSD and a while back I cloned a 1tb HDD, it was so slow I never used it.
Now if I put that in, it boots (v slowly).

10year old mini pc running win11

[Mr Pointy]

Is it maybe the BIOS CMOS coin battery gone flat? Typical fault profile where it was ok but fails when not powered up for a while.

[biggiles]

Looks like a BIOS issue, nothing to do with drives. Mr Pointy's suggestion is probably right.

It should boot to BIOS (i.e. without any keyboard errors) without any drives connected at all.

[.:ian:.]

Ahh, that takes me back.

Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue



Is there really nothing after that message?

[tight fart]

Changing the battery was one of the first things i tried.
After the keyboard flash I get the blue screen with error code 0xc0000225.
I thought it odd that it boots (although very slowly) with another drive.

[3din]

plug in a usb keyboard

[tight fart]

3din said:

plug in a usb keyboard

Tried that, no difference.

[captain_cynic]

KB not found.... that takes me back. Haven't seen that since my old 286.

It can be a very misleading error. Does the KB actually respond, try pressing F5 and find out what the Diag tells you. If you can get into the BIOS, see what devices are there or not there.

[.:ian:.]

Ok so windows is starting but failing with that error.

https://www.veeble.com/kb/fix-error-0xc0000225-in-...

[tight fart]

It’s not going to the automatic repair option, I think it should do on the 4th reboot but it’s not.

[.:ian:.]

tight fart said:

It s not going to the automatic repair option, I think it should do on the 4th reboot but it s not.

Create a windows usb boot disk and try repair from that.

[tight fart]

Thanks all, back up and running again.
One of the rescue processes offered a fresh windows install so I went with that.
Odd thing now is it won’t boot with my 6TB external hard drive plugged in but works fine if I connect once it’s running.

[xeny]

tight fart said:

Odd thing now is it won t boot with my 6TB external hard drive plugged in but works fine if I connect once it s running.

Check the BIOS boot order?

[tight fart]

I have removed the usb from the boot order altogether, still the same, I then did the win11 install but that made no difference. So I guess I’ll just have to live with it.