The controller board would only contain the BIOS/CFE needed to boot the firmware. Well thanks for reading - if you have any ideas let me know - thanks!įor decades when flash was expensive, the standard practice was to put the firmware (the drive's OS) as well as the locations of any relocated sectors onto a hidden service track on the spinning disk media itself. It feels like it's got to be something with the new PSU and I'm guessing the Painter hang is a separate problem and incidental - but I'm not sure. Last I removed all RAM except for 1 stick, and power and data from all drives except the boot SSD - nothing.

I also tried changing to IDE mode but that didn't work either. I tried Fail-Safe and Default in the BIOS. I checked the connections many times, I swapped power cables - I tried using the 'good' drive's power and data cable on my boot SSD - no luck. Now out of 2 SSDs and 4 HDDs the BIOS only shows 1 HDD, which is not my boot drive. I thought maybe the PSU had finally crapped out so I put in the new PSU.

I couldn't even get to Safe mode even with my installation disk.

The installer hung till I finally reset but the computer wouldn't boot. Just prior to installing the new PSU I tried to install Corel Painter 2019 - the demo version. The first PSU always bothered me tho there was nothing wrong with it (Corsair 850x). I installed a new PSU (Evga Supernova 1200P2 Platinum) on my old - LGA1366 - desktop.

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