My system:
8700K
ASUS Z370-A
M.2 #1: Intel P4500 NVME (boot drive (AHCI), Windows 10)
SATA: 4TB mechanical HD
To this already working PC, I’ve decided to add an Optane P1600X M.2.
So I Installed the Optane card in the available M.2 #1 slot of the mobo,
The RST Driver was already installed in Windows with its icon shown in the taskbar, but I read I need a newer version in order to use the Optane APP with the new P1600X (I tried installing the newest RST driver, and it told me to first enable RST in the BIOS).
Entered the BIOS and Changed from AHCI to RST, for both M.2’s - #1 Optane P1600X and #2 P4500 NVME (my Windows boot drive),
Restarted the PC, and ever since the PC doesn’t boot… It’s stuck in some initial loop, without reaching even the BIOS, nothing shown on screen, the CPU fans speed changes as if something happening: Speed up with the HD LED change from blinking to constant on, then slow down with the HD LED off, and the process repeat – for 10 hours as of now.
I’m afraid to interrupt it. Afraid I was supposed to change the bios RST only for the P1600X, and I hope switching the boot drive also to RST didn’t broke the P4500… nor the SATA 4TB HD, which I set for Windows backup and snapshot to use
I’m writing this from an old laptop. Please teach me what happened, and what to do.
try shorting the clrclk jumper with residual power.
if it still doesnt boot.
pull the drives apart from your windows nvme,
and use the clear clock jumper at the bottom right of the board.
to do this.
plug in the power brick, turn the switch at the wall on and then the switch on the psu…
power on then power off the pc.
now you have about 10 seconds to reach in and short the jumper while the board has residual current in it.
sort the clrclk jumpers for about 5 seconds.
now power on the pc as normal and you should see the bios splash.
if you dont
then you can try clearing the cmos completely buy pulling the battery.
putting residual power into the system, shorting the battery +/- terminals on the board for 5 seconds. put the battery back in and boot the system.
(assuming theres no clear cmos button/jumper which isnt the same as clrclk)
The PC is ON, but doesn’t display anything, not even BIOS.
It behave kinda like when a PC tries to train the memory, but doesn’t reach the BIOS, It lingers in an “almost” stage for approx half a minute, and then the fans spin down for 2 seconds, and spin up again… and so on for 14 hours as of now.
regarding the P4500 NVME, which is the boot drive with Windows, that was set as AHCI in the bios:
Was that a mistake switching it to RST?
What will happen to it now? will it ever load windows again, or did I lose the data on it?
Was I suppose to set only the Optane P1600X to RST? Not the boot drive P4500 NVME?
Is this never ending cycle because I set both M.2’S to RST? Is this some “RAID” process the M.2 storages are going through?
If it goes on for 14 hours, should I do something, lik turning it off and on again?
Is my goal to enter the BIOS again and switch the P4500 to AHCI again?
resetting the bios. will clear the settings and allow you to get into the bios.
once you do the setting you changed from ahci to rst will reset back to ahci and the system will likely boot as normal…
if it doesnt it should at least boot back to bios…
where you can select a primary boot device… select your windows drive and you should now boot into it.
and no you wont have affected windows. (at least it shouldn’t be damaged.)
I’m in!
changed from RST to AHCI and windows booted.
First thing VALIDATE ALL BACKUPS
Then I’ll need to gather the courage to give the Optane another try (in different post)
