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SSD not showing up and long (>2 minute) startup
Hello,
I have been having trouble with my Windows 7 PC recently. It is an overclocked machine (3.3GHz overclocked to 4.7GHz), but all the temps are fine. I have been having the occasional BSOD, which is probably related to CPU voltages.
Also, as it seems is quite common on windows systems generally, when it goes to sleep, it often does not wake up. A press of a key will make the PC sound as if it's coming to life - fans spin up - but nothing else happens - the displays remain blank.
So, that's the background. We're not starting out with a terribly healthy PC, I know.
After a recent non-wake up event, I did a force shutdown (hold the power button) and then started it up again, only to be confronted with various 'Windows did not shut down properly, I'm fixing lots of things' screens. Then a restart, and slowwly, very slowly (2min 15sec on the Starting Windows screen) it came back to life. Except one of my SSDs is not showing up. I scheduled a diskcheck on all the (three) good disks, just to be sure - they all passed. Crucially, the SSD is not listed on the BIOS list at the very start of the startup process.
I tried shutting down and removing and reinserting the SSD (it's the type that is on a clip-slide-out kinda thing in the front of the machine) in case it's jiggled out of position, but that achieved nothing.
So, any help would be GREATLY appreciated, please!