Solved AUDIRVĀNA (and other audio related chitchat)

badrobot · Feb 27, 2023

Edwin said:
Yikes!!! That ain't good!!!
You didn't get hit with a power surge there, did you?

Nope. We almost never have that here. Except one time when there was an accident outside. Someone hit a power pole.

badrobot · Feb 27, 2023

If this is as bad as I think it is, the CD player is probably not meant to be. I may have to buy a new hardware for this PC...

Edwin · Feb 27, 2023

The PC will post but not boot, correct?
Corrupt boot loader maybe?
Bad RAM???

I'm just spitballing here..., I won't bug ya anymore, you enough on your plate right now!

badrobot · Feb 27, 2023

Re-seated RAM, GPU and flashed CMOS (replaced battery while I was there). Nothing.

Edwin · Feb 27, 2023

badrobot said:
Re-seated RAM, GPU and flashed CMOS (replaced battery while I was there). Nothing.

Don't know what to tell ya!
Does it post at all, or do you get nothing?

Edwin · Feb 27, 2023

I gotta jet, sir!
Hope you can still get your work done with your laptop!

I'm confident that when I check in some time tomorrow, you'll be up and running!

Dru2 · Feb 27, 2023

badrobot said:
Re-seated RAM, GPU and flashed CMOS (replaced battery while I was there). Nothing.

Did motherboard boot up? Did it try to boot into Windows?

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

Edwin said:
Don't know what to tell ya!
Does it post at all, or do you get nothing?

Yes. It does post. I have a feeling it is the M.2 ssd after re-seating all the other components.

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

Dru2 said:
Did motherboard boot up? Did it try to boot into Windows?

Yes it did. It takes long to boot up and it seems like it is choking up. I need to look into the boot drive itself.

Edwin · Feb 28, 2023

badrobot said:
Yes. It does post. I have a feeling it is the M.2 ssd after re-seating all the other components.

badrobot said:
Yes it did. It takes long to boot up and it seems like it is choking up. I need to look into the boot drive itself.

Man! Scary

can happen out of the blue!!!

Makes me wanna check my backups and recovery tools right now!!!

Good luck @badrobot

Dru2 · Feb 28, 2023

Is the OS giving you way to fix/repair Windows?

If so, try to boot into Advanced Options if possible and choose a "System Restore" and choose a Restore Point and see if that works. Just had something like what you're going through last week, and a system restore worked.

Also, if the OS drive is near full, try removing some stuff to get the drive down to 70 percent full an see how it goes.

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

Dru2 said:
Is the OS giving you way to fix/repair Windows?

If so, try to boot into Advanced Options if possible and choose a "System Restore" and choose a Restore Point and see if that works. Just had something like what you're going through last week, and a system restore worked.

Also, if the OS drive is near full, try removing some stuff to get the drive down to 70 percent full an see how it goes.

Thanks for input. I can get all the options that you mentioned but it is molasses right now. It will take forever to get at those options and once you are there, it will just freeze there and won't do anything after clicking any of the restore or repair options.
My OS drive is 30% full only.

My next target are my other disks.. My Win 11 insider drive and my data disk.

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

I found the culprit!!!
A dying spinner data drive!

Good thing I have a spare...

Edwin · Feb 28, 2023

badrobot said:
I found the culprit!!!
A dying spinner data drive!

Good thing I have a spare...

Hopefully that will get you fixed up!

How did the dying data drive affect the boot sector, though?

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

Edwin said:
Hopefully that will get you fixed up!

How did the dying data drive affect the boot sector, though?

It hogs the entire PC resource for some reason. It is corrupted. Good thing I only store disposable files there.
Tried connecting it via USB dock to attempt recovery but it also freezes the entire PC and cause big time slow down even via USB.
My PC boots up within seconds without it.

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

It is a case of a corrupted drive corrupting the entire PC. But it is a really an old drive. It is time to let it go.

Edwin · Feb 28, 2023

badrobot said:
My PC boots up within seconds without it.

badrobot said:
It is time to let it go.

Yup!

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

Edwin said:
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Yup!

Well at least I was able to do some maintenance stuffs while I was working on the PC.
Dust fans, dust the GPU, re-seat RAMs, replace CMOS battery, update BIOS and replace data drive.

Edwin · Feb 28, 2023

badrobot said:
Well at least I was able to do some maintenance stuffs while I was working on the PC.
Dust fans, dust the GPU, re-seat RAMs, replace CMOS battery, update BIOS and replace data drive.

You all good now?

badrobot · Feb 28, 2023

Edwin said:
You all good now?

I think so. I lost my Macrium images to that corrupted drive. Good thing my main OS did not get corrupted with all those restart and hard resets last night. I just need to reinstall a new W11 insider because that is the one I blew. But it doesn't really matter. It is just for play anyway.