No media present, won't boot up when connected by ethernet?

[Potatoguru]

I've ended up with a seemingly strange problem on my new PC, it's been working fine for a couple months but the other day when turning it on i was greeted by the "Checking for media.. no media present" screen on start up, when entering into the BIOS at startup my boot drive can't be seen.

The PC then proceeds to try and boot from IPV4 and fails getting stuck in an endless loop, however if i disconnect the Ethernet before i turn the PC on it get's to the "Checking for media present.. no media present" screen, stays there for about 10 seconds searching for present media and then boots from my SSD like normal, i can then connect the Ethernet and use the PC as before with no problems.

Does anybody have any experience with similar issues or any clues as to why my SSD has suddenly started acting odd? For reference my boot drive is an M.2 nvme SSD.

Thanks!

 

[SpyderTracks]

Check the boot order in the bios. If possible disable pxe (network boot) and make sure the m2 drive is first.

 

[Potatoguru]

the M.2 drive doesn't show up in my BIOS.

 

[Oussebon]

What options do?

 

[Scott]

If it boots from it, it must be there.

"No media present" often refers to an attempt to boot from DVD/CD, after which point it moves onto the next boot option. In this case, that would suggest the LAN option has been selected. With no LAN present, it defaults to the next option which is your M2 drive.

It sounds like the boot order has been changed, by error I'm guessing.

 

[ubuysa]

I've ended up with a seemingly strange problem on my new PC, it's been working fine for a couple months but the other day when turning it on i was greeted by the "Checking for media.. no media present" screen on start up, when entering into the BIOS at startup my boot drive can't be seen.

The PC then proceeds to try and boot from IPV4 and fails getting stuck in an endless loop, however if i disconnect the Ethernet before i turn the PC on it get's to the "Checking for media present.. no media present" screen, stays there for about 10 seconds searching for present media and then boots from my SSD like normal, i can then connect the Ethernet and use the PC as before with no problems.

Does anybody have any experience with similar issues or any clues as to why my SSD has suddenly started acting odd? For reference my boot drive is an M.2 nvme SSD.

Thanks!

That it boots with the network disconnected indicates that the network boot option must be appearing before the SSD boot option.

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[Potatoguru]

My boot order doesn't even have my M.2 Drive in it, this is why i'm getting confused. I can't find my drive in my BIOS on startup at all anymore, when i could it was the first boot drive in the boot order.

It's as if my PC doesn't realize the SSD is plugged in until 10-30 seconds after bootup.

 

[ubuysa]

My boot order doesn't even have my M.2 Drive in it, this is why i'm getting confused. I can't find my drive in my BIOS on startup at all anymore, when i could it was the first boot drive in the boot order.

It's as if my PC doesn't realize the SSD is plugged in until 10-30 seconds after bootup.

With Windows 10 it should show an entry called 'Windows Boot Manager' followed by the identity of the drive that partition is on (it's the EFI partition on your system drive). That should normally be the first option in your boot order.

Can you enter your BIOS setup, navigate to the boot order, take a photo, and then post that here please?

 

[Potatoguru]

So here is the picture of my boot devices, previously i couldn't see the boot manager but after a BSOD it's now visible.

I got a blue screen of death with a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT stop code today and ever since then i've been able to see my windows boot manager in the BIOS again, it seems to have fixed itself?

In my BIOS all the options seem fine now, i can see the windows boot manager and it was below my IPV4 Controller for some reason? I've moved it back to the top where it was previously. The only lingering issue i can detect is slow startup when i boot my PC, it sits at the PCSpecialist logo and loads for 10-20 seconds.

Thanks.

 

[ubuysa]

So here is the picture of my boot devices, previously i couldn't see the boot manager but after a BSOD it's now visible.

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I got a blue screen of death with a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT stop code today and ever since then i've been able to see my windows boot manager in the BIOS again, it seems to have fixed itself?

In my BIOS all the options seem fine now, i can see the windows boot manager and it was below my IPV4 Controller for some reason? I've moved it back to the top where it was previously. The only lingering issue i can detect is slow startup when i boot my PC, it sits at the PCSpecialist logo and loads for 10-20 seconds.

Thanks.

You need to change the boot order so that the Windows Boot Manager (on your ADATA SSD) is at the top. Currently your PC is trying four network boots before it tries the Windows system on your SSD. If the network is connected these will fail, if the network is not connected these are bypassed.