Windows 10: Motherboard is dying?

Boombastik,
I don't think so, because I tried to boot from an external Enclosure that has a separate power supply and it still would not boot

 

You can't use an external HDD for your OS.

If you want to an external Windows OS, there is a portable version but it's only available as a Windows 10 Pro licence.

 

Well, this has me stumped and confused.
See if someone can make sense of this.
A while back, both of my hard drives would not show in the bios or during post, so I decided that my motherboard is bad. So I got me a new one, same make and model, because I did not want to invest in a new CPU or RAM or anything else that might be needed and I don’t want to call MS to activate again.
So I installed the MB without any problem. Put all my stuff back in and tried to boot. No dice, it stopped at “Verifying Pool Data” just sat there curser blinking.
After a few attempts to boot it finally started to boot, but tells me it encountered a problem and needs to reboot. It then did diagnostic and tried to repair the boot drive, but cannot.
At this time my “C” drive is on channel 0 as master and my second drive (divided into D,E,F)is the slave. Both are SSD drives
Then I remembered that I have a Macrium image on drive “E”and decided to re image the “C” drive.
Booting with Macrium, I find the image, but it cannot find drive “C” to install it.
Mind you both drives show in the BIOS and during POST. So I decided to install one of my old spinners in place of the “C” drive, Channel 0 master,and try again. Again the drive is not visible to Macrium.
I decided to change drive “C” to channel 1 master and now I can restore the image and the computer booted.
I have not yet tried to install the old SSD drive.
Anyone know what is going on??

 

Can you tell us the make and model of the MB and the SSD drives? This may help us with the issue. Also you keep saying IDE channels. IDE SSD's are pretty rare and really not worth it since IDE limits speed to 133MB/s.

 

Sure,
MB is Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P AND THE ssd's are both Crucial BX200 2.5 inch model CTX240BX200SSD1
under standard CMOS Features, I have 3 channels (0,1,2) each with master and slave and it is called IDE Channel
at integrated Peripherals I have set the OnChip SATA controller to Enable and below it says Sata Type that I can set to native IDE, or RAID, or AHCI it is set to native ide it was always set to native IDE

Thanks
Sven

 

First you should change the SATA controller to AHCI mode otherwise you're not taking full advantage of the SSD's. Second, given the problems you are having, a clean install may be the way to go since you have a back up.

 

Thanks,
but I think you misread my post.
my "C" drive was on channel 0 Master and even though it showed up in the bios and at post. it will not boot. after I changed it to channel 1 Master it works fine. something going on with my MB, I think
Sven