Dumbidiot5566
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Hey guys, I’m new to the forum so I’m not sure if this is the right place to post. Sorry for the long story but I’ve run into some difficulties.
Yesterday I was on my computer, which runs Linux Mint 20, watching the sopranos which I have downloaded on my hard drive, and all of a sudden while watching the sopranos my computer started making what sounded like cricket chirping noises. It started making this noise every second for over 5 mins straight, which again, sounded like chirping noise that a cricket would make. Like a noise as if something was being rubbed against another. So I began trying to open my documents but the documents application was being super slow to the point where it eventually froze. I then tried to restart the computer through the OS, not manually, but for about five minutes it would not do so, it just got stuck at the screen telling me it was preparing to restart. Because of this I decided to turn it off using the power button. When I turned it back on, it went to the boot up screen for like 10 minutes, and finally it went to a black screen saying I needed to reboot and insert proper boot device, indicating the computer did not see an OS on either drive. So I went into the bios and saw that the computer did not recognize any OS, and only had the option to boot from my SSD (which Linux was mounted on), and did not have the option to boot from HDD. It was as if the OS was just wiped from the drive. After messing with the options and really going through all the boot options I ended up seeing the HDD, so thankfully the computer did recognize both drives, but again it did not see any OS at all, and I tried to boot override from both drives multiple times each and nothing came up, it just went to the same black screen telling me I need to select proper boot device. Not only that, but the computer has been incredibly slow. Once I get into the bios it is normal speed, but getting to the bios from boot takes forever. And restarting it with CTRL ALT DLT after there’s a failed boot (due to no OS) takes forever also. The computer outside of the BIOS has just become incredibly slow. I’m not sure if this is a hardware issue or software issue.
Yesterday I was on my computer, which runs Linux Mint 20, watching the sopranos which I have downloaded on my hard drive, and all of a sudden while watching the sopranos my computer started making what sounded like cricket chirping noises. It started making this noise every second for over 5 mins straight, which again, sounded like chirping noise that a cricket would make. Like a noise as if something was being rubbed against another. So I began trying to open my documents but the documents application was being super slow to the point where it eventually froze. I then tried to restart the computer through the OS, not manually, but for about five minutes it would not do so, it just got stuck at the screen telling me it was preparing to restart. Because of this I decided to turn it off using the power button. When I turned it back on, it went to the boot up screen for like 10 minutes, and finally it went to a black screen saying I needed to reboot and insert proper boot device, indicating the computer did not see an OS on either drive. So I went into the bios and saw that the computer did not recognize any OS, and only had the option to boot from my SSD (which Linux was mounted on), and did not have the option to boot from HDD. It was as if the OS was just wiped from the drive. After messing with the options and really going through all the boot options I ended up seeing the HDD, so thankfully the computer did recognize both drives, but again it did not see any OS at all, and I tried to boot override from both drives multiple times each and nothing came up, it just went to the same black screen telling me I need to select proper boot device. Not only that, but the computer has been incredibly slow. Once I get into the bios it is normal speed, but getting to the bios from boot takes forever. And restarting it with CTRL ALT DLT after there’s a failed boot (due to no OS) takes forever also. The computer outside of the BIOS has just become incredibly slow. I’m not sure if this is a hardware issue or software issue.