Maid knocked power supply loose in Gaming PC

I get the black window/cursor flash when there is no bootable drive present. See if all the drives are showing up in the bios and make sure the OS drive is listed first in the boot order.

hotplug means you can add or remove the drive while the computer is on. If hotplug is disabled that means you can only add or remove the drive when the computer is powered off.

Some BIOS have something like, "fast boot" options. I usually disable that.
There's a setting in windows to disable it as well. They do different things, but some graphics cards have issues with "fast startup."

Anyway, I bring it up because my kid's PC would have issues with cold starts, and after some digging around I discovered that setting. Seems to have resolved it.

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I thought maybe those MSI type bios screens had USB mouse support.

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They do, my son's mouse is wireless, I plugged in my wired mouse and the mouse works on the MSI bios.

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And I'm not giving him access to mine. Weird concept for you?

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Never post here on the tech board, but this is a weird concept to me yes. You want to restrict him which I get, but don’t want him to learn a new skill by trouble shooting this in his own. Add an account to your computer with restrictions and let him go with the boundaries this is to solve the problem and nothing else. You don’t trust your child to follow those directions?

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You don’t trust your child to follow those directions?

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I don't trust adults to follow directions.

Unfortunately, most Linux for regular people proselytizers aren't joking. Telling your kid to try to boot to an unfamiliar operating system to search DuckDuckGo on why the system won't finish POST is a moronic answer. That's not why people post here instead of Reddit \r\I_LUV_Linux_and_Homebrew_Machinez .

If your maid is that bad, she probably did knock something loose. Assuming the power cable to the wall was hanging on by a thread, I can see how that can happen. If it was even moderately secured, she hates your family and everything about your house to hit it that hard with a vacuum.

Most likely, the son is lying. He got excited playing a game and knocked his pc over or whatever. A simple power cable being loose isn't a power supply being knocked loose. It's a red herring. At least it's just a simple ssd chip drive replacement and windows install and he's back to downloading things he shouldn't be.

I realize you don't know much about computers, but if you watch a few videos, then you can learn how to make a bootable usb thumb drive to repair your windows installation. But before you do that, learn how to install a ssd so you can make sure it's not out of socket. With any luck, it's out of socket and you can pop it in and it boots right up. If not the next luck would be it just lost a boot sector and can be repaired easily. Worst will be total loss and replacement of ssd and windows and whatever was on the drive.

FWIW, Maybe it was the maid, but usually it's the kid lying. I realize it sounds horrible to say that, but they're people too and everyone lies.

Is this stuff Geek Squad can do?

Lets try this again-