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PC doesn't boot on restart, but boots fine when shut down and then started up

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Hi Carbies

I've got a weird problem. I have a Ryzen 5 2600 in an MSI B350 PC Mate running Windows 10 off of a cheap WD M.2 SSD. My PC boots up fine if it was off, but when it restarts, the fans spin up but nothing happens. Even the keyboard's lights stay off. I have to do a hard reset to fix it then. Is it a BIOS setting I'm missing? I'm completely stumped.

Any help will be appreciated.
 
Gigabyte GTX 1080 Gaming and an Acer 24 inch 1080p. I doubt that's the issue though?
 
Hi Carbies

I've got a weird problem. I have a Ryzen 5 2600 in an MSI B350 PC Mate running Windows 10 off of a cheap WD M.2 SSD. My PC boots up fine if it was off, but when it restarts, the fans spin up but nothing happens. Even the keyboard's lights stay off. I have to do a hard reset to fix it then. Is it a BIOS setting I'm missing? I'm completely stumped.

Any help will be appreciated.
reset bios? It worked for me back in the day??
 
Does it happen when you restart from windows, what if you press the reset button, for instance while in windows or in bios?
What PSU do you have?
Are the fans that spin plugged into the motherboard or direct onto the PSU?
 
It happens whenever I restart from BIOS or Windows. I have a Cooler Master GX 750. All the fans spin up, some are plugged into mobo headers, others are directly plugged into the PSU via molex. I'll try to do a BIOS reset like HolyCowImAnoOb recommended and see if that works.
 
Next step would then be to see whether you can test with a different PSU. Could be an early sign of plans of retirement.
 
So the BIOS reset worked. I reset, booted into windows and rebooted. All was well. I restarted again, reapplied my memory and CPU overclocks and it still booted into windows when I restarted. I'm still curious though, could this have been caused by a BIOS setting? Or was it some sort of anomaly?

I have a PSU test kit, I'll check the volts on the rails and if there is any sign of inconsistent power delivery. Hopefully it doesn't give me bad news, I'm flat broke :D
 

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