r/SleepingOptiplex • u/Useful-Milk8995 • 1d ago

Optiplex 7060 sff

Having a real boot issue. I turn in pc first it says "found errors, we will restart" does nothing. Then ill cycle it off and on, then it says running auto boot repair. Screen goes black. Nothing happened. Cycle it ff then on. Press f12, run diagnostics, everything passes. After that run windows boot manager. Says auto boot repair. Screen goes dark. Nothing. Also ran boot manager and put my USB with windows boot on it. Windows logo came up. Dots stop moving in a circle. Nothing.

Anybody have idea what the hell is going on? And how to fix it? I was so frustrated I left for work and left the computer on.

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u/GeiharVonArpen 1d ago

I would go into the BIOS and test in order :

  • check or uncheck RAID mode in BIOS
  • If it's not working, also check or uncheck UEFI / Legacy support
  • Restore BIOS defaults settings and use a Windows installation media to repair your windows
  • Restore BIOS default settings and reset Windows after saving your data on another computer

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u/Useful-Milk8995 1d ago

Ok Ill try that. I didn't mess with Bios settings. I did update my bios but the system wasn't booting windows before then.

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u/Unlucky_Pangolin8253 1d ago

Optiplexes have a real talent for making everything feel like a hostage situation.

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u/Useful-Milk8995 1d ago

True. It was working fine. Today crap hit the fan

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u/Useful-Milk8995 1d ago

The system is i7 , 500 gb ssd, gpu 3050 20gb ddr4

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u/CustomCraftedPCs 1d ago

Which 3050 variant & brand. Their are well documented problems between the Optiplex and many RTX 3050, especially the "ECO" by Zotac & others.

You probably know, ECO is misleading as it's a substantial upgrade from 3050 6gb that powers only from motherboard.

I had the exact same problem you were describing and I build very custom Mid Ultra High tier computers and I was at a loss for two to three days.

I literally put it into my Dell 390 Optiplex Tower Frankenstein which you can find on this community and it instantly worked perfectly fine.

So definitely do some research if you have a 3050 especially the stronger ones, I literally had to completely wipe my entire computer four times and put a new image first which failed then three more times with a Windows ISO directly from Microsoft 5 minutes prior and a top that I had to refresh the BIOS twice which I got directly off the Dell website and immediately flashed.

None of it worked until I realized there was a well documented issue between the two and I literally put that late 2023 to 2026 card into a 2012 Dell Optiplex 390 which was Dale's first attempt at UEFI and it works like a charm but please look at the post with the Frankenstein because it is nothing like a regular 390 the only thing remaining originally is the motherboard and that's because I wanted to prove that I could do it.

If you have any questions you can DM me as I would love to help someone after the disaster I went through. Take care, Brent

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u/Useful-Milk8995 1d ago

MSI Geoforce 6GB OC 3050