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Constant "Boot device not found" and "ran into a problem and needs to restart"
UPDATE: Today my computer bluescreened IN THE MIDDLE OF EDITING A WORD DOCUMENT and I almost lost hours of changes. Thank goodness for Word autorecovery. (Sometimes I go a long time without saving on purpose, because I want to make a lot of tentative changes at once and I don't want to commit to them. I like being able to close out and cancel everything if I decide to.)
That's it, I absolutely cannot live like this.
I tried to post a reply to Charlie34000 yesterday but I don't know where it went? Charlie, thank you for the suggestion, I tried looking in the BIOS for the Fast Boot option but I couldn't find it anywhere. Am I missing something? (I had a screenshot of the menu but I didn't keep it after I thought I had posted it. I'll retake it later.)
Thanks for the update — and the blue screen you got while editing a Word document actually fits the same pattern as your boot issue. When a system shows:
- “Boot device not found” on the first cold boot
- A normal boot after a restart
- And now a blue screen during normal use
…it usually points to the same root cause: the SSD is becoming unstable and sometimes fails to initialize or respond in time.
Your earlier BIOS screenshot already confirmed that your model doesn’t include any Fast Boot or Quick Boot option, so you’re not missing anything there.
What you’re seeing is very typical of an SSD that’s starting to age:
- cold starts fail because the drive doesn’t initialize fast enough
- once warmed up, it works normally
- but under load (like Word autosaving), it can still momentarily drop out and trigger a blue screen
At this point, the safest next steps are:
- Back up your files (OneDrive, USB drive, anything you prefer)
- Consider replacing the SSD — this is the most common and reliable fix for this exact behaviour
- If you can share the “Device Configurations” BIOS page, I can check whether your model exposes any storage‑timing options, but many Spectre models simply don’t
You’re absolutely not doing anything wrong — your system is just showing classic signs of storage failure, and you caught it early enough to avoid data loss.
