Framework Desktop Not Booting After Updating to Windows 11 25H2

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Hi all, I’m wondering if anyone else has had this problem. My 64GB 395+ FW Desktop no longer turns on after shutting down and applying Windows Update 25H2. There is a solid orange light near the top right active as soon as I plug in the desktop and I believe LED2 blinks once when pressing and holding the power button. Really frustrating since all I did was some light local LLM work with GPT-OSS 20B earlier today. I’ve tried resetting the mainboard. I didn’t make any other changes besides updating Windows when shutting down earlier. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: In case someone comes across this, I’ve addressed the issue by resetting the mainboard and uninstalling and reinstalling my primary drive. It works as it should now without any drive corruption. I hadn’t moved the machine or anything but I’m not sure if something had needed to be reseated.

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This is really odd. I have this same Windows update and did not experience any issues. My guess is there is something messed up with the hardware, double check connections and likely this needs a support ticket.

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In case someone comes across this, I’ve addressed the issue by resetting the mainboard and uninstalling and reinstalling my primary drive. It works as it should now without any drive corruption. I hadn’t moved the machine or anything but I’m not sure if something had needed to be reseated.

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several months after and the same thing just happend to me. again. after a windows update, no operative system is detected and it simply won’t boot, I went trough multiple attepts of Cmos reset and also dismounting the SSD, I’m at the point where I hae manage to make it boot but des installing the ssd , boot without ssd and then mount the ssd again and the second time it boots but the problem is that it will die again after turn it it off. it won’t boot unless I go trough the whole ssd dismount process. which is definetely not ideal for sure.

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This all sounds like a secure boot issue.

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how do I even start to troubleshoot it. I mean should I disable secure boot before the update ? I managed to stabilized the system again by unistalling windows completely and installing an old copy of windows 11 I had, and it works great, very stable I can restart it , it always boots correctly it’s been great. but now I’m afraid to update windows and I have stoped all updates for 5 weeks.

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To me it sounds more like hardware or/and driver/firmware issue, than something with secure boot, but it can be part of it.

Here some troubleshoot steps, if you like:

  • Did you test your ssd?

  • And try to run DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restore Health and then check with sfc /scannow via cmd in admin mode? To see if you windows data integriteit is good?

  • What bios are you running?

  • Did windows event viewer say anything, like critical errors in application, security & system tabs?

  • Are drivers up to date? (use GitHub - lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer: Driver Store Explorer · GitHub ) to get your driver list with dates & versions for those drivers.

  • Did you take a close look at you m.2 slots, and try the secondary m.2 slot?

  • What sdd & wifi card & power supply=(if self build) are you using?

  • Did you contact framework support, about this? They might have seen this before!

These are just some basic troubleshoot questions & steps, hoops it helps you.

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