MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWIG - reboot fails consistently

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Hello everyone!

I just got a new MSI Vector 16. I'm very happy with it, it's a small machine but matches or outperforms my desktop RTX 3090.
I have one problem that I cannot fix, it is that on each reboot (not a cold start, reboot) the windows boot fails with the following error:

Error code: 0xc0000185
File: \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD
Info: The Boot Configuration for your PC is missing or contains errors.

But if I hard-shutdown by holding down the power button, and start it up again, it works. There's only one efi partition, there's only one ssd.
I have tried reinstalling windows by formatting the entire drive multiple times at this point, with or without Intel VMD from the advanced controls in BIOS.

If anyone has any ideas for things to try that could fix this, I'd appreciate it a lot
 
Have you ever changed the SSD? Or you can just try to open and reinstall the SSD to check if the issue remains or not.
 
Thanks for writing in. I've figured this out after a few days of head banging. For whoever stumbles upon this from Google in the future:

- The laptop has two nvme slots, up (lets call it slot 1), down (lets call it slot 0)
- The factory puts an nvme drive in lower slot, slot 0
- I had made the mistake of putting my boot drive in slot 1 (the top one)
- There's something wrong with MSI's firmware, it will fail to boot operating systems from slot 1
- Reinstalling the drive, or reinstalling the OS in slot 0 fixes this issue
 
Would you please share the model name of the SSD? I just want to know if it happens with the specific SSD or if the slot on the motherboard failed.
And the slot 1, upper one, is it nearer to the heat pipe or nearer to the battery? I assume it is nearer to the heat pipe, isn't it?
 
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Hello!

The ssd is crucial p3 plus. And yes I’m talking about the upper slot closer to heat pipes. I’m convinced its a software issue not a hardware issue because pressing f11, the ssd still shows up in the bios boot devices list, and the efi partition that the windows bootloader loads from (and then complains of being corrupt) is also on the same drive. For what its worth, I connected the oem ssd through a usb nvme enclosure and got the exact same issue.

Anything not in the lower slot or slot 0 just doesnt work except in a cold boot or in a bios-settings-saved boot.
 
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