(SOLVED) GA-Z87N-WIFI flashed F6 and now can't boot from USB flash drives

[Kris44]

got a bunch of bootable flash drives but none of them will boot.  Checked BIOS boot order many times.  Thankfully CD/DVD boots so I'm not dead in the water.  I put an incident in to Gigabyte last night - haven't heard back - don't know how good they are.

Anyone heard of this?  New mobo time?

Thanks!

GA-Z87N-WIFI mobo, i5 4670K, CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 hsf, 8GB ballistix 1600(2x4), Win7 Pro x64 SP1 current, Sammy 250GB Evo SSD

[dmdilks]

Just asking were you having a problem before the update and why did you update?

[Kris44]

Just asking were you having a problem before the update and why did you update?

No problems before. didn't realize it was out.  It spoke to K CPUs which I have.  Yes 20/20 hindsight but can't go back.

[dmdilks]

Yes 20/20 hindsight but can't go back.

Why not it doesn't say any thing about you can't. I just updated a bios on a Z170 board because I was having a problem with memory. The same thing It made things worse. I went back to a older bios.

[shadowsports]

Kris44,
Whatever you decide...  what method were you using to boot?  Were you setting in Boot Order or using Function key for one time boot option?  Just curious 

[Kris44]

Yes 20/20 hindsight but can't go back.

Why not it doesn't say any thing about you can't. I just updated a bios on a Z170 board because I was having a problem with memory. The same thing It made things worse. I went back to a older bios.

I tried it in QFlash and in win7 in @BIOS  Both pointedly gave me a message saying I couldn't go back and gave me no way around.


I have tried setting the boot order - it forgets and is very specific so last time I put a bunch of different ones and set the order, but no go.

It seems to not like Linux boots, though I have tricked it into booting, though not dependable.
One when I force it off the last bios page flashes several different bios pages and winds up back at that page - seems like a clear bios software booboo.  I can sometimes force winpe to boot.

Huge thanks for all you folks looking in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shadowsports]

Kris44,
Maybe I'm not understanding your last post (description).  You are seeing your BIOS pages flashing or flickering and changing between different menu's without you pressing keys? Did I read that right?

[Kris44]

FIXED, I think.

Yeah, I'm not very clear.
On certain brands (not sure which at this point), if I try to force load from the last page in BIOS, it will flash to a few different BIOS pages quickly and then wind up on the last page again - in other words it didn't like it.  But if I go to boot order and select the non-UEFI version of that brand, it works.

BIOS settings are:
Windows 8 Features "other OS"
  Boot Mode selection   "UEFI and Legacy"
  Storage Boot Option Control   "UEFI First"
Other PCI Device Rom Priority   "UEFI OpROM"

I have no idea what if anything affects anything.

But I DO find that with  F6 the boot order list is very much more touchy - it doesn't tend to remember the old stuff if I add a new one.  I finally realized that and stuck about 5 brands in and booted to BIOS and added all the UEFI and non-UEFI version of them that it offered me.  I still have to force boot on a couple of others.  It now boots Linux USB flash drives fine.

Moral - use the same brand of USB flash drive!

Thanks to all of you for looking in!!!!!!   

[dmdilks]

I tried it in QFlash and in win7 in @BIOS  Both pointedly gave me a message saying I couldn't go back and gave me no way around.

This is up to the person on flashing a bios. I myself would never use windows to flash a bios. To many things can go wrong. You should really use Q-Flash or do it in the bios itself.

[Kris44]

I tried it in QFlash and in win7 in @BIOS  Both pointedly gave me a message saying I couldn't go back and gave me no way around.

This is up to the person on flashing a bios. I myself would never use windows to flash a bios. To many things can go wrong. You should really use Q-Flash or do it in the bios itself.

I agree totally!  The only reason I tried it on windows is because QFlash gave me that pointed error message and I wondered if @BIOS would let me do it - but nope! - Yes, basically never use win for a BIOS flash if you can avoid it!