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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Kris44 on December 30, 2015, 03:19:19 pm
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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
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Just asking were you having a problem before the update and why did you update?
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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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?
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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!!!!!! :)
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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.
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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!