Boot problem Gigabyte z77

B&W · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:15

Hi, I have a Z77X-D3H that's been playing up recently.

I booted it up the other day and it wouldn't boot into windows.

It came up with a Binitaliaze library failed oxcoob error.

I remember this kind of thing happened before once, so I tried to reinstall windows on a different drive today. And it boots up the USB says its installing.

Once it restarts it comes up with generic error "reboot and select proper boot device"

I have flashes bios to latest version, ran the utilities in the windows usb install.

No luck so far, motherboard dead or something wrong in settings?

Minibiker · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:21

Can you get into BIOS to check if the boot sequence is correct and selecting your device

bremen1874 · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:25

Strange behaviour is often caused by failing memory.

B&W · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:40

Minibiker said:
Can you get into BIOS to check if the boot sequence is correct and selecting your device

Yes it's definitely correct.

Minibiker · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:42

B&W said:
Yes it's definitely correct.

Hmmm, could it possibly be a corrupt Windows file during install? Did you do the fresh install with a new USB?

B&W · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:43

windows usb stick says startup repair couldn't repair your pc.

Rebuild BCD from command line don't work either. Says "system cannot find the path specified".

Even though it finds my windows installs.

B&W · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:44

Minibiker said:
Hmmm, could it possibly be a corrupt Windows file during install? Did you do the fresh install with a new USB?

Yes just formatted a usb stick last night and downloaded the latest install from Microsoft website.

Minibiker · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:47

B&W said:
Yes just formatted a usb stick last night and downloaded the latest install from Microsoft website.

Ahhh I see... I'm trying to think back to what I did when I had this issue... Have you got any other devices plugged in whilst installing windows?

B&W · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:48

Mouse/Keyboard and a old joystick on the USB ports.

Minibiker · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:55

B&W said:
Mouse/Keyboard and a old joystick on the USB ports.

No other storage drives? I had 2 plugged in and it went all like this... So I unplugged the one I wasn't intending on using for OS and just done a bare bones install... Once it was done I then plugged in the other device and it seemed to work....

B&W · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:58

There's 4 HDD Total. Shall I disable 3 from bios and install on the 4th?

Minibiker · 10 Oct 2019 at 21:59

B&W said:
There's 4 HDD Total. Shall I disable 3 from bios and install on the 4th?

I mean it could be worth a try... Just strip it back and have one device just so you know for sure its only going to one place, that way you can narrow down if its the problem

B&W · 10 Oct 2019 at 22:55

Minibiker said:
I mean it could be worth a try... Just strip it back and have one device just so you know for sure its only going to one place, that way you can narrow down if its the problem

Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. Windows is now freshly installed on a formatted SSD. And Have re enabled the other disks and all seems to be working. I wonder what caused this to happen, could be the OC I reckon. I'll keep it off.

Minibiker · 10 Oct 2019 at 22:59

B&W said:
Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. Windows is now freshly installed on a formatted SSD. And Have re enabled the other disks and all seems to be working. I wonder what caused this to happen, could be the OC I reckon. I'll keep it off.

That's great bud... It may be OK to do any adjustments in the BIOS now you have windows installed... Just don't push the Overclock to much etc if you go ahead with it