Hi Everyone,
Hoping that one of you knowledgeable persons out there can help with this one. My google foo is letting me down.
Upgraded my gaming rig to Win10 last weekend. A bit hazy on the next part but I think everything was fine until I installed the chipset drivers for my motherboard (Gigabyte X79-UD3 running BIOS F16). Since which my machine won't boot from cold first time. My Windows 10 install is a clean one which I did from install media on a USB stick after first upgrading. When I did the clean install I deleted the previous partitions from my boot drive and then let it do its thing. I'm running Win10 64bit home.
This is what my disk management looks like, drive 2 is the O/S drive.
In the BIOS the drive is showing with both SATA and UEFI options, which is new on me and something I didn't have under my previous Win7 install. PC will only boot from the UEFI option, if I try SATA I get a message to install/connect a valid boot medium or words to that effect.
I've tried loading the optimized defaults and setting everything I can find to UEFI only but it doesn't make any difference. What happens at power on is that the BIOS/Gigabyte UltraDurable splash screen comes up, I get the circling white dots at the bottom of the screen as though windows is starting to load and then my screens go blank and nothing. The screens are still receiving a signal at this point. If I then hit the reset button it will boot to windows. If I'm in windows and restart my PC it is fine.
My PC hardware consists of:
x79-UD3 | i7 4930K | 16GB(4x4) quad channel Ripjaws 1600Mhz | Corsair AX850 | 2x GTX780 | 128GB Crucial M4 SSD, 240GB Samsung Evo 840 SSD, WD Green 1TB HDD | LG blu-ray writer | custom water cooling
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks Stephen
Hoping that one of you knowledgeable persons out there can help with this one. My google foo is letting me down.
Upgraded my gaming rig to Win10 last weekend. A bit hazy on the next part but I think everything was fine until I installed the chipset drivers for my motherboard (Gigabyte X79-UD3 running BIOS F16). Since which my machine won't boot from cold first time. My Windows 10 install is a clean one which I did from install media on a USB stick after first upgrading. When I did the clean install I deleted the previous partitions from my boot drive and then let it do its thing. I'm running Win10 64bit home.
This is what my disk management looks like, drive 2 is the O/S drive.
In the BIOS the drive is showing with both SATA and UEFI options, which is new on me and something I didn't have under my previous Win7 install. PC will only boot from the UEFI option, if I try SATA I get a message to install/connect a valid boot medium or words to that effect.
I've tried loading the optimized defaults and setting everything I can find to UEFI only but it doesn't make any difference. What happens at power on is that the BIOS/Gigabyte UltraDurable splash screen comes up, I get the circling white dots at the bottom of the screen as though windows is starting to load and then my screens go blank and nothing. The screens are still receiving a signal at this point. If I then hit the reset button it will boot to windows. If I'm in windows and restart my PC it is fine.
My PC hardware consists of:
x79-UD3 | i7 4930K | 16GB(4x4) quad channel Ripjaws 1600Mhz | Corsair AX850 | 2x GTX780 | 128GB Crucial M4 SSD, 240GB Samsung Evo 840 SSD, WD Green 1TB HDD | LG blu-ray writer | custom water cooling
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks Stephen
