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I have just installed Windows 7 today and all went well but I have a problem that keeps coming back, I will try to explain.
tried to boot up windows and instead of loading it went to the bios, I entered bios and sorted out boot order and noticed fast boot was enabled so I disabled that and saves and exits... So then windows loads and all is good.
I shut down and later I come back onto my pc and try to boot up annnnd it goes to bios, I enter bios and fast boot is enabled again? I disabled it again and saves and exits and windows works.
And just now exactly the same thing has happened, why does fast boot keep turning itself on in bios when I disable it. So confused here :confused:
 
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I am getting a Post Led code showing B4 on my gigabyte board now which is usb hot plug, everything is installed correctly and I am at a loss, I am considering formatting again.
 
Specs-

CPU - 5960x
Mobo - Gigabyte Gaming 7 X99
Ram - 32gb DDR4 Avexir
Cooler - Corsair AIO
GPU's - 980ti MSI x 2
PSU - Corsair HX850 v2
Storage - 7 x Solid states

Should I try doing Windows again?
 
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Remove everything you can that's not essential for a boot into windows, main hdd only, minimum memory and anything else you can do without, see if it boots then and then add items back one by one to see if anything prompts the error again.

I'm thinking either there is a mobo fault or something is causing this and it's just not registering the right error code on the mobo.

I don't think it's windows.
 
Hi mate, well I updated a few drivers that I had missed for keyboard and such and the post led code now shows FE which I think means fully functional.. I do still have the problem with windows going to bios on boot every other boot so I will do what you said tomorrow morning and post back. thank you
 
I am still trying to get to the bottom of this, I did just noticed this when I click on one of the ssd's and goto properties. the drives says SCSI? https://s10.postimg.org/lvqyiqmwp/Capture.png
Now I have4 of them plugged into the Sata_Express ports and 1 plugged into a Sata3 port. I have 2 others out of the case at the minute, why do these show as SCSI ? is this normal or part of my issues?
 
Well I managed to get my drives sorted at least Leon, I had them in the wrong ports on the motherboard, but I have just had a bloody nightmare few hours. When I was using windows 10 I had no issues with using SLI or the B4 error which I have again! I no longer care about that B4 code as things are updated and I can't work that out, I put another copy of windows 7 on a few hours ago and all went well but when it was finished the pc was booting up without giving me a chance to enter the bios. The screen would stay black until windows was on!!! No matter what I pressed I couldn't get that screen to show anything before windows was loaded. So for the past few hours I have been looking around the net reading similar stories from people who use SLI and this happening, in most of the cases people said try another connection on the card or even onboard graphics as the bios might be trying to read from that during boot... I tried everything and nothing worked.
I must have removed my card and drives today 50 times messing with this, 20 minutes ago I did another CMOS clear and put stuff back in and I don't know why but now it is showing during boot with SLI, before I had to use any single card to show before boot. I hate pc's sometimes.!
I have now managed to get the settings right in bios, but I have a feeling this B4 code is going to turn on fastboot on it's own next time I turn my pc on and put me back at square 1, if that happens I am going to sell my 2nd 980ti. With a single card I don't get the b4 error or any problems.
 
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Well I still have trouble restarting my pc when I have 2 cards installed, when I restart the screen stays black and I have to hold the power button to turn pc off. I just had a bluescreen too, first one I have had on windows 7, it left me a minidump but I don't know how to open it. It was BC Code D1. I have the B4 post LED code all the time now and don't know what else to do. Should I just sell one of my 980ti's and cut my losses as I can't be doing with all the hassle.
 
I tried updating to the latest bios last night and both of the cards work fine on there own mate, I am going to strip the pc down right now and start testing to see if I can work out what is causing the problem. I don't think I have faulty hardware because when windows is on its fine, I just have serious problems booting in SLI and restarting.
 
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