Hello,

 

I have googled and read posts about people with similar issues but their tricks are not working for me. Basically what the title says, when I safely restart via the dashboard nothing but a black screen displays and I can't reach the web UI from another machine. When I do a hard reset I get the UEFI Bios press F2/DEL to enter window which I can jump into. My motherboard is an ASUS TUF Gaming Z790-Plus WiFi D4. My USB stick is a Samsung BAR Plus 64GB I used the unraid usb flash creator on windows and Allow UEFI boot was checked (it's defaulted to checked). The folder also appears to be named correctly, here is the root of the drive:
 

 

On the front page of the UEFI BIOS the USB stick shows right up and you can select it and boot into it:

 

In Advanced Mode which is really just the BIOS it's the only option you can select as a boot device:

 

 

Fast Boot is disabled, I was really hoping that would do the trick but I still got stuck on the black screen after saving the change and restarting. I then had to do a hard reboot to get back to UEFI BIOS and select the disk to book things back up so I could check that folder name on the flash drive and make this post. 

 

Thank you!!!! 

 

Suggestions I've received so far:

1. Disable Secure Boot Control

2. Try different USB ports

3. Try a USB 2.0 Port -> Problem: only have these on the front. Solution: get some sort of internal header like this https://www.amazon.com/SinLoon-Female-Motherboard-Header-Adapter-Dual/dp/B0878S6BD5/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=internal+usb+header&qid=1695556674&sr=8-4

 

I am currently clearing a disk and have some operations going but if things settle down I will shut down and give this another go. Really want to get this problem solved so I can move the KB+M and Monitor out of the basement. 

On 9/23/2023 at 10:10 AM, manofoz said:

Fast Boot is disabled, I was really hoping that would do the trick

To be honest, symptoms still match fast boot issue. I really hope LT can overcome this problem.

 

If you confirm BIOS setting really save, then I would suggest you update Intel ME firmware Version 16.1.27.2176v2_S, but this seems need update under Windows ( may need manual command )

Edited September 24, 20232 yr by Vr2Io

I have a windows VM, could I use that to update Intel ME firmware Version? I did verify fast boot was disabled on subsequent retries. 

 

Edit: I don't think the VM will work. I installed My Asus to see if it would detect the motherboard and it does not seem to:

Edited September 24, 20232 yr by manofoz

5 hours ago, Vr2Io said:

To be honest, symptoms still match fast boot issue. I really hope LT can overcome this problem.

 

If you confirm BIOS setting really save, then I would suggest you update Intel ME firmware Version 16.1.27.2176v2_S, but this seems need update under Windows ( may need manual command )

 

Could I boot from a Win 11 flash drive, install the update, then boot back into the unRAID flash drive? 

1 hour ago, manofoz said:

Could I boot from a Win 11 flash drive

If you boot into Windows should fine should fine.

 

Few days ago I try update the ME firmware on Asus mobo, the program always prompt "check MEI driver" and not continue, so I use command prompt to update then it work.

 

I always use NVMe to PCIe adapter to boot up different OS because fact plug in / out.

Update - I was able to get the USB to boot automatically after breaking everything. I simply decided to try a new USB port, a USB 2.0 one. The startup hung on "Unable to enumerate USB device". I tried a few other new USB ports and kept hitting that error. I then went back to the origional port and booted without toching anything and it started right up no problem. I am very confused, can you not change the USB port 

For quick boot problem, if you change different port it will success boot in 1st time, but if reboot then problem will happen again.

Edited September 25, 20232 yr by Vr2Io

I have the same problem. I can't access my data. Are any of the developers solving this problem?

This helped me tremendous - I had fast boot enabled in BIOS and disabling that, fixed it for me.