version 4.7 pro with no add-ons

Motherboard is Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H.

Currently getting a cycle of BIOS screen, SMART report, loading operating system, automatic reboot, BIOS screen.

 

Problems started with a red ball on data hard drive.  Powered down and inserted new drive.  Booted fine and showed blue ball on new drive.  Powered down again and moved flash drive to window 7 computer to check version of preclear on flash drive.  Did not write anything to flash drive.  Moved flash drive back to server and would not boot.

 

BIOS is set 1st boot drive to  USB-FDD and Onchip SATA type is set to ACHI.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Tim

version 4.7 pro with no add-ons

Motherboard is Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H.

Currently getting a cycle of BIOS screen, SMART report, loading operating system, automatic reboot, BIOS screen.

 

Problems started with a red ball on data hard drive.  Powered down and inserted new drive.  Booted fine and showed blue ball on new drive.  Powered down again and moved flash drive to window 7 computer to check version of preclear on flash drive.  Did not write anything to flash drive.  Moved flash drive back to server and would not boot.

 

BIOS is set 1st boot drive to  USB-FDD and Onchip SATA type is set to ACHI.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Tim

 

I am making a quick response back to you without a lot of review..  I seem to recall that your particular mother has a problem with drive boot order.  If I recall correctly, anytime you add a new drive to the system, it change the boot order and the first drive it tries to boot from is the new drive.  You will have to go into the BIOS and reset the boot order again.

 

If you want more info, search the board using "Gigabyte 880GA" as your target. 

Have you checked the thumb drive on another system to see if it's still working?  I had one go bad recently.  It would boot at USB1 speed but couldn't load the config files.  On some computers, I could access it fine.  Others couldn't mount it.  Very bizarre and inconsistent behavior.  A new flash drive (and key transfer) cleared it right up.

Flash drive does boot in my windows 7 computer.

Will recheck bios later.  Did not find anything searching for motherboard.

Thanks

Trying the sixth different USB port, it decides to boot. Off to preclear.

Thanks