Blinking Cursor on Boot

[veritas2884]

I upgraded my motherboard, cpu and ram. I to a GA H-170-N Wifi. It is a board that I read others in the forum had no issues with.

 

However, when I put the flash drive i've been using in to boot, after the bios splash page I just get a blinking cursor and it never fully boots.

 

I tried the drive back in the old system and a in a virtualbox and it works fine. I believe it must be a setting I am missing in the bios, I disabled the UEFI and set the drive to FFD. I get the option in the boot menu to boot to UEFI:SANDISK and SANDISK. I make sure that SANDISK is set as the priority and I have manually selected to boot from it as well, same result. 

 

If I use UEFI one it goes straight back to the bios. The motherboard is fully functional as I have a windows drive I can boot and run form it without issue.

 

Any help would be excellent! 

[unevent]

Use a USB 2.0 slot and don't select the 'UEFI:' option for the USB flash.  Plug in the flash drive in USB 2.0 slot and reboot/turn on and go into BIOS.  Under boot option priorities you should be able to see a menu of connected devices (press Enter?) and select the non-UEFI option for the flash drive.  May have to restore defaults if you have changed a lot during the troubleshooting process.

[veritas2884]

1 hour ago, unevent said:

Use a USB 2.0 slot and don't select the 'UEFI:' option for the USB flash.  Plug in the flash drive in USB 2.0 slot and reboot/turn on and go into BIOS.  Under boot option priorities you should be able to see a menu of connected devices (press Enter?) and select the non-UEFI option for the flash drive.  May have to restore defaults if you have changed a lot during the troubleshooting process.

Thank you for the reply. I have tried each of your suggestions. I have tried all usb ports on the motherboard. Same result. 

 

Any other place to turn?

[Vr2Io]

set the drive to FFD ? I think you means FDD (emulating USB-FDD).

I don't think emulating USB-FDD was correct. In general, I always let it be default AUTO, never touch this setting.

[veritas2884]

25 minutes ago, Benson said:

set the drive to FFD ? I think you means FDD (emulating USB-FDD).

I don't think emulating USB-FDD was correct. In general, I always let it be default AUTO, never touch this setting.

Thank you both for your help. Auto didn't work for me, but hard drive did. I am up and running! Thanks for pointing me to the issue. 

[Vr2Io]

Good news.