May 12, 20179 yr 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!
May 12, 20179 yr 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.
May 12, 20179 yr Author 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?
May 12, 20179 yr 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. Edited May 12, 20179 yr by Benson
May 12, 20179 yr Author 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.
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