Issue booting to windows

[Bogert Yogurt]

Hello! 

I am new to the PC scene so this might be a super easy issue for you guys to solve. But every time I go to start up my pc or restart it, it automatically boots to BIOS. My drive is in good condition because I can manually boot to bios, but its just super annoying manually booting to bios every single time. And my boot priorities are set up correctly(I think) so I'm not sure why this is doing this. I have a ASUS b550 TUF gaming motherboard with a AMD cpu. I've attached a few photos of my bios to see if that can help anyone figure this out.

 

Thanks!

[ET_Explorer]

Take out the CMOS battery for a few seconds, and put it back again. Once done, restart the computer and it should boot into Windows directly.   More Info .

[Bogert Yogurt]

Tried taking out the CMOS battery for a few seconds and re putting it into its socket, Still boots to BIOS

[GoodBytes]

All I can think is that your drive has been installed for legacy-BIOS based system, and your system is set to UEFI, or the reverse.

When the UEFI is set into its Legacy mode (CSM enabled, or UEFI set to Legacy/Disabled mode), it emulates the old BIOS. As such, it can only interact with drives formatted as MBR. As for UEFI based system (CSM Disabled and UEFI is enabled) can only interact with drives formatted as GPT.

 

So, I am thinking it boots the system up, fails to detect the OS, returns to the UEFI.

Now you pick you drive as non-UEFI, and NOW it goes "Oh, you meant to boot as BIOS legacy mode, Ok! Switching to BIOS legacy mode for this time only" and proceed with the startup process....

 

That is my guess.

 

[Bogert Yogurt]

On 8/1/2022 at 7:45 PM, GoodBytes said:

All I can think is that your drive has been installed for legacy-BIOS based system, and your system is set to UEFI, or the reverse.

When the UEFI is set into its Legacy mode (CSM enabled, or UEFI set to Legacy/Disabled mode), it emulates the old BIOS. As such, it can only interact with drives formatted as MBR. As for UEFI based system (CSM Disabled and UEFI is enabled) can only interact with drives formatted as GPT.

 

So, I am thinking it boots the system up, fails to detect the OS, returns to the UEFI.

Now you pick you drive as non-UEFI, and NOW it goes "Oh, you meant to boot as BIOS legacy mode, Ok! Switching to BIOS legacy mode for this time only" and proceed with the startup process....

 

That is my guess.

 

so based off of your reply, it doesn't sound like there's a fix for this?

[GoodBytes]

47 minutes ago, Bogert Yogurt said:

so based off of your reply, it doesn't sound like there's a fix for this?

No. I said, I suspect that your system has been incorrectly configured. Configure your system correctly, and your problem should be solved.

I don't know what is wrong, to give you more details on what to do.

 

As motherboard manufactures likes to use their own wording on things, please refer to the motherboard manual.

[NunoLava1998]

When something like that happens, it usually means that it failed to boot into the OS properly; most likely, there's something wrong with your BIOS settings or with the Windows bootloader. Try to enable Legacy/CSM mode, and if that doesn't work, try to repair your bootloader. (I'm pretty sure that's possible using the Windows 10 installation media).

 

On 8/2/2022 at 2:45 AM, GoodBytes said:

So, I am thinking it boots the system up, fails to detect the OS, returns to the UEFI.

That's what's going on, yes. It can happen with an error early on in the bootloader, or more commonly, if it fails to detect one.