Where have I gone wrong?

thecoreycolak · September 30, 2015

Basically, I'm having issues with my start up. Currently have my OS installed on an Intel 750 PCIe SSD; mobo's a Gigabyte Gaming 7 z170x, running a 6700k. I'm having an inconvenience in terms of how my PC boots.

As you can see, on normal boot after a shutdown I get the first error message. I have to reboot and get into bios, second one is my bios settings; from here I have to save and exit.

So on a normal boot, I always enter bios and just spam f10 and save and exit. When I restart my computer from windows, I dont get any hassle. What have I done wrong?

Mumpka · September 30, 2015

Is the SSD selected as the boot drive in le bios?

Analog · September 30, 2015

Basically, I'm having issues with my start up. Currently have my OS installed on an Intel 750 PCIe SSD; mobo's a Gigabyte Gaming 7 z170x, running a 6700k. I'm having an inconvenience in terms of how my PC boots.

As you can see, on normal boot after a shutdown I get the first error message. I have to reboot and get into bios, second one is my bios settings; from here I have to save and exit.

So on a normal boot, I always enter bios and just spam f10 and save and exit. When I restart my computer from windows, I dont get any hassle. What have I done wrong?

This is not really a motherboard related issue, but software... Anyway, the problem is that you have not selected Windows Boot Manager as primary boot device in the BIOS. I used to have this same problem when I upgraded to my new SSD two weeks ago. If you have and it is still doing this, this can also be caused when you have two drives plugged in the board when you are installing windows. Sometimes files get dump on the secondary drive as well and this causes a problem.

thecoreycolak · September 30, 2015

... Anyway, the problem is that you have not selected Windows Boot Manager as primary boot device in the BIOS...

If you check out my Imgur link, I'm fairly certain that I have Windows Boot Manager selected as my #1 priority slot. Is there something I'm missing?

EDIT: When I installed my OS, I only have my PCIe SSD installed.

Analog · September 30, 2015

If you check out my Imgur link, I'm fairly certain that I have Windows Boot Manager selected as my #1 priority slot. Is there something I'm missing?

The link only shows that your PC can't figure out where the boot files are. If you have installed windows through UEFI, then you need Windows Boot Manager as first drive. If not then your SSD is first. Double check that pls. This is most probably the source of your problems. If this doesn't help, just clear the CMOS and restart. This will correct anything that got messed up in your boot order and just don't touch it again. This is what happened to me and what I did. The only way to fix it completely is a fresh install of Windows where you have only one drive installed - the one on which you are loading the OS. Any secondary drives should not be connected to the board during Windows installation, because sometimes problems like this do happen and it is just a safe way to prevent them.