troubleshooting Custom made PC not booting correctly

[Emanuel Kory]

I have newly made a custom PC that is having some problems booting. Every time I turn it on is come up with the American Megatrends screen and them once I press F1 it moves on to the BIOS and I have to manually select which device I want the PC to boot from even though I have my SSD boot drive at the highest boot priority in the BIOS. If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it. Here are my specs i7 6700k, Asus Z170 Deluxe motherboard,  16gb ddr4 ram, WD 2tb HDD, 250gb Samsung SSD, 750 Watt Corsair power supply, ROG GTX 1080, Corsair H100i 

[kb5zue]

When you put the machine together did you install Windows on the drive using the Windows Media Creation tool?  It's possible the computer sees the drive as drive C, but is Drive C "bootable"?  There is a possibility the drive is not bootable so the machine just sees it as another drive.

 

My attempt to solve the problem would be to download/create the Windows Media Creation tool then use that to create your bootable Drive C.  When creating the bootable SSD, turn off the machine and disconnect all drives with the exception of the SSD then use the USB flash drive created by the Media Creation Tool.  That way you make sure there are no conflicts with other devices when making your bootable SSD.  The Media Creation Tool can be found at:

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-create-installation-media

 

After doing this, then turn off the machine and reconnect your other drives.

 

Good Luck, let me know how it works.