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Hey guys. This isn't actually my own board, but someone asked me to help him. He has an ECS B250H4-M20 mobo. But, the mobo does not recognize M.2 at all. It does detect SATA SSDs and hard drives. So I tried updating the BIOS which didn't work, then I tried getting 2 different motherboards of the...

I am trying to enter the bios to change fan speeds, but although I am spamming the delete key at boot I can't enter the bios. When I checked the system information for the bios version, it showed legacy. I went to look for a new version of the bios which I downloaded, but I can't install it...

Hi all, So, my current desktop setup is Win 10 Pro with 2 internal drives: a HDD, 2Tb C: drive; a 1Tb SSD (Sabrent brand) G: drive. I bought EaseUS Partition Manager Pro to migrate the OS, but I get the message: "Boot disk cannot be selected as target". Is there a way to make the Sabrent...

'Eyo guys, I'm encountering a big problem with an ASUS TUF FX504GM. Basically, I've upgraded my RAM on this laptop, and I have to set the DRAM and Frequency. Normally I would do that via the BIOS or UEFI in this case, however there is no XMP, DRAM Settings or AI Tweaker options under the...

I have Windows 10 installed in SSD in legacy mode (not UEFI). I have connected it to gigabyte brix. When I turn on the Brix, its does not boot from SSD. Instead it gives me UEFI shell: When I type exit and hit enter in above shell prompt, it seems to take me to BIOS which lists SSD is...

I have an ageing i7 PC and decided to make start on replacing it with another PC I got an i5 9400F which I was surprised has more cores than the old i7, though less threads It was a bargain with Win 10 already installed. But it had a small SSD so i purchased a PNY 480Gb at the same time with...

My Lenovo Thinkpad P40 runs Windows 10. I wanted to try out Linux for the first time, so I made a bootable USB drive and attempted to boot from that USB. After using Fn+F12 to access the boot menu, I selected the USB HDD but the screen just flashed black and then went back to the boot menu. I...

Hello, i have big problem 1 year ago IT guy reinstall windows and set UEFI admin user password now i want reinstall windows and cant acces bios with admin rights or BOOT from USB how can i reset that password without laptop disband. i search and read 3 hours in google cant find solution for this...

Hello! I've been dealing with this for quite sometime now. My specs are these: Asrock B450 Prime Steel Legend Ryzen 5 2600 Corsair Vengeance DDR4 LPX 2x8gb 3200MHz I have both sticks in their respective slots for a dual channel setup (A2/B2), and I'm trying to make them run that way. The...

So i were going to install windows on my new m.2 ssd, at first it recognized my USB, but i could not install windows because i had to change some settings in the boot menu before the windows installer could. I turned off the CSM and changed the OS type to Other OS in the secure boot menu. When i...

Hey, I upgraded from a 4690K Gigabyte Z97 to 3700X MSI B550 and I cant get into the BIOS even though everything works fine. Tried the Windows Advanced Boot force UEFI, spamming delete also doesn't work. No formatting has been done to my SSDs. I was wondering if I did something wrong or did I...

Hello! I am currently waiting for this MOBO to arrive https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-b450-f-gaming/p/N82E16813119140?Item=N82E16813119140&utm_medium=TraEmail&utm_source=TEMC-New-Order-Confirmation-USA&cm_mmc=TEMC-New-Order-Confirmation-USA-_-N82E16813119140 And I'm pairing with a ryzen...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm not really sure where else this kind of thing can go. Please feel free to advise on what I can do here or if there is anywhere more specific I should be posting this. So here's the story: Microsoft published a firmware update for...

Hello, I am currently building a pc for the first time but I have encountered problems with accessing the BIOS. In looking for the solution, I have come to the conclusion that the problem is potentially related to either/or my USB keyboard and MSI motherboard (see specs below). 1. Given I have...

Hello all. I recently built a computer for a friend. And used an old 950 Evo of mine for his boot drive. I wiped it clean using the formatting tool on my computer. Now whenever I try to start the computer it just goes into recovery mode. Like it thinks that windows is still installed on the...

Hello everyone. Thanks for taking a precious time helping me. I wanted to order a new RX590 Sapphire Nitro+ Limited Edition to make it work with my computer, but I've seen in some forums that I can't work on non-UEFI motherboard (which I suppose is my case). I don't have anywhere on the BIOS to...

Hey guys I just reinstall from windows 7 to windows 10 through USB device but I have a problem. By default my BIOS settings were Boot Menu Type - Normal and UEFI Boot - Disabled and I ran windows 7 without problem, now I changed them so I could run windows 10 installation through usb and after...

Hello everyone, I just upgraded my system with new M.2 SSD (nvme 250gb Samsung evo plus) and i was able to install windows 10 x64 on it and after installation everything was running smooth. Also while installing windows on M.2 SSD I physically removed all my other storage device from...

Hello, The hard drive on my friend's PC got corrupted and was having problems so we reformatted the hard drive with another PC using the command prompt on a different computer. At first it didn't work, as it is an Alienware UEFI system and apparently the drive was formatted as MBR, which the...

Hi guys, Trying to flash my bios on my Asus B450-I motherboard to an earlier bios to hopefully resolve some memory issues. I am getting the issue in Asus EZ Flash in the UEFI that says "Selected BIOS is not a proper BIOS", when trying to flash to an earlier BIOS. It will let me flash back to...

I just recently upgraded to a Ryzen 5 1600 AF and ASrock b450m-hdv r4.0. The switch worked great and everything! I thought let's go ahead and upgrade the RAM as well. So I bought 2x 8gb of 3000mhz RAM. I powered off my computer switched the RAM and everything looked fine until I saw it was...

Hi! I am trying to enable virtualization on my PC, so i have to enable it in BIOS. I can’t seem to get into my BIOS though. When i press the right key during POST, i end up on a black screen with a green cursor (which is typical for the ASUS BIOS utility for my motherboard). My monitor is...

Hey guys hows it going, here is my problem. im running MSI B450M Pro-M2 Max 16g (2*8g) corsair Vengance rgb 3200 ram with ryzen 3 3200g cpu and a gtx 1030 gpu and a pci-e 1tb ssd and a reg 1tb ssd i have just converted my system to full UEFI and went on the Msi support page for update of...

Hello! Im trying to erase my nvme ssd because Im not able to boot into any of my windows usb installation disks, they always freeze or not boot at all. I read somewhere its because the windows is corrupted and the drive has to be cleaned. It makes sense because after I shut down the laptop while...

MSI B450 Mortar MAX Ryzen 5 3600 For the first time in my life about to get a decent gaming machine, so i don't want to phuck something up. Do i have to update the bios before i install windows or im gonna be ok without doing so? Is the bios on the motherboard ok out of the box? Also, when...

Hello all! So i have this laptop and i am trying to install windows from a boot pen. The problem is it gives me the error "your pc ran into a problem" (because of Kernel security...) and i cant install windows on it. I guess the last owner had some OS there or something that was not windows like...

Recently my laptop HD died, since we are on quarantine here in Brazil I couldn't find another to buy in my city, a friend kindly offered a Kingston 120gb SSD 2,5 for me, I accepted but I'm having some troubles, first, it had a Windows 8, but the drive coudn't boot in UEFI, it just blew my mind...

Hi I am running Windows 10 Pro on my laptop which only has an HDD. Recently, I bought an SSD and was trying to reinstall Windows into it when I realised that I had forgotten the password to my BIOS so that I cannot boot from the USB stick that I'm using. I know that I can just run the setup.exe...

hello so i was planning to buy gt 1030 (msi aero itx gt 1030 oc gddr5) then i searched about will it be compatible with my pc specs and i am sure i don't have any issues with my psu or cpu but the motherboard is kinda confusing a little bit and i don't know if the gt 1030 support legacy bios...

I bought an used VAIO MODEL pcg61a11u and after formating it's HDD with another pc I'm prompted with a "operating system not found" screen. I feel that the original owner changed the BIOS to legacy but I cant acces the BIOS anymore since the assist function no longer exists. what can I do...

Hi, I'm about to build my first PC in a while and because I will continue to use my current SSD, I searched around a bit for the recommended approach to take with regards to reinstalling Windows. Rather randomly I came across UEFI but found surprisingly little information about how to set up...

Mobo: MSI z370 gaming plus M.2: Kingston A2000 Just bought an M.2 SSD and I can’t get it to boot Windows 10 after going through just about every thread that i found from googling. I have updated to latest bios version, and have set «Windows 10 WHQL Support» to «UEFI» instead of «CSM», which...

So, I was poking around in my BIOS and I found the setting Intel Speed Shift Technology and was what it did and wether I should enable it. I noticed it was disabled by default. Thanks! CPU: Intel i7 7700K Motherboard: Gigabyte Z270XP SLI

Hi, This is my very first installation on UEFI I wish to install Windows 10 on my brand new SSD with UEFI and GPT. I have Windows x64 bootable iso already downloaded via media creation tool from MS.So now I have a bootable DVD/USB. My Gigabyte MB H81M-S has UEFI bios(F2, latest available on...

I recently transferred my old ssd to my new laptop which already had an ssd in it. when i try to install new windows os the laptop can't detect my old ssd (where the windows is installed) as the main boot priority and when i check it in bios settings, my old ssd is not in the boot priority...

I have two PCs, each with Windows 10 Home 64-bit linked to its own Microsoft account. Each are running Windows on a 1TB HDD right now. One I'd like to simply switch from the current HDD to another 1TB HDD, and the other I'd like to upgrade to a 2TB SSD with a UEFI-based partition. I do not have...

Good morning to those of the forum, I ask for your help on the following topic: I want to change my current GPU which is Radeon HD 4550 1GB for a GTX 1050TI 4GB GPU (model 04G-P4-6251-KR). My doubt is that it is an old team of approximately 8 to 9 years. It would be compatible with the new GPU...

I have 2 drives. Both were formatted in MBR. I was doing some googling and learned a little about GPT and since my motherboard supports UEFI (or at least I think it does. It shows "Legacy+UEFI" and "UEFI" as Boot Options) I decided to convert the destination drive to GPT after I finished cloning...

Hello. I was recently trying to update my bios on a Lenovo laptop. It didn't update coz the bios mode needs to be in UEFI. So i have to go through MBR 2 GPT so that i could switch to UEFI. My first attempt failed coz i had 4 mbr partitions on my only one installed hard disk. So i deleted the...

Hello, I have a Dell Precision T3500 with an X5650, 12GB DDR3 RAM and a Quadro 4000. I am looking to upgrade to a gaming GPU which I will use for both gaming but also CAD programs such as Autocad and Inventor. So based on numerous variables I have decided to go with a used GTX 950. I wonder if...