Hello guys. I've recently bought a pre-built rig, when it arrived I installed the gpu and booted up. Everything was perfect except windows 10 was the home edition, I had a usb with windows 10 that I've installed with rufus so I thought it's easier to just reinstall. I did that and again there was no problem. But I've realized I could see the partition that windows created on my m2, I've looked up online on how to hide it and I did it. I installed all the windows updates and moved on with my day.
Couple of days later I remembered that I forgot to turn resize bar on. I got into bios and enabled it, doing this also enabled above 4g coding and -if I remember correctly- csm. Booted up fine. I installed my gpu driver, and when I restarted pc went straight into bios, I pressed save and exit without changing anything but it went into bios again. I pushed reset button, same. I turned it off completely and on again, but this time it booted up fine. This is the point I've realized I could turn the pc off and on but if I reset it it was going into a bios loop. I've never really needed to restart until installing the gpu driver so I don't know at what point I screwed up.
Here's the stupid thing I did though, I thought I could just reinstall windows 10 again to fix it. I did a custom installation, formatted the m2 and started installing. I went to kitchen and when I came back I saw it was back in bios. I started it again and this time there was no drive to install windows at all, I've looked it up main solution to this was installing the motherboards storage driver. So I downloaded my models driver, put it in the windows 10 usb. I tried installing the driver but any of the folders wasn't showing up unless I unchecked "show only compatible drivers". I installed them one by one anyway, but it didn't solve the issue.
Now if I boot the pc into bios I can see the m2 with windows installed on it, if I reinstall windows at the end it says windows has to restart and it goes back into bios, and because it restarted I don't see the m2 anymore, only the usb.
I've tried turning csm on and off, switching between windows uefi and other os, resetting back to default bios settings. I don't know if I screwed something while trying to hide the partition, or if I need to fix it through bios. Any idea how to fix it?
Much thanks in advance.
Couple of days later I remembered that I forgot to turn resize bar on. I got into bios and enabled it, doing this also enabled above 4g coding and -if I remember correctly- csm. Booted up fine. I installed my gpu driver, and when I restarted pc went straight into bios, I pressed save and exit without changing anything but it went into bios again. I pushed reset button, same. I turned it off completely and on again, but this time it booted up fine. This is the point I've realized I could turn the pc off and on but if I reset it it was going into a bios loop. I've never really needed to restart until installing the gpu driver so I don't know at what point I screwed up.
Here's the stupid thing I did though, I thought I could just reinstall windows 10 again to fix it. I did a custom installation, formatted the m2 and started installing. I went to kitchen and when I came back I saw it was back in bios. I started it again and this time there was no drive to install windows at all, I've looked it up main solution to this was installing the motherboards storage driver. So I downloaded my models driver, put it in the windows 10 usb. I tried installing the driver but any of the folders wasn't showing up unless I unchecked "show only compatible drivers". I installed them one by one anyway, but it didn't solve the issue.
Now if I boot the pc into bios I can see the m2 with windows installed on it, if I reinstall windows at the end it says windows has to restart and it goes back into bios, and because it restarted I don't see the m2 anymore, only the usb.
I've tried turning csm on and off, switching between windows uefi and other os, resetting back to default bios settings. I don't know if I screwed something while trying to hide the partition, or if I need to fix it through bios. Any idea how to fix it?
Much thanks in advance.