"BLInitializeLibrary Failed 0xc000009a" Gigabyte Motherboard

[wordofmitch]

Hi there,

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK and just recently one of my hard drives dropped out. So I took the HDD out and ran it in another machine to determine if i needed to scrap the HDD. Anyway, I solved that issue and put the HDD back into my machine plugging it in using the same cable and the same SATA port on the mobo. When I booted next the machine chugged a tonne. It took a full 2 minutes for the machine to just get through the motherboard splash screen and it chugged again when I got into windows (W10). Whats weird is the HDD I took out isnt the OS drive, the OS drive is a 250GB Samsung SSD.

I restarted the computer and the next time I came to the mobo splash screen I was greeted with the error code listed in the title. I cleared the CMOS and reset the bios back to default, but the whole system is still chugging along.

What have I done that could have caused this and how do I fix it?

Thanks,

 

[Lutfij]

1| Can you please pass on your full system's specs?
2| Have you made sure your BIOS is up to date?
3| Is the installation of Windows 10 based off an upgrade path or an installation with a licence key?
4| Try a repair install. In some instances the error code seems to go away if you tinker with Fast Startup options in BIOS per this thread.