Boot options all messed up.

[locust lab]

Hey, I reinstalled windows 2 days ago. However, apparently the system made it so that the drive it looks for to boot up first is the USB drive I used to install it! It gets to boot up to the USB drive even when the USB isn't plugged in. If it doesn't find it, it says it's got nothing to boot to until I go into the bios and manually change it, say that it should boot from my ssd, then boot. Then it boots just fine. I have set the boot options correctly, and it acts as if it needs another boot device by doing the whole flashing white bar in between the bios and the windows install.

When looking at it in boot options, it says Sanzdisk is partition 1.
That's the USB.

What I've tried.
Going into bios and setting boot order manually. Still bypasses this, and tries to find the USB drive.

Removing usb, still searches for it.

Disabling all other devices other than the boot drive. Still searches for the USB drive.

System:
I5 7600k
Gigabyte z270x ultra gaming revision F8 on the bios
Avexiir ddr4 ram 2400mhz 16gb
Gtx1080 FE
Windows 10 pro


How the heck do I fix this :/
It wants to boot from the USB no matter what

 

[kerberos_20]

efi is caching boot records, u may need to clean it
go to bios, go to boot tab and u should see in there something like boot override, select efi shell
u should see command line now
To dump a list of current boot entries:Shell> bcfg boot dump -v
remove which u dont need
To remove the 1st boot option: Shell> bcfg boot rm 0
To remove the 2nd boot option: Shell> bcfg boot rm 1
and so on

this will not change anything on your harddrives / usb
feel free to delete all u see, bios will recache it once u boot up from drive

 

[locust lab]

efi is caching boot records, u may need to clean it
go to bios, go to boot tab and u should see in there something like boot override, select efi shell
u should see command line now
To dump a list of current boot entries:Shell> bcfg boot dump -v
remove which u dont need
To remove the 1st boot option: Shell> bcfg boot rm 0
To remove the 2nd boot option: Shell> bcfg boot rm 1
and so on

this will not change anything on your harddrives / usb
feel free to delete all u see, bios will recache it once u boot up from drive

Hey I havent been able to see any option like this. In fact, I cant even go into any kind of "shell" module.

 

[kerberos_20]

just checked your manuals, your boot overide resides in save & exit menu
manuals doesnt show whats inside

 

[locust lab]

Yeah but I don't want to have to boot override everyt8me the computer restarts. That's the issue.
Is there a way to remove the cache otherwise????

 

[locust lab]

just checked your manuals, your boot overide resides in save & exit menu
manuals doesnt show whats inside

Okay, it boots to SSD now. However, it is still showing "invisible" (Cached) options in the boot order, and still does the white flashing input bar and is not just booting straight to it. Instead its going through a timeout function (30 seconds) or so and then the PC boots.

The reason I want to fix this is it seems its having some issues when it comes to gpu support and the like.

Disk managment states
Disk 0 (WD 1 terabyte hdd) 2 partitions (1system reserved 549mbs) (2 file NTSF partition)
Disk 1 (SSD PNY 240gb) 1 partition

When I fully reinstalled windows 10, I deleted all partitions, partitioned the HDD for NTSF, and partitioned the SSD for NTSF windows then installed windows on the SSD. Why is it showing the system reserve partition for the HDD, and why wont it allow me to completely remove or reset the bios? I tried that too btw.

 

[kerberos_20]

did u run that shell?

 

[locust lab]

did u run that shell?

There is no "shell" option anywhere in the bios

 

[RBuczynski]

you might have windows in oem or pre-installed. When so it doesn't allow you to delete hidden partition, when it keep all it's files, unless you install windows from other source (dvd/stick).
Maybe putting ssd sata cable to sata_0 on your motherboard will help? Simply swap the cables for hdd and ssd (their end connections to the mb matters).

 

[locust lab]

did u run that shell?

no way to click boot override. you just choose a different boot device to boot to.

 

[kerberos_20]

did u run that shell?

There is no "shell" option anywhere in the bios

okay
https://www.easyuefi.com/index-us.html
u can do same thing in windows, with that trial app u can manage your uefi boot options

 

[locust lab]

you might have windows in oem or pre-installed. When so it doesn't allow you to delete hidden partition, when it keep all it's files, unless you install windows from other source (dvd/stick).
Maybe putting ssd sata cable to sata_0 on your motherboard will help? Simply swap the cables for hdd and ssd (their end connections to the mb matters).

Ill test this shortly, i was hoping not to have to, but ive heard that sata cable placement matters

Thing is, before I reinstalled windows (it is an OEM version) (and its mine, i bought and paid for it.) it was working just fine. I just reinstalled to clean up all the extra files I had left laying all around the computer.

 

[locust lab]

did u run that shell?

There is no "shell" option anywhere in the bios

okay
https://www.easyuefi.com/index-us.html
u can do same thing in windows, with that trial app u can manage your uefi boot options

apparently it is a Legacy Bios

 

[RBuczynski]

If I remember it correctly, if the oem is preinstalled, you might not be able to get rid of it from installer level.
You should be able, regardless of cables, to set any queue in uefi you like.
Try this shell option, maybe that will solve problem. I think that back in bios days, it was just simpler and easier.

 

[locust lab]

did u run that shell?

There is no "shell" option anywhere in the bios

okay
https://www.easyuefi.com/index-us.html
u can do same thing in windows, with that trial app u can manage your uefi boot options

which should i remove
https://imgur.com/a/Cozplm8

 

[locust lab]

If I remember it correctly, if the oem is preinstalled, you might not be able to get rid of it from installer level.
You should be able, regardless of cables, to set any queue in uefi you like.
Try this shell option, maybe that will solve problem. I think that back in bios days, it was just simpler and easier.

There is no shell option

 

[locust lab]

If I remember it correctly, if the oem is preinstalled, you might not be able to get rid of it from installer level.
You should be able, regardless of cables, to set any queue in uefi you like.
Try this shell option, maybe that will solve problem. I think that back in bios days, it was just simpler and easier.

This is the exact BIOs I have. With all the options displayed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CLXfZeGGyY

 

[RBuczynski]

hm, weird. Maybe there's some jumper on hdd drive? SSD do not have it, but I've seen some places for it even on disk with sata interface. If not, maybe other sata on mb will work?

 

[locust lab]

[Qoute] hm, weird. Maybe there's some jumper on hdd drive? SSD do not have it, but I've seen some places for it even on disk with sata interface. If not, maybe other sata on mb will work? [/qoute]

Tried your solution of moving the drives. No dice. Not sure what you mean about jumper. Do you think removing the cmos battery will fix this?

 

[locust lab]

hm, weird. Maybe there's some jumper on hdd drive? SSD do not have it, but I've seen some places for it even on disk with sata interface. If not, maybe other sata on mb will work?

Should I remove the CMOS?
Tried moving drives, no dice