[FIXED]Stuck in EFI shell, nothing is working, Cant boot, cant return to bios (MSi) (Read Last reply for fix)

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So I recently turned on msi fast boot and windows 8 mode on my msi 970 gaming motherboard. Now my pc is stuck in efi shell and it wont boot. I need help badly as im starting to give up.

Things ive tried:
Turning slow mode on (idk why)
And clearing cmos (ive done this twice )
Restarting computer

And im still in efi shell
 
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FIXED: After trying to switch HDD to a different port and it not working I basically gave up. Then I saw the SWITCH on my MSi R9 270x. If Im not mistaken its the Fast Boot switch on my gpu. I switched the other way and for the heck of it restarted my computer. This time it took me right to the bios and I was able to disable MSi fast boot. Now my issue is fixed. Thanks for the (1) Suggestions
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FIXED: After trying to switch HDD to a different port and it not working I basically gave up. Then I saw the SWITCH on my MSi R9 270x. If Im not mistaken its the Fast Boot switch on my gpu. I switched the other way and for the heck of it restarted my computer. This time it took me right to the bios and I was able to disable MSi fast boot. Now my issue is fixed. Thanks for the (1) Suggestions
 
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I have Dell Optiplex 3010.
I couldn't reinstall Windows 8 on this machine.
My solution was to enter BIOS and to change from UEFI boot to Legacy boot.
After that everything was fine.
I hope this helps for someone.
Greetingz! :)
 
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1.Control alt delete/Bios Signature screen/Delete/Disable Windows 8 mode.Restart

2.Reinstall windows on new or spare HDD/SSD whatev/Re-format original HDD and reinstall transfering all old files and settings if possible.

3.Create flash bios including all drivers on an ( empty ) usb flashdrive. Power on/Navigate to bios/click lower left flash option/choose target usb,port/wait it out and cross fingers and stuff.

Windows 8 mode in MSI bios is evil. It likes to bork you for some reason. Probably Microsoft to blame not MSI.

I am a newb but these things all helped me out of a couple uefi shell exiles.
 
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I've found another solution.

In the EFI shell type 'exit' (if the keyoard's not working then just reconnect it), then it should return to the bios where you can disable the fast boot option.
 
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tried what tom cat said, typed exit, nothing happened, hit enter, screen went black, stayed that way. we manually rebooted machine, just turned it off and then on again, and it came up with "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" kind of afraid to try anything atm lol.
 
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I figured it out. If you did by accident loaded EFI shell and your pc then restarts and crashes sortly after selecting safe mode settings (as if it wishes to load) but a faint blue screen appears then it restarts and same problem.

I am using an XP Home edition package to a H71M-DGS motherboard but this should not matter so longs as you haven't formatted your HD.

Solution: If to reset CMOs manually or in BIOS load default settings does not solve your problem, and even trying a different SATA port 😛. Then look at your SATA configurations. I found that the default setting was ADCH then set it to IDE and that should allow boot to your oldish HDD. Hope this solutions helps some may not be the solution for all.
 
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Just reset the bios to default. If you can't enter bios, alter someting in your hardware like adding more ram or removing, that way bios will detect hardware change ant it will prompt to load optimized defaults and you're golden.
 
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My MSI board had a "dip" switch named "jbat1" on the lower left. This is the bios reset. Just power off, move connector over 1 pin for around 15 seconds and move back. My system booted back to bios. Hope this helps somebody. I was sweeting it for a little while.
 
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I have an MSI X99A Raider motherboard.. I solved the EFI Shell problem by enabling UEFI + Legacy in BIOS. By doing this I was able to put my Intel 750 Series SSD as the 1st boot priority, which is necessary to avoid the EFI problem. I hope that this helps.
 
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This did the trick for me. I got back to bios and was able to uncheck "windows 8/10 features" which included fast boot
 
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Have same issue here.. hopefully you can help..
Right now I'm suffering from my mistakes of Dual booting procedure....
I've managed to completely empty the Emmc / storage of my Windows tablet.
Keep booting to EFI- key in "exit" then Bios again...
main issue is that.. the bios does not have option to do Legacy as it is Default to UEFI only...
it doesnt have option to boot to anything except EFI shell.. then nothing more...
I really dont know if i will be able to revive the Tablet but i;m 100% sure that it's hardware is Good.

my tablet is... Cherry Mobile Alpha morph x32 8.1 UEFI
http://www.unbox.ph/gadget/cherry-mobile-launches-alpha-morph-affordable-10-inch-windows-8-1-tablet-with-wireless-keyboard/

you know those 2 in 1 pc like T100
 
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Just ran into this problem and there's a small battery on the msi 970 gaming next to pci 1 I powered down took out the batter powered on then powered down put the batter back in and it booted fine don't know if it's a sure fire fix better better than formatting everything and re-installing windows... This was for windows 10 by the way
 
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Thanks a million.. this helped to me

 
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This might be old topic but you just saved my life all my saved games all my files almost everything I thank you truly from my heart

 
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You boot into the EFI shell when no other boot device is available to boot, or if you BIOS is set to boot into it first (if it is possible to set that way; mine was not.) So make sure you have a boot device that is bootable (a hard disk or a thumbdrive) and make sure your BIOS is configured to boot

OTOH, if you have FastBoot enabled you may not be able to get into BIOS, as I could not on my Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807. So I removed the hard drive as someone mentioned here, and tried to figure out an EFI command to run to reset FastBoot, but nothing worked.

And then it finally hit me; remove the coin battery that is backing up the BIOS config, put the hard drive back in, reboot, press [Del], and Shazam! back into BIOS.! Hope this helps someone else who needs the same thing.
 
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