Made a mistake while updating ASUS Sabertooth Z77 Mobo BIOS. WHAT DO I DO? D=

[Funkosapien]

Right, so thought it was a pretty self explanatory process. Thought I had the whole process down pat. Thought I knew what to do. Messed it up man. Messed it up bad.

Basically. Was having framerate issues with Planetside 2. Ran a virus scan. Computer went reeeeeeal messed up on me, couldn't even load up File explorer. Did a windows 10 reset/recovery sorta thing. Seemed to be working fine. (I can go into more detail on that part of the story if necessary). Did a full reset thing (but kept files), reinstalled all my drivers (MOBO (except VGA, don't have to do VGA right cause I have a standalone card?)/GPU/Oculus Rift), reinstalled core programs. Last thing I was gonna do was reinstall BIOS. Everything 'seemed' to be working fine up until that point. Infact I had 10% less CPU load on idle than I did pre format even with all my core programs reinstalled/running.

The process I undertook was exactly as follows :

Downloaded BIOS thing for my hardware from here,
https://www.asus.com/au/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_Z77/HelpDesk_CPU/
clicked 'CPU Support', then clicked i7 3770k and go, downloaded from that. (is that the right link? Did I download the right one?)

Used the renamer program thing here (windows 10 64 - > BIOS utilities) :
https://www.asus.com/au/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_Z77/HelpDesk_Download/

ran the renamer on the updated BIOS I downloaded, put that file onto a flash drive, put flash drive into BIOS FLASHBACK slot on back of motherboard.

Restarted, pressed DEL to access BIOS menu, went into advanced mode, tools tab, bios flashback tool thingy, accessed the BIOS on the flashdrive, and clicked update.

It did its thing. Said it needed to restart. Said OK. Then it sorta, went to restart. Turned itself off. Turned back on. "turned itself off again" then back on again, went to a blue screen (will detail that in a sec), every time I try n turn it off it turns back on. Left it on the BIOS screen cause it makes me less depressed than the blue screen (marginally)

Blue screen says :

Recovery Media? How do I access that? I upgraded from Windows 7 to the W10 preview build thing when W10 was in beta. I'm not even sure what happened to my windows 7 disc. Still have the key though. Is there any way I can redownload the stuff that's required? Fix something up so I don't need to reset again maybe? WHAT DO I DO? Do I just reinstall the BIOS again? Do I need to reinstall Windows? Did I make a brick out of my MOBO/CPU? WHAT DID I DO WRONG? WHAT DO I DO NOW? D=

PLZ HALP! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING! D=

Oh jesus please help, I don't want my baby to die like this. D=

edit : system specs :

MOBO : Asus Sabertooth Z77
CPU : Intel i7 3770k
GPU : nVidia GTX 770
RAM : 32gb G.Skill Ares 1866mhz

 

[rgd1101]

When you update the bios, it reset your bios setting. did you make any change on bios for windows10?

 

[Funkosapien]

What you mean change on BIOS? I can do that?

Only things I can think of changing is I had some cool picture of a mandalorean as a custom BIOS loadscreen? Was some feature of the MOBO or something to be able to do it so I followed the step by step 'exactly'.

Other thing was setting the preset 'high power mode' button as opposed to normal or power saving. Was too nervous to press anything else =p.

On both of those things, I've used both Windows 7 and 10 without problems ever since then, that was like near 2 years ago or something since I even touched any BIOS options.

And please, treat me like an idiot, when it comes to this 'under the hood' stuff, I have 'no idea'. At "all".

 

[Funkosapien]

15 minutes later. It JUST clicked what you meant man. Did I change my boot settings or something? Hell. Good question. Lemme check.

 

[Funkosapien]

Just checked boot settings, it's :

1. SSD
2. DVD drive

So wouldn't be that? D=

 

[lothdk]

Could it be, that the reset of BIOS changed your SATA setup to IDE instead of AHCI?

 

[Funkosapien]

Could it be, that the reset of BIOS changed your SATA setup to IDE instead of AHCI?

Uhh, maybe? I'll have a look.

 

[Funkosapien]

Could it be, that the reset of BIOS changed your SATA setup to IDE instead of AHCI?

I went into SATA configuration,

SATA mode selection is AHCI

S.M.A.R.T staus check is ENABLED

all the drives are listed with an option called hot plug set as DISABLED

(I don't know what any of that means btw =S)

 

[lothdk]

That would be correct with the setup you have, so sadly not the solution.

 

[rgd1101]

What the file on the BSOD screen, the screenshot is too fuzzy. Also, did you do anything to make it ran with that much RAM?

 

[Funkosapien]

What the file on the BSOD screen, the screenshot is too fuzzy. Also, did you do anything to make it ran with that much RAM?

Click the little expand screen thing in the corner, pretty blurry but I could still make it out. I retyped the major bits of the picture I took with the camera? Basically just says "your PC needs to be repaired" "File is missing or contains errors" "file: \windows\system32\winload.exe" "errorcode: 0xc000000f" "Yuo'll need to use recovery tools on your installation media"

Plz tell me you can point me in the right direction D= I run a gaming clan, got my main weekly session I'm booked in to run coming up in about 12 and a half hours, got my boys counting on me D=.

Can I download a windows 10 install disc from somewhere? And can I do that with a Windows 7 key? Would that help? Should I try reinstalling the BIOS or something? Rain dance? Anything?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-cAJRZrlA

 

[rgd1101]

You could try reinstalling windows 10 with with the 7 key. But if this is a hardware issue because you changed the bios settings, reinstall is not going to help.

are you running 4x8gb ram? can you try running just 2x8gb?

 

[Funkosapien]

You could try reinstalling windows 10 with with the 7 key. But if this is a hardware issue because you changed the bios settings, reinstall is not going to help.

are you running 4x8gb ram? can you try running just 2x8gb?

Do I need to do anything special for that? Do I just pull em out? No settings I have to change or anything? Don't have to worry about catching something on fire? Do I take out just like, the bottom pair? Or what?

edit : Downloading motherboard manual. Maybe it'll tell me which ones I can pull out on there.

Also, what if I try going back to an earlier BIOS? Maybe my old one? Would that be worth trying?

edit : yep mobo says just pull out one from each 'slot pair' or wateva, don't have to change any settings for that or nothing?

EDIT : Just tried ripping out 2 ram sticks. Same thing?

 

[Funkosapien]

Gonna roll the dice. Even though I'm super nervous about the first one, and not sure how much the second one will do. I just can't think of anything else to do D=.

Gonna try reinstalling the BIOS.

Gonna try downloading a Windows 10 disc and running recovery with it.

edit : one question, I had the windows insider build and it never questioned me post release would I still be on that build? Should I repair with windows insider build? Can I install 'over' that with the normal build?

 

[Funkosapien]

I'M FREAKING OUT MAN!

 

[Funkosapien]

Fiddled with a whole bunch of things, none of em worked. Found something that looks like it might though?

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-update/windows-crash-refresh-hard-drive-locked-unlock/a6bb04ff-5dba-4e10-a849-644cd0851bc6?auth=1

See first response, where he says to go into command prompt and type in

Bootrec /fixMBR

bootrec /fixBoot

bootrec /rebuildBCD

well I did that, first one seemed to work, second one said element not found, third one found my windows install, and said 'add installation to boot list', Yes/No/All. Uhh, do I click yes? I'm not 100% and I'm in command prompt and I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know what any of this does, and I'm scared man D=.