[SOLVED] No boot splash screen - goes straight into windows

[MxzsyXII]

I recently upgraded my pc to a B450 Tomahawk MAX, Ryzen 2600 and 16gb 3200mhz ddr4 corsair rgb ram

I am using my old windows 10 install on an Adata su800 ssd.

The problem I am having is when I boot up the PC, there is no splash screen which shows which buttons to press to go into bios, or boot menu, or setup etc. But I know to press DEL to get into the bios, and it does go into bios.

The monitor backlight goes on and off for a couple seconds, and then goes straight into to windows boot. I have windows installed in legacy mode.

What have I done wrong? Is something faulty? Should i do a fresh windows 10 install in uefi mode?

Anyone experienced this before and has fixed it?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

"I am using my old windows 10 install on an Adata su800 ssd"

You've changed the motherboard, so that existing Windows installation is now invalid.
Please perform a fresh installation of Windows.

 

[MxzsyXII]

"I am using my old windows 10 install on an Adata su800 ssd"

You've changed the motherboard, so that existing Windows installation is now invalid.
Please perform a fresh installation of Windows.

Are you sure this is the problem though? I've heard people move the same windows install with no problems

I've seen jayztwocents do it with his build with no problem

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

We always advise reinstall with a new mobo, even Windows 10.

Some people get lucky without reinstall, but then they often encounter glitches & BSODs further down the road (also depends to some extent how similar the new mobo is to the old one, so don't assume if it works for some people it should work for you as well).

Am I sure that's the problem? --- No I'm not, but I am sure that's good advice, ask any Mod here.

Furthermore bud, how you gonna know if that's the solution if you don't try it?

 

[MxzsyXII]

We always advise reinstall with a new mobo, even Windows 10.

Some people get lucky without reinstall, but then they often encounter glitches & BSODs further down the road (also depends to some extent how similar the new mobo is to the old one, so don't assume if it works for some people it should work for you as well).

Am I sure that's the problem? --- No I'm not, but I am sure that's good advice, ask any Mod here.

Furthermore bud, how you gonna know if that's the solution if you don't try it?

Thank you for the response but I now think this is a problem with the motherboard as well. Seems like there a few people also suffering with this.

Basically the VGA debug led stays on for a longer during boot than the cpu and ram leds do. Must be something wrong with the bios or the board. But on the thread I read, the OP rma'd the board and the msi engineers said it was fine, but when he got the board back it still had the same problem. Might be fixed with a bios update.