I've had consistent issues with two different brands of z77 motherboard. The first one is an ECS Z77H2A4. The second is my new ASRock z77 Xtreme 4. I had the ECS first and it has developed the problem of having BIOS burn in. It will only accept my five terabyte HDD (which it forces me to partition to two terabytes and leave the remaining space unusable,) as the boot drive. When I upgraded to the z77 Xtreme 4 last night I tried immediately to switch it to a Windows 7 SSD, But when I tried to start it up it would only boot in safe mode. If I tried to start windows normally it would load up to my background but never load file explorer. So I tried to reconnect the five terabyte HDD to the new ASRock mother board and I'm suddenly getting blue screen of death corruption but the blue screen doesn't stay it just flashes for the second and the computer restarts itself. it asked me if I wanted to do launch startup repair and I did it twice and it just continues to loop.
I cannot even get to a point with the HDD where I could run check disk command to see what's wrong with it and I'm going to run SSD check disk tonight and see if maybe that can resolve some issues.
If they fail what are my other options? I really hope that this z77 extreme 4 didn't have BIOS burn in prior to my purchase and I'm hoping that that's not causing the issue.
I cannot even get to a point with the HDD where I could run check disk command to see what's wrong with it and I'm going to run SSD check disk tonight and see if maybe that can resolve some issues.
If they fail what are my other options? I really hope that this z77 extreme 4 didn't have BIOS burn in prior to my purchase and I'm hoping that that's not causing the issue.