I had a gigabyte ddr4 intel 1700 motherboard which worked fine.
In my infinite wisdom I decided to update the bios in case I went to 13th gen cpu.
After that the system would only boot to Windows every second boot cycle.
I messed about with different USB inputs and sometimes without any flash drives inserted it would boot ok.
I went around and around with gigabyte support who couldnt give any answers except they couldnt see the problem at their end.
So put back old bios version and sold the motherboard on.
Bought another gigabyte motherboard but ddr5 version.
Worked great.
Updated bios to latest version and same problem again !
Then it got worse and would only boot every second boot cycle despite no flash drives connected.
Got in touch with gigabyte again and same routine, cant see problem at their end.
So decided to go through different bios's to find which one the problem started with.
So went from version F2 through to F5.
Each time bios would work ok then to my surprise even latest version started to work !
Stepping through the bios's seems to have fixed the problem but I cant see why as each has a different file.
But PC is working fine now so will see how it goes.
And the latest bios hasnt been updated its still same date on the file.
In my infinite wisdom I decided to update the bios in case I went to 13th gen cpu.
After that the system would only boot to Windows every second boot cycle.
I messed about with different USB inputs and sometimes without any flash drives inserted it would boot ok.
I went around and around with gigabyte support who couldnt give any answers except they couldnt see the problem at their end.
So put back old bios version and sold the motherboard on.
Bought another gigabyte motherboard but ddr5 version.
Worked great.
Updated bios to latest version and same problem again !
Then it got worse and would only boot every second boot cycle despite no flash drives connected.
Got in touch with gigabyte again and same routine, cant see problem at their end.
So decided to go through different bios's to find which one the problem started with.
So went from version F2 through to F5.
Each time bios would work ok then to my surprise even latest version started to work !
Stepping through the bios's seems to have fixed the problem but I cant see why as each has a different file.
But PC is working fine now so will see how it goes.
And the latest bios hasnt been updated its still same date on the file.
I got caught out once before with bios changes.
I built a new pc and it would not boot.
Turns out with a new pc the bios has to go through a memory training cycle.
It was taking ages so I though the pc had a problem and turned it off.
On the last try I just let it go and it eventually booted on its own.
I built a new pc and it would not boot.
Turns out with a new pc the bios has to go through a memory training cycle.
It was taking ages so I though the pc had a problem and turned it off.
On the last try I just let it go and it eventually booted on its own.