PLz Help ASAP Windows 8.1 won't boot!

[Goucho]

Getting ready for Windows 10 I got rid of my RAID0 drives and started afresh .......


ok guys i set up two shiny EVO 850 250GB SSD's in RAID0.
I then installed Windows 8.1 Home on it via usb stick.
I then installed drivers - chipset - lan - wifi - bluetooth - Audio - mouse, with just my mouse and keyboard attached to the 2 rear usb2 ports.
I then restarted but it went straight from post screen showing all drives green and my evo RAID0 as green and bootable then to BIOS!!
Tried 3 restarts but each time the same with all green and no errors straight to bios. The boot order had Evo drive as boot#1 with rest disabled.
Then tried RAID0 as boot#1 with Windows Boot Manager as boot#2 but still straight to BIOS!
Then hit F5 and enabled RAID checked boot order plus tried with fast boot on and then off but all still to BIOS??

BTW no errors with windows and it was working when i started installing drivers!


Plz help


Windows 8.1 Home Genuine
Asus ROG Rampage V Extreme X99 Motherboard
Intel i7 6 Core 5820K CPU
32GB Crucial 2133mhz DDR4 RAM
Ichill Herculez x 4 Air Boss GTX 980 GPU
Boot Drive = 2 x Samsung Evo 850 250GB SSD's in RAID0

 

[tolagarf]

Do you see a drive named "Intel Volume1" in your BIOS boot order? If you have a Windows 8.1 repair disk, you could try and restore the boot volume. I don't remember the shell commands however...

 

[Goucho]

I actually changed the name to something i would recognize.

This is really weird.

Before I read your reply I had another go and went into secure boot section and changed it from "windows eufi" to "other os" and it has done the trick??? Added more stuff and installed a pile of windows updates and it is happily restarting and booting error free. The thing is I never had to change that setting before? Is it because I am using a new type of ssd with 3d nand? Not got a clue why this has worked???

 

[tolagarf]

I actually changed the name to something i would recognize.

This is really weird.

Before I read your reply I had another go and went into secure boot section and changed it from "windows eufi" to "other os" and it has done the trick??? Added more stuff and installed a pile of windows updates and it is happily restarting and booting error free. The thing is I never had to change that setting before? Is it because I am using a new type of ssd with 3d nand? Not got a clue why this has worked???

Ah I see now. No I'm guessing at some point you were running your OS as UEFI (secure), but for some reason it got changed back to legacy. Normally in the BIOS "UEFI first" or "UEFI + Legacy" would have been selected, but in your case it was set to UEFI only. That is why it failed to boot since there was no secure boot table available.

It's not like it's a huge deal, most PC's run in legacy mode anyway. Only difference is that malware cannot latch itself onto the boot sector when it's in secure mode. Just make sure you have good anti-virus protection to counter that potential security risk.

 

[Goucho]

I will take a look at that thanx very much.