cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Bios 2105 not booting while "Fast Boot" is on.

Nodens
Level 16
As the title suggests Fast Boot is not working here. If it is enabled (with any suboptions) the boot process gets stuck on Windows loading logo. This happened with Win7 and now with Win8 after upgrade to MSDN Enterprise version. At the Windows logo the system is not actually frozen as the circles are still moving, ad infinitum. Debug led shows AA and if I reset the system it gets stuck before any sign of POST with Debug Code 64 and BOOT_DEVICE Led lit. Only way to get past it is fully discharging power, then system boots with "F1 failed overclock" output. If I enter UEFI and disable Fast Boot, it boots properly.

The BOOT_DEVICE led makes me take a wild guess that this could be relevant to the LSI Megaraid 9260CV-8i controller I am using. I am not able to test without the controller present because every drive on this rig is part of a RAID array and I have no other drives available. Also because this is my game development platform which is constantly in use it can only have minimum downtime. The RAID controller is UEFI compliant and I'm using CSM options to load its UEFI OpROM. CPU is 3930K. This happens with stock settings.
RAMPAGE Windows 8/7 UEFI Installation Guide - Patched OROM for TRIM in RAID - Patched UEFI GOP Updater Tool - ASUS OEM License Restorer
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't!

RealBench Developer.
4,811 Views
6 REPLIES 6

R4E3960X
Level 10
Please remove LSI Raid away from your system. Try again, It will be fine. :cool: But due the Intel SATA/RAID ROM 3.0.0.1085 came with 2105 BIOS was Jurassic age. You can't Optimize and SSD on Windows 8 Enterprise at all. :rolleyes:
Intel Core i7 3960X 😮 C2 SR0KF 😮 @3.3GHz ASUS RAMPAGE IV EXTREME BIOS 3602 03/15/2013 16 GB GSKILL ZL 9-9-9-24-1T @1600MHz Quad Channel HIS HD7979 1050MHz GPU 1500MHz DDR5 120GB OCZ VERTEX 3 SATA 6Gbps ASUS 24X DVD Corsair AX750 WINDOWS 8 PRO X64 6.2.9200.16384 RELEASE😮

Nodens
Level 16
Removing the LSI Raid card is not really an option. I can live without Fast Boot:) I am just reporting the issue to the UEFI developers. This is a high end RAID card and others with similar cards could have similar issues. I can claim no knowledge regarding the implementation of Fast Boot (I barely understand how it works) so perhaps it's some sort of incompatibility with the card's UEFI driver or OpROM that a firmware upgrade from LSI will fix but I'm reporting it so it can be checked because something else could be amiss.
RAMPAGE Windows 8/7 UEFI Installation Guide - Patched OROM for TRIM in RAID - Patched UEFI GOP Updater Tool - ASUS OEM License Restorer
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't!

RealBench Developer.

lenehan
Level 10
May be the fast boot option by pass pre boot self test and your card required some self pre boot test imstruction to complete the boot process.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Exact same problem here with 2105.

Maybe I will boot properly with FAST BOOT on 1 out of 50 times. FAST BOOT off did the trick for me too.

Everything is at default, 3930, no fancy raid, just a Plextor M3P, 32Gb of Corsair 2133 (that never worked at that speed), and crossfire of 7970, and Corsair keyboard and mouse.

lenehan
Level 10
It appear to me could be the RAM that causing the issue. Trying manually set your RAM timing for 2133, set the correct voltage for your RAM to run at 2133. Check the VCCSA and VTT recommended by Corsair.

You have to try yourself. This board will work very welll if you tame it to.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Nodens
Level 16
After further investigation I am not entirely sure Fast Boot is the only issue here. Something is wrong with CSM/UEFI driver/OpROM support in both 2003 and 2015 that I tested. To elaborate:

After further testing it seems that even with Fast Boot off (which plainly refuses to work and keeps loading Windows forever) I had a constant appearance of Debug Code 64 upon REBOOT. Even if rebooting from saving UEFI settings. The only way to recover from it was discharing power entirely from the board. Upon first boot it would work but upon any subsequent boot it would get stuck at Debug Code 64. Troubleshooting steps included clearing the CMOS several times and reflashing 2015. Nothing worked. I downgraded via Flashback method to 2003 and noticed the exact same behaviour. Downgraded via flashback to 1404 and everything is working as intended.

After doing a little research and reading this document from Intel:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/unified-extensible-firmware-inter...

And this Microsoft white paper:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463092.aspx

And considering that Debug Code 64 is CPU DXE initialization step I'm fairly certain that there is a problem somewhere in the CSM/UEFI driver/OpRom support as UEFI Driver loading happens during the DXE phase and CSM configures what is loaded/initialized (UEFI driver or Legacy OpROM). This looks like bigger than what I initially thought. With version 1404's option of just selecting EFI-Compatible option (can't recall the exact name right now) for the optional ROMs it works great.
RAMPAGE Windows 8/7 UEFI Installation Guide - Patched OROM for TRIM in RAID - Patched UEFI GOP Updater Tool - ASUS OEM License Restorer
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't!

RealBench Developer.