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  1. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Main machine down help needed


    I thought I had posted a thread about four hours ago but obviously it did not send.

    So quick version my main machine - Ivy Bridge with an Asus P8Z77-V with an i5 3660K 8GB RAM (2400) SSD boot drive NVidia GTX 650Ti card etc running 7 Home.

    I started it up today after a very ling break and it booted eventually but in a very strange way into Windows. Now the machine has been acting strange for a while so I decided to run SFC and a chkdsk on it and now all I can get on power up is the screen telling me to go into the BIOS and that the CPU fan has an error and it keeps automatically changing the boot option to the optical drive and not the Windows boot manager or just the SSD which is the only drive I have hooked up at the moment .
    I have been in the BIOS - not that I understand it a great deal enough to clock and stuff but everything seemed to be as I left them. I told it to ignore the CPU fan speed because the CPU is obviously running because the cooling rad and cooler head are just warm to the touch.
    Have tried setting to the default BIOS settings.
    However whatever I have tried like changing fast boot and bits I sort of understand a bit it still boots to that screen telling me to go into the BIOS. RAM is ok I think because I just get the one beep for it likes always.

    Any ideas greatly appreciated because I am at a loss as to what to try and the only option it seems is to clean install and I do have a lot of stuff on this machine plus accessing a replacement baord would be about impossible as I can imagine as also with that CPU.
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  2. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
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    Hi,
    Have you installed Linux on this machine ever ?
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  3. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Hello Mike no mate not to my recollection - I have made Ubuntu and Linux bootable disks and drives but thats all.

    Edit Oh and I meant to add that I have had at least three different new SSD drives (going up in size) in for clean installs of Windows.
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  4. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
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    Hi,
    I hate to think this old update is messing with you
    After installing Microsoft Update KB3133977 for Windows 7, some users may encounter a "Secure Boot Violation" , which makes the system fail to boot into the operating system.

    Bios wise default should be fine
    The cpu fan deal is pretty interesting
    Does your board have other cpu fan ports or just one ?
    I imagine the fan is running on it is why you said you set it to ignore ?

    You also mentioned "rad" does that mean you're using a liquid cpu cooler ?
    If so which brand and model and how old is it ?
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  5. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Hmm well thinking about it I cannot remember seeing anything a about a secure boot in the BIOS although when I first got this board it was that which had to be set to something I cannot remember to get the machine going.

    Now the fan speed if I leave it at anything than ignore it squeals an alarm and yet the BIOS is telling me that the CPU is only at 22C?? Oh and just the one fan port but I shall check tomorrow when I get home.

    Cooling is via an Intel liquid cooling system - a fairly basic one but has never given me any cause for concern.

    I'll check out that update too when I get home because I have not been downloading any for some time now not wanting all that 10 stuff that was floating around and which I kept the machine clear of with the GWX Control panel because I did not want 10 on this machine.
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  6. Posts : 20,583
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    Hi,
    That update did cause a few different booting errors depending on how windows was installed
    No 100 mb system reserved partitions got different errors than secure boot as the description says I can't remeber the exact error or if there was one at all the machines just did not boot.

    The cooler should be connected to the cpu port or at the least the single fan should be attached to the radiator possibly that needs to be reseated ?
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  7. Posts : 1,686
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and numerous virtual machines
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    John see this article. On Windows 7 Secure boot needs to be set to other OS.

    Microsoft half-bricks Asus Windows 7 PCs with UEFI boot glitch • The Register
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  8. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Ok mate I will try reseating everything tomorrow the fans GPU RAM etc the only thing I don't want to touch is the thermal on the CPU.

    That CPU fan port is the dedicated one for it but like I said it did from day one squeal if it wasn't set to ignore because even the highest setting at 600 rpm was not high enough and yet this machine has never got real hot at all.

    The install was done as per normal on each occasion and each one done before the shenanigans of the 10 release.

    The thing that gets me is it will not accept the default BIOS settings and I am beginning to think maybe this could be malware? I could try a run with the Kaspersky rescue disk I suppose - any thoughts??
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  9. Posts : 20,583
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    Hi,
    Unless you remember how your disk looked after the install or posted a disk management screen shot here it's hard to say mate :)

    Indiana that process is posted in post #5 direct to asus instructions :)
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  10. Posts : 1,686
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and numerous virtual machines
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    If you load default options in the BIOS Secure boot is ON.
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