OS Load problem

John, you did press Shift+F10 at this screen? Then go on and do your diskpart.

Britton,
I'm like you. I don't understand how in the world such a simple procedure can be messed up. I know you didn't say those words. Those are my words.

All one has to do is to be able to follow instructions, precisely, just as written and all works perfectly.

Now I don't want to sound cranky but I DID hit those keys Shift +F10 at that screen but nothing happened I am not dreaming this and I as I said I don't want to sound a bit miffed but it has happpend three times.

Now given that I might have missed it once - three times is just not on - sorry but I am just tired and well the whole damn thing is beginning to get to me.

I use a wired keyboard and mouse so it cannot be put down to some aberration in the control devices as in wireless ones.

I did try the original SSD - the M4 in the laptop and now it is in my tester and it worked perfectly in both so the problem has to be with my board and the transfer of data through the NB or SB or wherever it travels to get to the monitor.

I think I had better close this thread as I can see everyone is trying to help and must be getting very frustrated and annoyingly it is something that I will just have to put up with until I get another board.

Anyway I appreciate the time and patience you all have put in all the same

Let me help you here:
Shift + F10 is a key combo.

You PRESS and HOLD DOWN the SHIFT key.
do NOT release the SHIFT key.
Tap the F!0 key
Now you can release the SHIFT key.

karlsnooks said:

Let me help you here:
Shift + F10 is a key combo.

You PRESS and HOLD DOWN the SHIFT key.
do NOT release the SHIFT key.
Tap the F!0 key
Now you can release the SHIFT key.

Ok Karl I did that but not tapping F10 I just held them both down - shift first then quickly the F10. I'll do it again and see what happens perhaps fourth time lucky eh?

I am going to run some one off malware scans before trying again - sorry about the rant I'm not usually so touchy.

Good news I tried another keyboard - a very cheap one I keep for testing stuff and the shift+F10 - worked and am now waiting on clean all to finish.

My main (and expensive keyboard) would still not work the shift+F10 so no wonder I was getting nowhere.

Look I am so ashamed re my rant and must apologise to all.

Now it is cleaned and I am ready to move on

ignatzatsonic said:

ICit2lol said:

Now I boot > post > then a black screen with a message in white letters saying "Loading operating system...................(<white dots runs for 25 secs or more) > then flag starts to form and > UAC password. After that it flies but the load message has become a nightmare since I installed the first SSD an M4 some time ago.

The same happens using the old HDD's Is there anyone who can shed some light on this problem for me please as it is going to drive me crazy.

System is a Gigabyte H67UD3H-B3 board with a i5 2500 processsor and 8GB of DDR3 1333mhz RAM in it.

Are you still having the issue with the white dots for 25 seconds or more?

I had that too. On the very same motherboard you are using.

In my case, it turned out to because the BIOS was searching for a disk in the DVD drive to boot from while the dots were displayed.

With most motherboards, you can leave the DVD drive as the first boot device and the boot process will just fly by an empty DVD drive with no delay, and find the hard drive and boot. I've always left the DVD as first boot device because I sometimes want to boot from the DVD drive and didn't want to have to go into the BIOS repeatedly and set the DVD as first in the order.

But these Gigabytes search the DVD drive for around 25 seconds.

Solution: set your hard drive as the first boot device, not the DVD drive.

If you need to boot from the DVD drive, use the one-time boot menu to chose the DVD drive---or go into the BIOS and make the manual change from SSD first to DVD first every time.

Yep same old same old ignazatsonic white dots galore I'll have a go at that - time for some coffee right now lol!!

Nope couldn't wait to try it - it worked thanks so much I have been at this machine for the last four days and it was something as simple as that. Although I had changed the sequence before but perhaps cos I used Karl's set up and then your fix it is now working

One things for sure the keyboard is going to a good home - free!!

The F12 key trick doesn't work on all computers. Wish it did.