BIOS.

[dirtwegy]

Well I finally got my CMOS to show at last, but now I load defaults and arrange setting, El Captain won't boot. So I put in USB to get El Captain to work, turn it on push F12 to choose what I need, it goes through to start up showing USB and El Captain, I choose El Captain the screen goes black and thats it, I try again and choose USB, the screen goes black thats it, is there anything I missed? thanks.

 

[cmn699]

Well I finally got my CMOS to show at last, but now I load defaults and arrange setting, El Captain won't boot. So I put in USB to get El Captain to work, turn it on push F12 to choose what I need, it goes through to start up showing USB and El Captain, I choose El Captain the screen goes black and thats it, I try again and choose USB, the screen goes black thats it, is there anything I missed? thanks.

Well I finally got my CMOS to show at last,

• How did you manage to enter BIOS Setup which you could not do before?
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but now I load defaults and arrange setting, El Captain won't boot.

• To answer this problem, we need to get the
  • BIOS options chosen for the boot and
  • CLOVER folder from the el Capitan System disk.
• To Get BIOS screen shots try -> #33
• Since it is not possible to easily get CLOVER from a Non-bootng System disk (El Capitan), you may have to mount the EFI Partition of El Capitan through Windows, give a drive letter to EFI volume to mount that and view and copy the EFI or CLOVER folder and zip and upload.
  • This is a complicated method needing two Tools downloaded to Windows but doable.
• Assuming that the CLOVER folders kexts/Other and drivers64UEFI are OK , you can upload Photos of
  • Clover Boot Manager Screen showing the icons of bootable devices,
  • Options_Boot Args
  • ACPI Patching ->
  • SMBIOS->
  • PCI devices->
  • Graphics Injector->
  • Binaries patching->
  • System Parameters
• The above screen shots represent your config.plist used for that boot.

 

[dirtwegy]

I manage to get the CMOS up after the gigabyte book showed a CMOS switch at the end of the board near the ram, I thought what the hell and switch it one way, then the other, after trying to get the CMOS again it work. I'll take pictures as you stated soon.

 

[dirtwegy]

Here are photos I feel something's wrong but I no not.

 

[cmn699]

Here are photos I feel something's wrong but I no not.

• Screen shots are all displayed upside down!
• BIOS Screens were not AutoCaptured and therefore All are Crooked
• Before I take a look at them,
  • I want to know if your El Capitan is installed in UEFI or Legacy Mode?
  • Is the USB installer used to boot in UEFI or Legacy Mode CLOVER?
• I have to correlate BIOS and CBM screen shots knowing what type of Boot Mode has been used by the two bootable disks used?

 

[P1LGRIM]

Screen shots are all displayed upside down

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[dirtwegy]

Hi, they are both in UEFI mode, thanks. The usb installer was just made to try and get El Captain running.

 

[cmn699]

Hi, they are both in UEFI mode, thanks. The usb installer was just made to try and get El Captain running.

• I am uploading edited BIOS screen shots for you to try changing BIOS options to boot as annotated in the images.
  • Because the images are crooked, it is hard to insert rectangle properly during image editing in Preview.
    • May be your BIOS has no option to AutoCapture BIOS screens and therefore you had taken Photos with Cell phone Camera.
  • To prevent Upside-Down Landscape Camera shots on Forum upload , hold the Cell phone (camera) as shown in the image I am uploading while taking Photos.

 

[dirtwegy]

Yes I had taken the photos with a phone and I see what I have to do in future, hold the picture button to the right. I will alter the bios as you described and see what happens, thanks.

 

[cmn699]

Yes I had taken the photos with a phone and I see what I have to do in future, hold the picture button to the right. I will alter the bios as you described and see what happens, thanks.

I had to re-edit image 4 because of misleading annotation. Edited image is uploaded