GA-Z68XP-UD3 Post/Bios/Boot Isues

[loki456]

Earlier in the month my computer would not wake from sleep so I had to power it down. When trying to reboot it froze on the post splash screen with vertical color bars taking up a region of the screen.

Prior to this it was running solid for about 8 months.

The rig has 2 os drives

80 ssd with a boot loader and LION OSX
120gb ssd with Windows 7

[video=youtube;aiv2Iy6Lo-s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiv2Iy6Lo-s[/video]


I sent it in for RMA and received it friday. I set it up again on box to test and same issue. I spent a good portion of last night messing with various things and here is where I am at.


[video=youtube;VTckkiTXdHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTckkiTXdHM[/video]

I was able to clear the post screen bars by booting with only my optical drive connected to its sata port. (it did not clear with no drives connected)

I booted the machine back up and was able to get into bios settings- the bios version is 10. Once inside I loaded my backed up cmos settings from the first day I had the machine up and running smooth.

I rebooted and connected both my OSX and 7 drives

I tried to boot into 7 first and got a boot loop.

I then disconnected the OSX drive and tried 7 and got a boot loop again

Next I tried OSX drive only and was able to get to the apple logo only for it to freeze on that with a prohibited symbol (this means a problem locating the drive it is looking for)

Next rebooted with 7 connected and loaded default fail safe bios settings. (the registry for windows has been edited to look for AHCI but it should still boot the OS and then get a blue screen?) this gave me a boot loop but lead to the BIOS Splash screen with color bars again.

Lastly I connected a empty sata drive and did a fresh windows install as it will boot a cd. As soon as the install was done and it tried to load the OS it went into boot loop.

I can cleared them again with only the optical drive connected starting the cycle over.

No hardware changes were made before this occurred.

I also have backup drives of both OSX and Windows I tested with the same results. (I did not thin both drives would have failed anyways)

[video=youtube;VL251yNNHXk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL251yNNHXk[/video]

[video=youtube;Nu8vzH--lEA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8vzH--lEA[/video]

[video=youtube;ehT8r8BAeiY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehT8r8BAeiY[/video]

 

[o_furioso]

Have you tried booting from your Unibeast flash drive? It may be helpful to think of this as a clean install and follow along with the guides at least until you can get back into the system. I'm guessing there's something amiss with the boot sector if windows is having problems too.

I know I bunged up a multibeast install pretty good and had some exciting Kernel panics. Wound up having to wipe my OS X partition. Took a couple days to reinstall everything, but it's running faster than ever now.

Hope you can get it back!

 

[good911]

Earlier in the month my computer would not wake from sleep so I had to power it down. When trying to reboot it froze on the post splash screen with vertical color bars taking up a region of the screen.

Prior to this it was running solid for about 8 months.

The rig has 2 os drives

80 ssd with a boot loader and LION OSX
120gb ssd with Windows 7

[video=youtube;aiv2Iy6Lo-s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiv2Iy6Lo-s[/video]


I sent it in for RMA and received it friday. I set it up again on box to test and same issue. I spent a good portion of last night messing with various things and here is where I am at.


[video=youtube;VTckkiTXdHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTckkiTXdHM[/video]

I was able to clear the post screen bars by booting with only my optical drive connected to its sata port. (it did not clear with no drives connected)

I booted the machine back up and was able to get into bios settings- the bios version is 10. Once inside I loaded my backed up cmos settings from the first day I had the machine up and running smooth.

I rebooted and connected both my OSX and 7 drives

I tried to boot into 7 first and got a boot loop.

I then disconnected the OSX drive and tried 7 and got a boot loop again

Next I tried OSX drive only and was able to get to the apple logo only for it to freeze on that with a prohibited symbol (this means a problem locating the drive it is looking for)

Next rebooted with 7 connected and loaded default fail safe bios settings. (the registry for windows has been edited to look for AHCI but it should still boot the OS and then get a blue screen?) this gave me a boot loop but lead to the BIOS Splash screen with color bars again.

Lastly I connected a empty sata drive and did a fresh windows install as it will boot a cd. As soon as the install was done and it tried to load the OS it went into boot loop.

I can cleared them again with only the optical drive connected starting the cycle over.

No hardware changes were made before this occurred.

I also have backup drives of both OSX and Windows I tested with the same results. (I did not thin both drives would have failed anyways)

[video=youtube;VL251yNNHXk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL251yNNHXk[/video]

[video=youtube;Nu8vzH--lEA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8vzH--lEA[/video]

[video=youtube;ehT8r8BAeiY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehT8r8BAeiY[/video]

I have the same board and same problem but I do not understand (I was able to clear the post screen bars by booting with only my optical drive connected to its sata port) do you burn bios back up file ? and if you do i want that file.
sorry for may bad English
Thank you