Hallo
I am new here and hoping I have chosen the right area to post in and that you can help me with this problem or at least understand it.
I have an ASUS M5A97 EVO motherboard ver 1.
I multiboot XP, Win 7 and 8 all on seperate hard drives (not partitions)
I have been having problems with explorer being slow to load in Win 8 and had read that updating the BIOS might help. Accordingly I downloaded the lastest BIOS from ASUS and updated it from the BIOS interface.
That all went smoothly but on rebooting it would not boot into the o/s. It went as far as the boot menu but none of the options would work all sending me back to run the repair from the o/s CD. I tried that but none were successful.
I then tried reverting to an earlier BIOS, in fact several but that did not change anything.
I have several system images and all of them installed but none would take me past the boot menu.
In the end I have had to re-install Win 7 from scratch which is a real pain and would prefer to reload my last image.
Having installed Win 7 the computer works fine so I am puzzled as to what the problem is. I did consider that it might have enabled secureboot but I don't think this m/b has it.
I would appreciate any suggestions
Thanks
I am new here and hoping I have chosen the right area to post in and that you can help me with this problem or at least understand it.
I have an ASUS M5A97 EVO motherboard ver 1.
I multiboot XP, Win 7 and 8 all on seperate hard drives (not partitions)
I have been having problems with explorer being slow to load in Win 8 and had read that updating the BIOS might help. Accordingly I downloaded the lastest BIOS from ASUS and updated it from the BIOS interface.
That all went smoothly but on rebooting it would not boot into the o/s. It went as far as the boot menu but none of the options would work all sending me back to run the repair from the o/s CD. I tried that but none were successful.
I then tried reverting to an earlier BIOS, in fact several but that did not change anything.
I have several system images and all of them installed but none would take me past the boot menu.
In the end I have had to re-install Win 7 from scratch which is a real pain and would prefer to reload my last image.
Having installed Win 7 the computer works fine so I am puzzled as to what the problem is. I did consider that it might have enabled secureboot but I don't think this m/b has it.
I would appreciate any suggestions
Thanks