Windows 8.1 having booting issues....

[Dreamerbydesign]

Rig in my signature.

Ran fine and stable on Windows 7 for months. Not currently overclocked. I changed no hardware. Everyone was raving about 8.1 so I figured I would give it a shot, after I initially tried 8 and hated it.

Fresh format, installed Windows 7. Activated it, upgraded to 8. Upgraded to 8.1 Yea I know it was the long way, but I couldn't figure out how to make my windows 8 upgrade key work for a clean install, let alone a windows 8.1 clean install.

Hibernation is disabled. Sleep is disabled. Windows is set to high performance power mode. When I shut it down, and power it up later, the screen displays the UEFI screen, briefly displays the windows 8.1 swirling loading circles and shuts down.

It will continue this until I go into UEFI, and choose the "force boot" option and select my ssd.

Does this even when the ssd is the only drive connected! Fast boot and hardware fast boot is disabled. The hardware is NOT faulty. This same setup had ZERO issues on Windows 7.


Any suggestions?

 

[cyclone3d]

What motherboard are you running?

Have you updated to the latest BIOS?

If you have an option in BIOS that lets you select RST or RSTe for the Intel controller, select RST. I have had boot issues on mine with Win8, 8.1, if RSTe is selected.

 

[Dreamerbydesign]

I have no clue why my signature is not showing up...

Asus Z87 Sabertooth

Yes BIOS is up to date.

I will check that option is BIOS thank you for the suggestion.

 

[mi7chy]

Try turning off fast startup. I had funkiness booting on desktop running Windows 8/8.1 until this was turned off.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

As far as doing a clean install of Windows 8.1 try doing it with a place holder key then when it's up and running activate with the upgrade key. That was also useful when I had to do a recovery refresh of 8.1.

http://www.eightforums.com/installation-setup/33164-how-download-windows-8-1-iso.html

 

[Bluesun311]

The only reason I've decided to learn to be content with 8.1 is because of full secure boot.
I couldn't get everything working the way I wanted to without reinstalling 8.1 from a flash drive like 15 times and learning what I was doing wrong but I'm obsessive like that.
There's this whole issue about actually installing 8.1 in UEFI mode as opposed to legacy. GPT vs MBR partitioning. All very confusing. I even came to find that having certain features of my motherboard turned off in BIOS during the installation would change OS load times--ASmedia.
The thing about 8.1 that is really cheeky is that it prefers hardware designed with secure boot mind. I'm even seeing monitors advertised as 8.1 ready (UEFI).

For that matter, I could not imagine bothering with 8.1 without fast start OR hardware fast start. So my advice is to work on finding a way to do a clean install of 8.1 and then making sure the core components are UEFI ready (the monitor doesn't matter really but there can be weird incompatibilities with rare display types).