Hi guys,
Recently received and set up my little beast of a gaming rig (this thing). It's working pretty damned well, but the one annoyance I seem to get with it is that it boots to a black screen 50% of the time.
Now this isn't a show-stopping issue - if I push the power button to switch it off, then switch it back on again it boots up normally the second time just fine. But left to it's own devices, whether I reboot or shut down properly, then switch on again it always gives me the black screen.
It seems to me like it's a motherboard issue. The P9X790 Pro had Fast Boot enabled by default in the UEFI and it seems like this is the sort of issue that some people have had with Fast Boot. Moreover, the settings in the mobo were setup such that on power loss, it would do a normal boot... this seems pretty consistent with the computer's behaviour, where doing a hard reset boots it up without any issues.
BUT disabling Fast Boot doesn't seem to have solved the problem. I still get a black screen on boot =/
I haven't found any good solutions to this issue online so far, beyond suggestions to reinstall Windows, so I thought I'd give it a shot in here, see if anyone's tried using Win8 with this motherboard? Ideally, of course, I'd like to have Fast Boot working, but I'm willing to settle for it just... booting up normally, without having to power cycle every time.
Recently received and set up my little beast of a gaming rig (this thing). It's working pretty damned well, but the one annoyance I seem to get with it is that it boots to a black screen 50% of the time.
Now this isn't a show-stopping issue - if I push the power button to switch it off, then switch it back on again it boots up normally the second time just fine. But left to it's own devices, whether I reboot or shut down properly, then switch on again it always gives me the black screen.
It seems to me like it's a motherboard issue. The P9X790 Pro had Fast Boot enabled by default in the UEFI and it seems like this is the sort of issue that some people have had with Fast Boot. Moreover, the settings in the mobo were setup such that on power loss, it would do a normal boot... this seems pretty consistent with the computer's behaviour, where doing a hard reset boots it up without any issues.
BUT disabling Fast Boot doesn't seem to have solved the problem. I still get a black screen on boot =/
I haven't found any good solutions to this issue online so far, beyond suggestions to reinstall Windows, so I thought I'd give it a shot in here, see if anyone's tried using Win8 with this motherboard? Ideally, of course, I'd like to have Fast Boot working, but I'm willing to settle for it just... booting up normally, without having to power cycle every time.
