Couple questons

I have a couple things that have just started happening kind of out of the blue.

First, lately when I go to shutdown/restart the reboot stops on a screen that says that I need to place boot software in the drive.  The only way to get out of this is to shut the computer down and start it up again.  I have also had to reset the boot drive to the SSD, some how it got set to the optical drive. But the computer boots normally from a cold boot, exception below.

Second, I am getting a pop up window when I cold boot my computer that is labeled Intel Max Turbo Boost Technology 3.0 and there is an Icon for it in the system tray.  I uninstalled it a couple days ago as I don't know what that is nor can I get ANY part of it to work; but it has reappeared again.

Is any of this connected with the latest W10 updates.  Anyone else having anything like this happening?

Thanks
Arne

Thanks for the response.  If there is an option to drop the notices, I can't find it.

7 Month old Bolt 3 with 2 EVO one terabyte SSDs.  NO clue what "cloning" a drive is or how to do it.  Sorry, just an old guy with a better computer than skills.

Arne

Probably.  F2 during boot up gives what I thought was the BIOS.  I've changed that from the optical to the SSD a couple times.  Seemed to work for a cold boot but not for a restart.  The restart message comes up in the old "dot matrix" style like we had 30 years ago under the original dos and monochrome monitors.

Thanks so much!!!!  I won't be able to try that until Tuesday but will see what I get and report back.

Thanks again!

Arne

OK, Hitting DEL during cold boot puts me to the same place as F2; ASRock UEFI.

There I have the boot SSD as the first drive, the BD optical is the second and the second SSD doesn't show up at all.  I presume that is correct as the second SSD is not a boot drive.

There is just too much "stuff" there that I don't understand and am reluctant to mess with.  The BD drive shows up in a couple other places in the UFEI but there is no understandable (to me) selections to be made.  So far, no changes made.

More background, when I go to shut down the computer, I get a "app running " which prevents shutdown unless forced.  OR if I cancel out, then go back to shutdown, that message is gone and shut down happens normally. Whatever the "app" is doesn't show up in the task manager.

Also on initial start up, the computer fans and lights come on  momentarily then turn off for a couple seconds then starts again normally.  Is the "stutter step" normal?

It SEEMS that the computer runs pretty much normally AFTER boot up and AFTER I have turned off the Intel turboboost tech 3.0 window that appears.  Do I just live with it?

Thanks

Arne

If the "UEFI" is the BIOS, yes, that is what I did.

Yep, pictures are too big.  I have 4 but they are apparently 2.3MB

I've got them on Imgur but now having trouble getting links to this web page.

https://imgur.com/mMVMvMK

Hopefully you can see something of interest.

https://imgur.com/6nLSY3t

Ok that is a start problem is all the suff we need to see are blurry.

The last 3 pics, can you re-take them but this time make sure bios is clear not blurry please

Also you can upload pics here https://postimg.org/

After you upload post "direct link" here

Edited by DST4ME - 15 Nov 2017 at 10:49pm

https://s19.postimg.org/ib2u8asxf/screen_2.jpg

Ok well first let me ask you and be sure when you answer,

Which drive has your os on it? 850 or the 960?

The 960 is your fastest and is should be on it, but let me know

Edited by DST4ME - 16 Nov 2017 at 10:58am

Ok qe could find out first but in true DST4ME fashion let's take a shortcut.

Im not familiar with asrock, not sure if boot manager needs to be enabled under tools but let's come back to that.

Please change boot drives under "boot" and set 960 as boot priority and see if boot problem is fixed

Edited by DST4ME - 16 Nov 2017 at 11:16am

Let me know

After you make the change take a pic of it and post it here please like the others.

Good job on clear pics btw

Edited by DST4ME - 16 Nov 2017 at 11:17am

Seems like MAYBE things work again but what cased the change to start with?? As you can see, I'm not playing around with things, not smart enough.

Ok like i said intel turbo boost is a different issue put that aside for now we will come back to it. :)

So right now after changing to 960 it boots up without you having to choose boot drive?

Nice so problem one solved.

I would only have cd/dvd and 960 listed for boot.

Ok now to turbo boost, so you don't want to use turbo boost or you just don't want to see the prompt?

Uncheck "enable" and "foreground app had priority"

And see if it still comes up