Lock screen question

debgram said:

On the MB the slot are really dark grey and blue, only the grey work, putting anything in the blue the pc won't start. I had them in right, I tripled checked each one. I couldn't go for i7, because of money availability. My psu is still good 750watt, and my WD is only 2 years old, I have 2 other drives and their old but have no problems with them. I look into getting a SSD maybe next year, right now money is an issue.

From what it tells you in the manual using 2 RAM sticks you should use the Blue, using 1 RAM Stick you use the first Blue and using 4 of course then the grey to. This is as far as i can see from picture and in the manual, but if look at the motherboard those numbers should be there A1, A2, B1, B2.

I understand it was just a suggestion on the Intel i7. What Brand and Model 750W PSU ? Hopefully that 2 year old WD was not the issue.
Since you ordered a new board i still wondered if you wanted to still try fixing this issue if you intend on using it still for a second PC.

I have no choice the blue ones don't work. PC seems to be running good with them in the grey slots. I couldn't find that in my manual. PSU is a Cosair. Even the motherboard doesn't even beep anymore on startup. My parts came today, and I called the place where I'm going to have them put the stuff in, if it wasn't MB and CPU I would have done everything myself. Will take it in tomorrow morning, then I have to get in touch with Microsoft support again to get a new key when I get the pc home. I'm going to let this issue go, I'm pretty sure the slots are bad as I tested them so the MB wouldn't be any good, plus there are no more BIOS updates for it. Thanks for your help.

jds63 said:

From what it tells you in the manual using 2 RAM sticks you should use the Blue, using 1 RAM Stick you use the first Blue and using 4 of course then the grey to. This is as far as i can see from picture and in the manual, but if look at the motherboard those numbers should be there A1, A2, B1, B2.

I understand it was just a suggestion on the Intel i7. What Brand and Model 750W PSU ? Hopefully that 2 year old WD was not the issue.
Since you ordered a new board i still wondered if you wanted to still try fixing this issue if you intend on using it still for a second PC.

debgram said:

I have no choice the blue ones don't work. PC seems to be running good with them in the grey slots. I couldn't find that in my manual. PSU is a Cosair. Even the motherboard doesn't even beep anymore on startup. My parts came today, and I called the place where I'm going to have them put the stuff in, if it wasn't MB and CPU I would have done everything myself. Will take it in tomorrow morning, then I have to get in touch with Microsoft support again to get a new key when I get the pc home. I'm going to let this issue go, I'm pretty sure the slots are bad as I tested them so the MB wouldn't be any good, plus there are no more BIOS updates for it. Thanks for your help.

Well for what it's worth this is where i found it https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards...lpDesk_Manual/
Something you never told me about, beeps at startup.

Putting a motherboard in a case and hooking stuff to it is not hard really, installing the CPU and the thermal paste might be a little harder for some. Great way to learn more and save money.

O.k. that is fine about the older motherboard if you think it is bad it's probably not worth it and fact of getting a new one.
One thing do not buy another key as of yet or talk to Microsoft we should be able to help you on getting windows 10 activated again on the new system and you have the ISO. Burn a disc or make a USB flash drive now if you did not already from the ISO.

Your most welcome for the help,anytime !!

There was just another update, and now I can't bootup again. There must be something about that update, it doesn't give you much info on it, so I don't know how to not install that one. I'm reinstalling again, this is really got the best of me.

Microsoft support didn't say anything about it costing again. He said my copy of windows was installed and has key for this old MB, a new motherboard will need a new key which he said the techs can get or for me, he said just for me to go ahead when I get the pc home to chat back with him and get it activated.

On the old MB I can't even get into safe mode, the repair wouldn't work and it said again I had no system restore points which I did because I check yesterday. Something about that update is messing things up, it has to be the update

jds63 said:

Well for what it's worth this is where i found it https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards...lpDesk_Manual/
Something you never told me about, beeps at startup.

Putting a motherboard in a case and hooking stuff to it is not hard really, installing the CPU and the thermal paste might be a little harder for some. Great way to learn more and save money.

O.k. that is fine about the older motherboard if you think it is bad it's probably not worth it and fact of getting a new one.
One thing do not buy another key as of yet or talk to Microsoft we should be able to help you on getting windows 10 activated again on the new system and you have the ISO. Burn a disc or make a USB flash drive now if you did not already from the ISO.

Your most welcome for the help,anytime !!

debgram said:

There was just another update, and now I can't bootup again. There must be something about that update, it doesn't give you much info on it, so I don't know how to not install that one. I'm reinstalling again, this is really got the best of me.

Microsoft support didn't say anything about it costing again. He said my copy of windows was installed and has key for this old MB, a new motherboard will need a new key which he said the techs can get or for me, he said just for me to go ahead when I get the pc home to chat back with him and get it activated.

On the old MB I can't even get into safe mode, the repair wouldn't work and it said again I had no system restore points which I did because I check yesterday. Something about that update is messing things up, it has to be the update

Go to settings then Advanced Options then View Update History and if you click it it will show more info.


Most likely a driver issue as said, but you told me to forget about this board.

Just got my pc back but windows won't install on my main drive says something about mbr I think. How do I get my drives to read write before I took it in? My main drive is partitioned into 2 drives, when I went in computer management it says it's main, but when I went to install a clean install it said I can't install it on there. Right now I'm doing a in place install over windows 10, Lord knows what drive that's going to end up on. I thought this was going to be easy, just get everything replaced boot into windows, get a new key and that's it

jds63 said:

Go to settings then Advanced Options then View Update History and if you click it it will show more info.


Most likely a driver issue as said, but you told me to forget about this board.

debgram said:

Just got my pc back but windows won't install on my main drive says something about mbr I think. How do I get my drives to read write before I took it in? My main drive is partitioned into 2 drives, when I went in computer management it says it's main, but when I went to install a clean install it said I can't install it on there. Right now I'm doing a in place install over windows 10, Lord knows what drive that's going to end up on. I thought this was going to be easy, just get everything replaced boot into windows, get a new key and that's it

I am not that knowledgeable on this type of repair sometimes fixed by running repair from the Windows 10 disc used for when the computer won't boot which i think you may have used it for once. Seems the Master boot record is corrupt either from improper shutdown. This is not a Hard drive issue.
Look here....
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/repair...rd-mbr-windows

Best this hard drive is just reformatted for the new board anyway rather then trying to fix the MBR now. I am not positive on the exact error you are getting but all the same anyway. Not going to install windows on this drive then put it into the other motherboard if this is your thoughts this can be done then. Also considering will be different system drivers to be added to install on the other board. As far as the partitions i am not sure what is on each partition, one can be a recovery partition.

Oh here's the error, someone else had it too but I couldn't understand the tut on changing the mbr to gpt disk....windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

jds63 said:

I am not that knowledgeable on this type of repair sometimes fixed by running repair from the Windows 10 disc used for when the computer won't boot which i think you may have used it for once. Seems the Master boot record is corrupt either from improper shutdown. This is not a Hard drive issue.
Look here....
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/repair...rd-mbr-windows

Best this hard drive is just reformatted for the new board anyway rather then trying to fix the MBR now. I am not positive on the exact error you are getting but all the same anyway. Not going to install windows on this drive then put it into the other motherboard if this is your thoughts this can be done then. Also considering will be different system drivers to be added to install on the other board. As far as the partitions i am not sure what is on each partition, one can be a recovery partition.

debgram said:

Oh here's the error, someone else had it too but I couldn't understand the tut on changing the mbr to gpt disk....windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

O.K. EFI systems can use either MBR or GPT Partition. First try to understand the differences in both...
http://www.howtogeek.com/193669/what...oning-a-drive/

Your new board will probably have UEFI instead of a BIOS and using GPT ( GUID Partition Table ) you may be better off but you can still use MBR.

You have this issue with this drive on the older PC and unless you need something from one of the partitions on it i would just format this drive and do a clean install of windows 10 on the new PC, unless you do not want to use this drive for the new PC i was not sure.You can make partitions on a drive and much more with GPT.

You can decide to use MBR or GPT according to how it is selected when booting from the Windows 10 disc to install Windows. You would select from the boot manager UEFI DVD Drive or UEFI:USB Drive. The only reason i can understand you wanting to fix it now with this drive is i believe you think it is better to have windows installed on it already for the new PC which i feel is not best.

That is my better and faster drive it's always been my main drive

jds63 said:

O.K. EFI systems can use either MBR or GPT Partition. First try to understand the differences in both...
http://www.howtogeek.com/193669/what...oning-a-drive/

Your new board will probably have UEFI instead of a BIOS and using GPT ( GUID Partition Table ) you may be better off but you can still use MBR.

You have this issue with this drive on the older PC and unless you need something from one of the partitions on it i would just format this drive and do a clean install of windows 10 on the new PC, unless you do not want to use this drive for the new PC i was not sure.You can make partitions on a drive and much more with GPT.

You can decide to use MBR or GPT according to how it is selected when booting from the Windows 10 disc to install Windows. You would select from the boot manager UEFI DVD Drive or UEFI:USB Drive. The only reason i can understand you wanting to fix it now with this drive is i believe you think it is better to have windows installed on it already for the new PC which i feel is not best.