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CSM functions correctly, UEFI fails (MSI B660 Pro-A)

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RaiZer_
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05-14-2022, 08:12 AM
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Technically my bios is set to have CSM + UEFI , but there is a UEFI setting, and here's what happened. the primary issue is that if I would restart, or first start after shutdown, the display goes to "unsupported mode" which is what my tv displays when there IS a signal, it just can't use it. ,, , If I turn off the computer with the power button hold, and then turn it back on, I can boot into a display. Eventually I figured out if I leave bios set to CSM and then CSM + UEFI, it works fine. I think what happened was,, I tried to move my windows 10 boot drive to a new motherboard. It wouldn't boot, so I switched from UEFI to CSM and it booted, and I forgot about that. Then, I ended up struggling to move my boot drive to a new ssd, and went for a clean install anyway, but all the while bios was in CSM. Later, I upgraded to windows 11 (which may be inconsiquential, because i did a bunch of things at once), but also I switched bios back to UEFI. Presently, the only real reason I would want to have the FIRST uefi option , instead of csm + uefi after setting to csm , is that I feel like having only UEFI boots faster, which i do want. Is there a way to somehow fix this without a clean install? The biggest problems are going to be that I have to reinstall all my games, plus reset all their settings,, and finally I will need to ..... play through some levels again for at least one game to get back to my current status. I checked the drives in disk management, and they are the right kind of drive (not mbr or whatever, they are the gts or whatever). I also end up with another problem that may or may not be related, where I have the BSOD over my ch341 drivers, which I need because that's what's all my arduinos. This BSOD is basically random, and may not happen every day, or may happen more than once per day, but then I need a few boots because of the other problem,,, so far in CSM I haven't had either problem. It's been like, 2 days. again I think the reason UEFI doesn't work without csm is that I was able to boot from my other drive in csm, and forgot to change the bios setting when I went for a clean install after all. I would prefer the faster boot, if I can achieve it WITHOUT completely starting over?
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RaiZer_
05-14-2022, 08:12 AM #1

Technically my bios is set to have CSM + UEFI , but there is a UEFI setting, and here's what happened. the primary issue is that if I would restart, or first start after shutdown, the display goes to "unsupported mode" which is what my tv displays when there IS a signal, it just can't use it. ,, , If I turn off the computer with the power button hold, and then turn it back on, I can boot into a display. Eventually I figured out if I leave bios set to CSM and then CSM + UEFI, it works fine. I think what happened was,, I tried to move my windows 10 boot drive to a new motherboard. It wouldn't boot, so I switched from UEFI to CSM and it booted, and I forgot about that. Then, I ended up struggling to move my boot drive to a new ssd, and went for a clean install anyway, but all the while bios was in CSM. Later, I upgraded to windows 11 (which may be inconsiquential, because i did a bunch of things at once), but also I switched bios back to UEFI. Presently, the only real reason I would want to have the FIRST uefi option , instead of csm + uefi after setting to csm , is that I feel like having only UEFI boots faster, which i do want. Is there a way to somehow fix this without a clean install? The biggest problems are going to be that I have to reinstall all my games, plus reset all their settings,, and finally I will need to ..... play through some levels again for at least one game to get back to my current status. I checked the drives in disk management, and they are the right kind of drive (not mbr or whatever, they are the gts or whatever). I also end up with another problem that may or may not be related, where I have the BSOD over my ch341 drivers, which I need because that's what's all my arduinos. This BSOD is basically random, and may not happen every day, or may happen more than once per day, but then I need a few boots because of the other problem,,, so far in CSM I haven't had either problem. It's been like, 2 days. again I think the reason UEFI doesn't work without csm is that I was able to boot from my other drive in csm, and forgot to change the bios setting when I went for a clean install after all. I would prefer the faster boot, if I can achieve it WITHOUT completely starting over?

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DonCruzader
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05-14-2022, 08:29 AM
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You could try a refresh and see if that does it. It’s a cheapo one button reinstall that only rewrites some stuff and crucially leaves your data alone. I kinda doubt it will work but it’s quick and easy and the chances are above zero.
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DonCruzader
05-14-2022, 08:29 AM #2

You could try a refresh and see if that does it. It’s a cheapo one button reinstall that only rewrites some stuff and crucially leaves your data alone. I kinda doubt it will work but it’s quick and easy and the chances are above zero.