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    GT80 SLI: Cold boot OK, reboot hangs on splash screen

    Discussion in 'MSI Reviews & Owners' Lounges' started by etcetera, May 14, 2020.

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    etcetera Notebook Evangelist

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    Everything in BIOS is standard except for me switching from the RAID mode to AHCI. I no longer have the RAID. I did update the registry settings appropriately.

    Changing fast boot off/on in BIOS did not make any difference.

    This should be an easy case to resolve. Cold boot after a shutdown is perfectly fine. A "reboot" hangs on the MSI splash screen. What happens differently during a reboot versus a cold boot?
     
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    The machine would no longer boot all of a sudden. I remembered I made a change in BIOS.

    Amazingly the problem occurred when I turned off "Secure Boot". It would no longer boot, no logo / splash screen even.

    Turned the secure boot back on and it's booting now.

    what an interesting bug.
     
    etcetera, May 28, 2020
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