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I have a number of drives in my system with different boot configurations for a variety of tasks. The other day I was moving some data round trying to copy a project from my server down to my main to work with and it wasn't coping the files over VERY slow and then halted to copy. I did a few things thought (heart attack) server drive array was playing choke and puke, checked on the server and everything there was fine so I rebooted the main system and that is where the trouble started. The Windows 8.1 startup image came up but nothing else no spinning under the image. So I tried one of my other boot drives and the same thing. SO I tried an old boot and it was saying startup repair but after about 30 minutes I get a black screen and a mouse cursor is all. So I pulled out my Windows to Go drive, plugged it into my USB 3 and tried to boot off of it and I get the Windows 8.1 startup icon and the spinning under it just never stops. I let it sit like that for about 15 minutes and it didn't boot. At that point I just said to hell with it and unplugged the system and put off the project for now.
So I know that I'm going to have to do some basics but I'm thinking that I could get into BIOS just fine and it IDs the drives just fine but doesn't want to boot off of anything that there is probably something wrong with the system board. If after resetting bios, disconnecting all the drives, removing all the ram and putting in a stick from another working system as well as booting with the onboard video and it still won't boot off my Windows to GO, wouldn't that then indicate that the system board is bad.
Is there anything else I should test?
So I know that I'm going to have to do some basics but I'm thinking that I could get into BIOS just fine and it IDs the drives just fine but doesn't want to boot off of anything that there is probably something wrong with the system board. If after resetting bios, disconnecting all the drives, removing all the ram and putting in a stick from another working system as well as booting with the onboard video and it still won't boot off my Windows to GO, wouldn't that then indicate that the system board is bad.
Is there anything else I should test?
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