n_K Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 This is really frustrating, the windows 10 GUI boot menu refuses to load my mouse or keyboard drivers so I can't pick which OS to boot from. I've tried disabling the GUI boot menu and going back to the classic text menu boot screen but windows 10 seems to decide when it wants to boot the GUI or text mode, about 1 in 10 times it'll load the text mode menu and 9/10 times the GUI boot menu. I used BCDEdit to set it to use the text menu but it just completely ignores it. So how do I fix this damn annoying bug and just have the text boot menu always? Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2 path \EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI description Windows Boot Manager locale en-GB inherit {globalsettings} default {current} resumeobject {4f94dff9-91f6-4de5-aefd-911547258079} displayorder {current} {4f94dff9-91f6-4de5-aefd-911547258079} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 5 displaybootmenu No Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.efi description Windows 10 locale en-GB inherit {bootloadersettings} isolatedcontext Yes allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075 osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {4f94dff9-91f6-4de5-aefd-911547258079} nx OptInbootmenupolicy Legacy hypervisorlaunchtype Auto Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {4f94dff9-91f6-4de5-aefd-911547258079} device partition=D: path \Windows\system32\winload.efi description Windows 7 locale en-GB inherit {bootloadersettings} recoverysequence {4f94dff9-91f6-4de5-aefd-911547258079} recoveryenabled Yes osdevice partition=D: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {4f94dff9-91f6-4de5-aefd-911547258079} nx OptInbootmenupolicy Legacy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted December 1, 2015 Author Share Posted December 1, 2015 Seems 'displaybootmenu No' needs to be set to yes now, despite having to be set to no previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinaryData Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Have you tried enabling legacy devices in your BIOS? That's what I had to do to get my keyboard to work when booting up. Otherwise it didn't work unless I used a PS/2 Keyboard (My mobo doesn't have that port anymore D: ) Anibal P 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted December 1, 2015 Author Share Posted December 1, 2015 Just now, BinaryData said: Have you tried enabling legacy devices in your BIOS? That's what I had to do to get my keyboard to work when booting up. Otherwise it didn't work unless I used a PS/2 Keyboard (My mobo doesn't have that port anymore D: ) Legacy mode is enabled in my BIOS by default. It's probably a BIOS firmware issue though because once I power my PC off, USB devices aren't properly powered off, i.e. mouse LED stays on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinaryData Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 4 minutes ago, n_K said: Legacy mode is enabled in my BIOS by default. It's probably a BIOS firmware issue though because once I power my PC off, USB devices aren't properly powered off, i.e. mouse LED stays on. Is it an older Motherboard? My old Intel LGA775 Motherboard left all the Lights on. Drove me insane. I ended up switching the power on the PSU off at night, otherwise all my case fan LEDs would stay on. =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted December 1, 2015 Author Share Posted December 1, 2015 Nope, almost new. Skylake ASUS z170 pro gaming. Heh can imagine how that'd become annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MS Bob 11 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Use Winaero Tweaker to do it easily: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.1836 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted December 2, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted December 2, 2015 Hello, Just to confirm, you ran a bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy command from an elevated Command Prompt to initially set the boot menu policy, correct? Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 Yes I used an elevated command prompt. I was wrong - this issue isn't fixed, setting displaybootmenu to yes hasn't resolved it, sometimes it will be a GUI boot menu, other times it will be text based... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted December 3, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted December 3, 2015 Hello, It seems strange to me that the computer would randomly display GUI and text boot menus. Is more than one operating system installed on the computer? If so, perhaps its boot manager is interfering. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted December 3, 2015 Author Share Posted December 3, 2015 It's UEFI with rEFInd as the main bootloader, one option is for linux and the other is for windows, this then chainloads the windows bootloader which shows windows 10/windows 7 but flips randomly between text/GUI mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted December 4, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted December 4, 2015 Hello, I am thinking it is some sort of compatibility issue with rEFInd. Do you have another disk drive you can wipe, install into the computer, and partition only with Windows 10 and then try changing the boot configuration with bcdedit to see if that makes any difference? Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 For anyone with the same issue, the problem is not windows 7, it's not linux and it's not refind: it's windows 10. To be more precise it's fast boot in windows 10. To resolve the issue, you need to disable the fast startup option which you do by fully disabling hibernate, from an admin command prompt: powercfg /H off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 BTW try making sure your mouse/keyboard are not plugged into USB 3.0 ports, that might fix the boot GUI keyboard/mouse issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted April 8, 2016 Author Share Posted April 8, 2016 On 03/04/2016 at 3:52 PM, xendrome said: BTW try making sure your mouse/keyboard are not plugged into USB 3.0 ports, that might fix the boot GUI keyboard/mouse issue. They're all in USB 2.0 ports, I only have one front USB 3.0 port. As said though, in text boot mode the keyboard works flawlessly, in GUI boot mode neither the mouse or keyboard work until windows has booted. Resolved anyhow with fast startup disabled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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