I wanted to document this so if it helps you, leave a comment. Computer won’t boot, or boots not displaying/showing anything on the screen.
Steps I did to finally get the machine working again.
- cleaned out all the dust in the system. <- Did not fix it.
- reset the bios <- Now the screen shows, but the computer did not boot.
- Windows was stuck at the post screen(logo)
- Possible solution <- Disable VT-d and reboot, and press enter to try again.
- If that fixes your problem your good to go, if not keep on reading.
I ended up booting a reflect rescue disk to restore from a recent backup. During this process I would always get stuck at the windows boot logo. I switched back and forth from IDE to AHCI. IDE seem to give me less problems. Once I disabled VT-d it worked.
Thank you internet, User AirPower4ever @https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/141263-cannot-install-win10-older-system.html
That users post on VT-d saved me so much time. Not that I didn’t spend a bunch of time thinking MBR and the board not supporting uefi. Tons of theory where being through since backups didn’t seem to be working, but they do.
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