I just got a new WD Blue SSD (250GB) and I went for a clean slate, so I ran the windows installer from a microSD card (and adapter) and tried installing, couldn't do it (more reasons soon)
I found out that there were exceptions and hurdles to doing it this way, so I ran to the store to get a DVD-R and install like that.
Also did not work correctly, because I didn't boot the DVD in UEFI mode (I can't install windows 10 onto the SSD at all without GPT/UEFI mode)
So, finally got windows installed after that (seems easy here, but this took hours) and now Intel's DZ68DB Motherboard flat out refuses to boot the newly installed Windows installation.
The partitions are all GPT, UEFI is enabled, so is AHCI, no other drives are active when I'm trying to boot it (I have even disconnected the DVD drive to attempt to get this to work)
No matter what I do, I can't boot into windows directly (There is a "P0" option next to the disk, but no "UEFI")
The Windows Boot Manager just flashes the screen, as in, I select it, and the screen flashes, then the drive list is there. It seems to just fail to launch the boot manager for unknown reasons.
So there it is. At this point, I'm either going to be blaming the SSD itself (chkdsk from Windows Installer says nothing is wrong with it, and I've personally be able to write/read to it without issues) or the motherboard.
I am not sure why I can't force this to boot in UEFI mode, or why the windows boot manager won't launch, but I'm at the end of my rope and thinking about buying a new motherboard at this point.
Anybody know why this is happening?