Solved Acer E1 (UEFI) Auto repair bootloop...No usb boot

[cd5tuner]

^^Yes... I only tried Rufus app and Diskpart myself after I tried the creation tool 3 times in total.
-Win Media Creation Tool (3x) created bootable Win 8.1 64bit Usb...Results: Only comes up as USB, Acer Splash Screen and then black screen
-Rufus(GPT FAT32 settings) Win8.1 64bit Normal iso downloaded with WinMediaTool Results: Same as above\
-Diskpart etc etc mounted same ISO same results I guess Im SOL...
Other only things i can think of is trying another thumbdrive or trying Win8

 

[KYHI]

Are your usb ports Blue 3.0 or black 2.0?

SecureBoot off?

And I'm not talking Fast Boot, as your bios pic shows

 

[cd5tuner]

it has one 3.0 and (2) 2.0...but i only use the 2.0. Regarding Secure boot with each methos ive tried it on and off to no avail

 

[KYHI]

post a pic of the files on your setup media

 

[cd5tuner]

Ok ill do that when i get home. Thank you guys!

 

[cd5tuner]

Would you like to see the subfolders also?

 

[KYHI]

will those look like the right files that should e on the USB/DVD root..

bootmgr and bootmgr.efi are both there

 

[cd5tuner]

Yep...weird huh?...what about if i try another OS?

 

[alphanumeric]

You'll have to turn secure boot off if you try to boot from anything other than Windows 8 or Windows 10.

 

[cd5tuner]

Like I said Ive tried with secureboot off and on multiple times...Ive lit 8 candles in my window to bill gates and made a blood vow to never buy bitten fruits, penguins or green chubby robots :/ ...my jokes suck I know

 

[electrotune1200]

This may sound silly.

In Bios, where you highlight the UEFI boot option with the arrow key. You are hitting enter on the keyboard correct? This should bring up a sub menu option (select legacy).

I was just working on an Acer machine last week. Clean installed 8.1 from a flash drive.

We have to be missing something here.

 

[cd5tuner]

Thats available on the legacy bios update. Mine just says UEFI and gives no other option when i hit enter. Its there just taunting me...UEFI or Die Mother#!_×_€×!!! I act like an idiot when i get frustrated...sorry

 

[KYHI]

http://www.eightforums.com/installation-setup/61898-acer-aspire-e15-win8-1-install.html

It's not just you - but you already know that

 

[cd5tuner]

Yep...Breakfast Trays by Acer

 

[electrotune1200]

Sorry if you've already covered some of these questions...

Have you ever updated the Bios at all?

I know on the Acer laptop I just worked on, F12 on boot needed to be enabled in the Bios. Maybe in the security section? Have you already done that?

 

[cd5tuner]

No ive never updated the bios before when the pc used to boot normally.
And yes i enabled F12 which allows you too choose what to boot without going into the bios :/

 

[cd5tuner]

UPDATE!! Just finished installing and setting up the drivers!!! Hooray!!!

Solution to my particular problem...hard drive.
I decided to swap out the hdd for one i had stashed from an old HP (actually better same 500gb but now im @7200rpm). Turned it on, came up with NO Media found and it told me to choose what to boot. I chose the USB and it booted the Install Setup!!!!

Thank Everyone who contributed and commented for showing support, awesome forum!

 

[KYHI]

Very Happy you found the problem..... And got it up and running again...