So I noticed many have had the same issue. My razer blade 15 base model (mid 2021) only boots to bios. My ssd is detected as storage but not a boot option in bios.
So following the suggestions in many posts, I am trying to boot from a usb drive with windows installer. In BIOS, I do see the drive being a boot option under Boot tab, as well as under Boot Override. And it is detected as UEFI if that's relevant. I've tried:
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directly enter from Boot Override
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hit F9 to recovery mode
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hit F12 to boot menu, and select the usb there
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do nothing with usb plugged in and power on
All of these just take me to razer logo and a loading circle. After the loading circle loop for ~10min I get BSOD with error message 'DRIVER PNP WATCHDOG.' I don't think the razer logo should be up if I choose to boot from usb? I don't think I prepared the usb wrongly though because it was literally running the Windows media creation tool...
Does anyone who's gone through this process have any suggested fixes? What BIOS settings did you use to successfully boot from a USB drive? I’ve seen suggestions to disable Secure Boot, enable CSM, and set everything to UEFI only. Tried that as well as the default settings, both didn’t work.