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cant get to bios setup page,really need some help here

cant get to bios setup page,really need some help here
« on: September 21, 2014, 05:04:54 am »
Hi im new to pc building and this week i put together my 1st.never was able to get to the bios setup so just went ahead with the boot of win 8.1.i still cant get into any splash screen ops like del bios setup q flash etc and when i do press these buttons the screen gos black and you can do anything but reset.i tryd it without the hdd or ssd connected but same thing.getting worried big time here.this is a list of parts so ye know what im working

 1tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 3.5" SATA III 6GB
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Quiet CPU Cooler
AMD (Piledriver) FX-6300
Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC AMD Graphics Card - 3GB
120GB Samsung 840 EVO Series 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive SSD
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard
8GB (2x4GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Dual Channel Kit

windows 8.1 starts fine just cant access bios setup/qflash/system information with screen going black.please help

klh591

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Re: cant get to bios setup page,really need some help here
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2014, 03:23:05 pm »
When I have had this problem on different 900 Series chipset motherboards from many different makers it usually has been solved by
changing my USB keyboards to a PS/2 keyboard, just for entry and changes in the BIOS.  After I am done and have saved the
changes in my BIOS and a clean reboot I change back to my USB keyboard.  I keep a PS/2 one just for BIOS changes on my six machines.

Re: cant get to bios setup page,really need some help here
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2014, 03:52:37 pm »
When I have had this problem on different 900 Series chipset motherboards from many different makers it usually has been solved by
changing my USB keyboards to a PS/2 keyboard, just for entry and changes in the BIOS.  After I am done and have saved the
changes in my BIOS and a clean reboot I change back to my USB keyboard.  I keep a PS/2 one just for BIOS changes on my six machines.

thanks for the reply but more problems today,turned on my pc but the screen black,no splash screen and now its not even loading windows just a blank with 1 short post beep which should mean drs no problems.im totally lost now

JGB123

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Re: cant get to bios setup page,really need some help here
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2014, 04:04:02 am »
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