The things in question:
Gigabyte G1 Killer Assassin 2 rev.1
3D BIOS UEFI DualBIOS
Sandisk Ultra II 480gb
I bought a sandisk ultra ii 480gb and installed it into my computer. My mobo is a Gigabyte G1 Killer Assassin 2. I was able to boot up normally with my old hard drive and I cloned my old hard drive into the SSD. So I wanted to check if it worked by changing the boot order to have my SSD be first. So I went into the 3D BIOS UEFI DualBIOS menu and did the following:
AHCI option is checked. I checked the "Boot Option" and it only showed my old hard drive. So I went and clicked "Override Boot Option" and selected my SSD. No change in boot speed.
I went back and tried to figure out whats wrong. Didn't know what so I selected "Load Optimized Defaults" because I wanted everything to be default and fresh. I then went back and looked at the option "Hard Drive BBS Priorities" and saw my SSD there so I set my SSD as the first, followed by my old hard drive.
I exited out and now... I hear one short beep which happens everytime I boot up my computer so thats normal for me. I see that my splash screen showing the G1 Killer logo is like only 25% of the size of my screen than usual and it hangs there. 4 short beeps follows afterwards in an interval of 20-30 seconds each. In that time, I can't press any buttons to go anywhere, not even the bios. Also, don't know if this is important but every time I press a button, I hear a dull clicking noise coming from the computer or the motherboard. After that, it leads me to a black screen with a blinking underscore and thats it. I even waited 30mins to see if it goes past the blinking underscore.
I decided to do the following:
Re-seating memory sticks and GPU.
Unplugging all peripherals and unplugging my HDD and SDD.
Removing CMOS batttery for 30 minutes and putting it back in.
Pressed the button for CMOS_CLR stated in the motherboard manual.
Also, I dont know when this happened while tinkering around in the computer, but my cpu fan stopped spinning. I know it was working before I started messing around in the bios settings.
Is the motherboard fried or is the CPU responsible for the small splash screen and blinking underscore?