I tried to wake my computer up from sleep mode and the screen just stayed black, then it started boot looping. I had to do a hard shut down by holding the power button. I waited about 10 seconds and then turned it back on and it took me to a screen where it said my BIOS was corrupt and it installed the backup BIOS (from the DUAL BIOS utility). I was at F9 BIOS and it took me all the way back to F7.
My question is why would it do this??? And how do i get back to F9 BIOS? Do i have to use the USB driver and update it with QFLASH? Is that the only way or can i do a system restore and it would go back to f9? I dont know much about computers sorry.
Edit/Update: I just flashed my bios with QFLASH to F9, everything went ok aside from me scaring the sh*t out of myself with the "Unable to boot from unrecognized or damaged partition" screen that freaked me out, but it was because i had optimized defaults loaded and i hadnt set the boot order for my hard drives. (THANK GOD)
Hopefully everything goes ok from now on, except that i have about a 50% chance when i wake from sleep mode to enter a boot loop cycle, its done this about 12 times so far on this machine that ive owned for about 2 weeks now. I've googled searched options for power config adjustments and done just about everything i can do in the windows power configuration settings. I've pretty much given up on it and will never put my computer in sleep mode again unless someone can help me fix it.
Processor (Intel® Core™ i7 3820 Processor (4x 3.60GHz/10MB L3 Cache)))
Processor Cooling (Asetek 550LC Liquid CPU Cooling System (Intel) - Standard 120mm Fan))
Memory (16 GB [4 GB X4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair Vengeance))
Video Card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 1GB - Single Card))
Power Supply (750 Watt - Corsair CMPSU-750TXV2))
Motherboard ([3-Way SLI] Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 -- 4x PCI-E x16, 6x SATA 6Gb/s))
Primary Hard Drive ( 120GB ADATA S510))
Data Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive )))
Optical Drive (24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black))
Operating System (Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit)