Can't get into bios

[Wayne]

Hi,
I have a GAZ68X-UD7-B3 board, ver.1, F10 bios, Giga 6970 card, core i5 2500k, stock, 1866 G.Skill 8 GB ram, WD Blue Caviar 500gb running Win7 64-bit. All has been running well until I noticed today that I can't for the first time get into the bios at all. Yesterday I installed my used Samsung HD103UJ hdd, and formatted its partition to use as a back up drive. I'm not sure if this is what caused the problem or not. Try as I might the Del key or any other key for that matter that one would normally use to access the bios doesn't seem to work. I've removed the used drive and tried a restore point using RestoreIT but to no avail. Any ideas.
Cheers.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

It is probably due to your keyboard. If you are using a USB one then you need to have Legacy USB enabled in the BIOS for it to be recognised at boot up before windows loads. Try a PS2 instead.

[Wayne]

As it turns out it was a usb problem though not my keyboard. I plugged a usb 3.0 hub into one of the rear outlets and that's what was causing my not being able to access the bios. Unplug it and I'm back into the bios as per normal. I'm not too sure whether these usb 3.0 connectors are a sound proposition. Anyhow up and running (for now), touch wood. Thanks for your help.
Cheers.