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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Loukas on October 12, 2011, 09:46:29 am

Title: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: Loukas on October 12, 2011, 09:46:29 am

I bought the Z68XP-UD4, with an i7 2600 cpu, 16Gb of DDR3, the motherboard came with F1 bios version

When I boot the PC it loads win 7 pro 64 with no issues, everything goes well, but if I boot and try to enter the bios to change settings (pressing DEL), nothing happens, and after 30 secs it starts loading windows, but with no success, it freezes so I have to reboot.

I updated the Bios version to F4 with the Windows utility, but it just behaves the same....

any suggestion? ???

thanks!

Title: Re: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: teknology9 on October 12, 2011, 09:57:39 am

Hi,


Have you read this?


http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2441.0.html

Title: Re: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: Loukas on October 12, 2011, 11:57:38 am

thanks for your answer,

Not sure I get your point  ???, My problem was there with ver. F1, so I updated to ver. F4 and the problem is still there, no luck

I have no indication that the update process went wrong, so, do you mean that doing the update with an USB pendrive could fix the issue?

Thanks

Title: Re: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: teknology9 on October 12, 2011, 12:10:54 pm

Quote

I updated the Bios version to F4 with the Windows utility, but it just behaves the same....

No, I mean have you used the Qflash utility but using a pen drive is recommended also, what have you been using? Have you read all of the post and followed the advice? It is all there in the post, if you are still having problems it may be a good idea to contact Technical Support.

If you use a pen drive ensure that it is formatted in FAT 32, something like a SanDisk Cruzer Edge pen drive.

Title: Re: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: Dark Mantis on October 12, 2011, 12:28:50 pm

Hi

The problem of entering the BIOS during boot up is either  the keyboard isn't compatible with the system during DOS sessions or you haven't enabled the Legacy USB Support in the BIOS so that you have DOS drivers loaded. If you have a PS2 keyboard try using that while you are wanting to make changes to the BIOS. You can always swap it back to the USB type afterwards but do remember to shut down the system before plugging or unplugging the PS2 keyboard or you can cause damage to the controller.

Title: Re: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: Loukas on October 12, 2011, 12:39:25 pm

ok, thanks, I will try changing the keyboard to see if that works.... fingers crossed

Title: Re: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: Loukas on October 12, 2011, 03:22:20 pm

Solved :)

funny, but I used the Qflash utility with a pen drive to upgrade to F4 and the problem was fixed....., I wonder why the @BIOS utility is officially supported if fails so much.

Thanks ALL!

Title: Re: Z68XP-UD4 unable to enter the Bios
Post by: teknology9 on October 12, 2011, 03:41:51 pm

Nice one Loukas!!!  :)

You see I told you to read through post carefully, you now know what to do in the future.


Well, thank absic and DM for writing the post in the first place!!!! :D

Teknology9