Need to enable CSM on ASUS mb, BIOS won't display

silverxpenguin · September 7, 2019

I recently built my first pc after having a pre-built for a number of years, so I am kinda new to some of this. My problem is that my bios and my graphics card aren't playing nice while I'm in the bios screen, so I can't actually see the screen when the system is there. I know it goes to the bios screen because it still responds to commands, like F10 for save and exit. The one time I was able to see the bios screen I got a message about how the GPU driver wasn't compatible and so CSM would be applied (or something like that, unfortunately I wasn't paying enough attention to it). I managed to setup windows and boot the system finally. After I updated all the drivers and software in the system, I lastly updated the bios. I didn't know at the time that this would reset all of my bios settings, so now I can no longer see the bios when it comes up. I have no idea what originally triggered the bios to change the CSM setting because I wasn't touching the system at all when the change happened.

My specs:

Ryzen 3600

G.Skill 3200Mhz 16GB(F4-3200C14D-16GVK)

ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI)

ASUS ROG STRIX RTX2080TI-A11G-GAMING

Seasonic Focus Plus 650 Gold

2x XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro 1TB

BIOS v. 1005

release date: 8\1\2019

*All software is up to date*

I've tried resetting CMOS, taking out the battery, no luck. It seems that CSM is disabled by default. I contacted ASUS support, they seemed unable to grasp what the problem was, which is understandable as it is very odd.

So what I am 90% sure the solution to my problem is just re-enabling CSM. The problem to this once again is that I cannot get a visual of what settings I am changing and I didn't have enough time to commit the bios layout to memory. If anyone has the same motherboard and bios and would be willing to layout the step by step keystrokes for enabling CSM, or knows of some video or pictures that show the details of ASUS bios, I would be eternally grateful.

Also, just as a interesting point, the graphics card 1 bin above mine is supported, but for whatever reason mine isn't.