PC WILL NOT boot into bios. AT ALL.

[Ryan Larson]

Hello, I just installed a kit of 2x16gb 3600 corsair vengeance rgb ram on my pc. I couldn't remember whether or not I enabled XMP before, so I tried to enter Bios. Does not work. pressing or holding f1, f2, f10, delete, don't work. Even manually entering the UEFI settings through windows recovery wont enter bios. It restarts twice when I try this. Looked it up for about an hour and came across fast boot. Turning it off did not work. I'm at a loss. Everything else works perfectly. the new ram is being recognized fully, the pc works fine. Just can enter bios. I don't know what to do. Please help.

ATTENTION: My PC is a prebuilt from Lenovo, the T730 model with i9900k and 2080 super. It is no older than a year. I have booted into bios before, however I'm 90% sure I didn't change anything.

[57chevy]

2 minutes ago, Ryan Larson said:

pressing or holding f1, f2, f10, delete, don't work

Esc key?

[RAM555789]

Might have to short it or pull out the CMOS for like 3-5mins to reset the BIOS.

[Ryan Larson]

Is pulling out the CMOS difficult? would I have to remove per say, my graphics card or AIO/Radiator to access it?

I'm just a little scared of doing too much to damage my pc as it is a prebuilt that is under paid warranty.

[Mark Kaine]

12 hours ago, Ryan Larson said:

ATTENTION

Well you can just check in windows at what speed you RAM is running before doing anything more drastic! 

 

Use GPU-Z to check for example, but it also should tell you in taskmanager in fact. 

[herb]

if its a prebuilt then going into the bios probably wont help. most prebuilts dont allow overclocking (cpu, ram, etc...). unless this is a special prebuilt from lenovo your wasting your time, also if xmp worked on your old ram it should work now.

[herb]

i just looked it up and the t730 has a locked bios. sorry but there is nothing you can do.

[Mark Kaine]

6 minutes ago, herb said:

i just looked it up and the t730 has a locked bios. sorry but there is nothing you can do.

the funny thing is on a normal mobo it shouldn't even boot up after changing ram without going into bios first - in my experience at least. 

[herb]

oem boards dont boot into the bios after a hardware change. all the bios checks for is compatible hardware and if it has compatible hardware then it boots into the os