Get into bios once, never twice. Random?

[tobi]

Alright Boys and Girls, 

 

Sorry to bother you all on a thanksgiving Monday like today. 

 

System:
MB: ASUS Tuf B550M Plus

CPU: 3950x

RAM: 2x32GB 3200mhz CL16

GPU: RX580 / WX4100 / R9 380 ITX

PSU: Corsair SF750 / EVGA 1300w G.

 

Issue:

Just changed to new motherboard from Strix ITX, all parts have worked superduper before the new MB.

Will start and get to post screen, greet with the Press Del / F1 options and get into Bios. Once out of  bios and rebooted it will just be a black blank screen and the bios light on MB will not turn off. 

Have been able to randomly try a couple of the tactics below and get back into Bios, but only once and then back on black screen and boot light. 
Got once in to update to latest Bios but once restarted black screen.
Got once in to change boot to windows thumb drive but once restarted just black screen.

 

Tried tactics: 

Switch GPU to check sceen. 
Remove all SSD/M.2. 
Format said M.2 on difference PC and put one / all back in.

Try different PSU and costum / stock cables. 

Unplug, clear Cmos, and power back on.

Unplug, clear Cmos, remove battery, reset and power back on.

Unplug, unplug 24pin/8pin, remove battery, clear cmos, power back on.

 

 

Starting to think its a MB problem but I do acually get into bios even if its very far and between. And only once and never twice. 

Anyone have any great tips that I may have not thought of before?

Many cheers,

 

 

 

 

[goatedpenguin]

u need be more specific about what color the light is

 

try going to windows safe mode and eneter the command on cmd: CHKDSK /f and type Y when prompted 

[SpookyCitrus]

Sounds like once you exit the bios it's trying to find a boot partition. This is completely normal, if you exit the bios it will try to load any and all available boot options if none are present it will either reboot or go back into bios, and sometimes it can take awhile or if a drive isn't properly formatted it may still have a boot partition on it. I would recommend hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE after it black screens after exiting bios to see if it is restarting properly. It's a B550 board so it most likely has a few bios updates that need to be done. If this were my computer below are the steps I would take.

 

1. Update Bios to newest version.

2. Install Windows properly.

3. Test if it's functioning properly.

[tobi]

On 10/10/2022 at 1:10 PM, SpookyCitrus said:

Sounds like once you exit the bios it's trying to find a boot partition. This is completely normal, if you exit the bios it will try to load any and all available boot options if none are present it will either reboot or go back into bios, and sometimes it can take awhile or if a drive isn't properly formatted it may still have a boot partition on it. I would recommend hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE after it black screens after exiting bios to see if it is restarting properly. It's a B550 board so it most likely has a few bios updates that need to be done. If this were my computer below are the steps I would take.

 

1. Update Bios to newest version.

2. Install Windows properly.

3. Test if it's functioning properly.

Thank you for your reply! 

I have updated Bios to latest version. 
Problem is I cant install windows since screen will stay black after reboot. 

And if I manage to get screen to come back on, its back on square one, Press F1 to enter bios. Where I have one shot to set boot priorities, but then again once rebooted its all black screen again. 

On 10/10/2022 at 12:59 PM, swabro said:

u need be more specific about what color the light is

 

On This Asus board its a green light. 

 

On 10/10/2022 at 1:03 PM, swabro said:

try going to windows safe mode and eneter the command on cmd: CHKDSK /f and type Y when prompted 

Fresh motherboard, so dosn't have anything installed on it. So I cant go into windows / install OS.

[goatedpenguin]

1 hour ago, tobi said:

Thank you for your reply! 

I have updated Bios to latest version. 
Problem is I cant install windows since screen will stay black after reboot. 

And if I manage to get screen to come back on, its back on square one, Press F1 to enter bios. Where I have one shot to set boot priorities, but then again once rebooted its all black screen again. 

 

On This Asus board its a green light. 

 

Fresh motherboard, so dosn't have anything installed on it. So I cant go into windows / install OS.

windows causes so many problems

[goatedpenguin]

si the green light flashing or still

[goatedpenguin]

I may have found the solution: KEEP IN MIND THAT THE GREEN LED MEANS THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR BOOT PORCESS MEANING THAT YOUR STORAGFE DRIVES CAN BE THE PROBLEM or it is a mobo problem which means u may have to rma it if possible.

 

 

go to part D in the video btw

 

try also putting ur drives on a different slot and sata connector 

[tobi]

2 hours ago, swabro said:

si the green light flashing or still

Just endless still. 

 

2 hours ago, swabro said:

try also putting ur drives on a different slot and sata connector 

I've tried different m.2's, just one in different slot ect. 

Don't really use sata anymore but plugged one in just för giggles.

2 hours ago, swabro said:

go to part D in the video btw

Yeah, unfortunately found that video too without success. 

 

Might be a RMA kinda deal I guess...

[goatedpenguin]

this is probably a motherboard being faulty with its boot and its cmos being corrupt menaing that it has a faulty boot 

 

I am just curious but why not install Linux just eliminate that its the mobo and not something else, the idea may be a long shot but I recommend doing it if u are comfortable. if it is however working we can say that ur usb stick that ur using may be faulty and u may have a corroupted disk image/iso

 

or how about this try putting ur drives in ur old mobo and see if that works instead of going through the trouble of installing a non user friendly os 

[tobi]

2 hours ago, swabro said:

or how about this try putting ur drives in ur old mobo and see if that works instead of going through the trouble of installing a non user friendly os 

Everything was running great on previous motherboard, and all drives work and show up when I connect them to a different PC. 

 

2 hours ago, swabro said:

I am just curious but why not install Linux just eliminate that its the mobo and not something else, the idea may be a long shot but I recommend doing it if u are comfortable. if it is however working we can say that ur usb stick that ur using may be faulty and u may have a corroupted disk image/iso

Love Linux and been running dual boot for years (Still noob tho). However its really hard to install anything at all when one can't get past the boot screen. 

 

 

Thank you so much for your help and all the ideas!

 

[tobi]

3 hours ago, swabro said:

or how about this try putting ur drives in ur old mobo and see if that works instead of going through the trouble of installing a non user friendly os 

Omg. Classic by now I feel like. 

I waited a couple of days until I posted here because I figured I would eventually solve it. 

But it kept beeing really odd and random. 

 

For some reason today just as i placed an order for a new motherboard and was about to take out and clean this one I unplugged the DisplayPort cable and left the HDMI in. 

 

It booted up into bios, and more importantly let me boot up again and install windows. 

 

Everything seems to be working out fine now. 

 

 

Edit:

Turns out to be a faulty dp connector. So silly me!

Sorry to take up your time and thanks guys so much!

[goatedpenguin]

well thats a bruh moment anyway happy that its working now

 

btw when setting up a pc never use dp always use hedmi first as the gpu drives not being updates cause lots of problems