Cannot acces my BIOS

[balloons 5]

about two months ago i built a PC with these specs:

 

Intel Core i5 4460

Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3

8Gb Kingston single channel

1TB Sata HDD

Windows 8.1 Pro

 

After i built my pc i wanted to buy a graphics card

I went with a Radeon R9 280X Dual-X 3Gb GDDR5

However, after i plugged in the GPU and installed the latest driver, i saw that my PC didn't recognise the graphics card. It was working, but it didn't affect the gaming perfomance whatsoever.

A friend advised me to go to the BIOS and command the PC to recognise the GPU instead of the built in graphics interface(Intel HD graphics 4600), but when i restarted the computer and tried to acces the BIOS, it didn't work! after i pressed the BIOS key (delete) nothing happened eccept for that the screen went pitch black.

I don't think the problem is with the motherboard because i managed to acces the BIOS before, and now i can't! 

the PC itself works fine.

[thekeemo]

try using Delete

[TheGamingBarrel]

Did you plug the cable into the GPU?

[Dzzope]

It should be in the manual which button to press.

 

Make sure your screen is connected to the video card and not the on-board

 

If the screen goes blank, try changing which output your connected to. (between the different ones on the GPU and the on-board)

If your still having problems, try remove the GPU, go into the bios and change the setting from on-board to PCI-e

save&exit, shutdown, re-install the GPU and re-try

 

Also, make sure you have the power connectors going to the GPU.(Simple but it's a possibility)

[Parallax321]

Did you try to go to bios without graphics card and is monitor plugged into gpu?

[pedro69]

Do you have ultrafast boot option enabled in the bios?

[Rooah]

Do you have a PS/2 keyboard you can use? I know with my usb keyboard it takes a second or you for the motherboard to recognize it during boot-up, maybe you just don't have enough time. 

 

Have you tried booting without your OS drive connected? I should think you could get into BIOS that way.

 

If all else fails reset cmos by pulling the motherboard battery.

[balloons 5]

big thanks for all of you, i finally managed to fix the problem. it was something with the gpu not functioning so i replaced it and nw everything is dandy . thanks again!