URGENT - bios frozen

[xFluing]

I was messing around in my bios and it just froze like this. I did not change any values whatsoever, but its stuck like this now and I'm afraid to restart it. Ctrl alt delete does nothing the only option is to hard reset, but im kinda scared to do so.

 

My motherboard is an A68HM-E33 from MSI.

 

Edit: I shut it down for the time being but im afraid something is gonna fry if i try to start it up again

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Edited January 31, 2018 by xFluing

[ProjectBox153]

Did you restart it?

[xFluing]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Did you restart it?

No, I shut it down now and I'm afraid to boot it up

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, xFluing said:

No, I shut it down now and I'm afraid to boot it up

Well, try to boot it. You won't know if it works until you try to power it on.

[xFluing]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Well, try to boot it. You won't know if it works until you try to power it on.

Ok then, but if something gets fried what is the first thing I should do? Unplug the psu from the wall?

[RollinLower]

12 minutes ago, xFluing said:

Ok then, but if something gets fried what is the first thing I should do? Unplug the psu from the wall?

if something fries it will probbaly happen faster then you can react. like split-second.

you should be fine tough. 

[xFluing]

1 minute ago, RollinLower said:

if something fries it will probbaly happen faster then you can react. like split-second.

you should be fine tough. 

Im afraid something really bad is gonna happen, I have this brandless psu I've used for 3 years and I think it's finally caught up with itself

[RollinLower]

Just now, xFluing said:

Im afraid something really bad is gonna happen, I have this brandless psu I've used for 3 years and I think it's finally caught up with itself

if the PSU died you would have noticed it by now. They tend to die in a pretty spectacular fashion

just power it on, it will probbaly be fine. if nothing died when it froze, nothing will die now.

[Arika]

1 minute ago, xFluing said:

Im afraid something really bad is gonna happen, I have this brandless psu I've used for 3 years and I think it's finally caught up with itself

well your other option is to just leave your computer off forever

[xFluing]

1 minute ago, RollinLower said:

if the PSU died you would have noticed it by now. They tend to die in a pretty spectacular fashion

just power it on, it will probbaly be fine. if nothing died when it froze, nothing will die now.

Thats thw thing it may not have died then, but this boot might be the thing that would push it over the edge

[RollinLower]

Just now, xFluing said:

Thats thw thing it may not have died then, but this boot might be the thing that would push it over the edge

only one way to find out!

[Xander Cousins]

@RollinLower You seem like the person to egg someone on to do something they don't want to.

 

Any how @xFluing you only got one option unless you have a secondary PSU to use to boot it up. Sooooo You might as well bite the bullet and power it up to see if it runs. If you think your PSU is near time you might as well swap it out for your peace of mind. Secondly You are gonna have to boot it up sometime unless your willing to transfer to Console or Mobile Gaming?

[RollinLower]

4 minutes ago, Alex Colson said:

@RollinLower You seem like the person to egg someone on to do something they don't want to.

 

Any how @xFluing you only got one option unless you have a secondary PSU to use to boot it up. Sooooo You might as well bite the bullet and power it up to see if it runs. If you think your PSU is near time you might as well swap it out for your peace of mind. Secondly You are gonna have to boot it up sometime unless your willing to transfer to Console or Mobile Gaming?

i mean, a frozen BIOS isn;t really anything to worry about tough. just reboot and see what happens. 99.9999% of the time you will be fine.

[Xander Cousins]

3 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

i mean, a frozen BIOS isn;t really anything to worry about tough. just reboot and see what happens. 99.9999% of the time you will be fine.

Eh? BIOS Freezes aren't bad unless all your fans started going 90 after. The fact he didn't want to switch of his Rig would state they where remaining at the RPM they where set at upon launch. So just could have been the System having a brain fart  

[xFluing]

1 hour ago, Alex Colson said:

Eh? BIOS Freezes aren't bad unless all your fans started going 90 after. The fact he didn't want to switch of his Rig would state they where remaining at the RPM they where set at upon launch. So just could have been the System having a brain fart  

Yeah the fans didnt ramp all the way up, but there wasnt really a way to tell as i set my case fan at 100% constantly, and my cpu cooler has a 120mm fan so its pretty silent the only fan that could have given it away is the gpu fan, that one is loud but that did not ramp up at all either

[Xander Cousins]

Just now, xFluing said:

Yeah the fans didnt ramp all the way up, but there wasnt really a way to tell as i set my case fan at 100% constantly, and my cpu cooler has a 120mm fan so its pretty silent the only fan that could have given it away is the gpu fan, that one is loud but that did not ramp up at all either

Your fans have a Set RPM. Like 1200RPM or lower or greater. This is an RPM set within a tolerance level. Doesn't mean it can't or wont go over that RPM if able to, I know this as a School Computer Was acting up not posting and was slowy but surely spinning it's fan pass the threshold for it as you couldn't hear a time where it levelled out at a max limit.

[Ace McPlane]

2 hours ago, xFluing said:

I was messing around in my bios and it just froze like this. I did not change any values whatsoever, but its stuck like this now and I'm afraid to restart it. Ctrl alt delete does nothing the only option is to hard reset, but im kinda scared to do so.

 

My motherboard is an A68HM-E33 from MSI.

 

Edit: I shut it down for the time being but im afraid something is gonna fry if i try to start it up again

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Actually, in my experience when this happens, it's not usually actually the bios freezing, but the mouse and keyboard dropping out and not working.

How certain are you that that's not what it was?

 

You can upgrade the bios if you want with a USB stick and a new bios from the MSI support page for the board. Just make sure you do it when there's no chance of a power outage as if the power cuts out or the thumb stick gets pulled out while doing a bios update, it bricks your board for good and becomes a paperweight.