Cannot get into bios

[Sven360]

I recently bought a motherboard and installed it. I booted up my computer and got to a screen which prompts me to hit f12 for bios. The lights on the keyboard go on, but keystrokes are not recognized. I have tried moving my usb keyboard to different ports and tried a ps/2 keyboard with no luck. I have also reset the bios by taking the battery out.

Any suggestions? Below are my specs.

GIGABYTE GA-Z170XP-SLI (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Boxed Core I5-6500 FC-LGA14C 3.20 Ghz 6 M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I56500

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2)

EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 80+ GOLD, 850W ECO Mode Fully Modular NVIDIA SLI and Crossfire Ready 10 Year Warranty Power Supply 220-G2-0850-XR

16GB (4x4GB) G.Skill Ripjaws 4 desktop RAM DDR4 2666 MLHz 21300 F4-2666C15Q-16GRR

Logitech G710 Keyboard

 

[clutchc]

Sometimes you have to rapidly tap the respective key (usually DEL or F2) during post. Try rapid tapping as so as the first image comes up on the screen and don't stop.

 

[littleleo]

Usually the DEL key gets you into BIOS. A USB keyboard should be fine. Was this a complete system you built from scratch? What O/S are you using?

 

[Sven360]

Sometimes you have to rapidly tap the respective key (usually DEL or F2) during post. Try rapid tapping as so as the first image comes up on the screen and don't stop.

I went a head and tried that. The first image came up then the screen turns black.

 

[Sven360]

Usually the DEL key gets you into BIOS. A USB keyboard should be fine. Was this a complete system you built from scratch? What O/S are you using?

I built it from scratch, but not all the pieces are new. Everything but the motherboard is a few months old. I'm using windows 10.

 

[littleleo]

You might try disconnecting everything (HDD, DVD, GPU) and only leave one piece of RAM in and try booting up and see if you can get into the BIOS.

 

[Sven360]

You might try disconnecting everything (HDD, DVD, GPU) and only leave one piece of RAM in and try booting up and see if you can get into the BIOS.

I've tried that. I disconnected everything after flashing the cmos.

In the manual it says only part of the USB ports are functional prior to the OS loading, but the ps/2 port is supposed to be fully functional.

**Update** I can hit control alt del and it reboots.

 

[Sven360]

Hello everyone,

I have found a solution to this one. So I ended up getting a Maximus Hero VIII because I thought it was a bad board. I was able to get into Bios with the Maximus board, but ran into similar problem I had with a 3rd board I tried with the same components. As soon as I tried to boot from disk, hd, or USB I would get Windows 10 error msges. After researching the error codes I couldn't find exactly what they were in lamens terms so I called my buddy who is a true wizard. He said the errors I was getting were processor erros. Then I remembered overclocking the processor which wasn't an intel K edition. Only the K editions are overclockable with Intel..

Bought new K edition processor this time and now I'm up and running as well as overclocked on the memory and processor; I let the wizard handle the overclocking this time though =)