Question ctrl alt del on bios screen or boot selection shuts down my pc is this normal?

[icareareyou]

motherboard model is GIGABYTE h81m-s2pt

 

[Colif]

ctrl alt del built into ATX standard so it is normal for it to power off or restart using those keys in bios.

The idea to use this key combination as a way to reboot a system originated with an IBM engineer, David Bradley, in 1980 or 1981. The choice of keys and requiring that they be pressed at the same time was intended to make rebooting the system difficult to do accidentally.

https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/definition/Ctrl-Alt-Delete

 

[icareareyou]

ctrl alt del built into ATX standard so it is normal for it to power off or restart using those keys in bios.



https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/definition/Ctrl-Alt-Delete

i thought it should always restart not shut down.

 

[Colif]

You right, it seems it is just restart.

By default, when the operating system is running in real mode (or in a pre-boot environment, when no operating system is started yet), this keystroke combination is intercepted by the BIOS. The BIOS reacts by performing a soft reboot (also known as a warm reboot)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete

I can't find anything on it causing PC to shutdown apart from references to XP, and I doubt you running that on that board?

 

[Saga Lout]

Try Function 10 if you just want to get out of BIOS, saving any changes you nade.

 

[icareareyou]

Try Function 10 if you just want to get out of BIOS, saving any changes you nade.

I just bought this motherboard 2 days age and i was asking if this is a problem and i should replace it?

 

[icareareyou]

You right, it seems it is just restart.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete

I can't find anything on it causing PC to shutdown apart from references to XP, and I doubt you running that on that board?

I was running win 10 and installed 7 today and nothing changed.

 

[Saga Lout]

I just bought this motherboard 2 days age and i was asking if this is a problem and i should replace it?

If it was described as new, contact the seller and tell them the problem but if it was sold as used, the first thing to try is a new CMOS battery. When you start it again, does it show the correct time and date?