motherboard won't save bios settings to boot up to windows properly

[SlasherSquid01]

I recently bought a Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 motherboard, i7 4770k cpu ddr3 corsair vengeance ram and a 500 hardrive on gumtree he proved it worked and everything by showing pictures that it boots into windows 10 but when l hocked everything up it wouldn't load into windows 10 and had an error. I asked him about his and he said to change the ram frequency to 1600 and it should work So l did that and it was fine it booted up to windows 10 but when l shut it down again and restarted it for some reason it had the same problem l went back into the bios and everything was reset even though l saved it it still reset so l changed the battery on the motherboard didn't work tried wiping everything didn't work I changed the motherboard battery same result cleared the COMS still refused to save I don't know why the bios settings are not saving and l can't think of anything else to do

Please help!

 

[Colif]

your deleted message makes me think you should try this: http://www.tcsscreening.com/files/users/IPDT_LiveUSB/index.html

its a start anyway, only as Machine Check Exceptions are errors called by the CPU.

I don't know if a bad CPU can make BIOS forget its boot settings

 

[SlasherSquid01]

ok l will try that

 

[SlasherSquid01]

nope nothing

 

[Colif]

Can you download and run who crashed - it will give us a glimpse of the errors you getting and might help us solve them

Copy/paste summary in here and I see what I can do

 

[SlasherSquid01]

alright

 

[SlasherSquid01]

can I use this instead https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/19792/Intel-Processor-Diagnostic-Tool

because I'm getting confused on how to download the http://www.tcsscreening.com/files/users/IPDT_ Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool Overview

 

[SlasherSquid01]

i just tested it yeah nothing is the problem with the cpu

 

[SlasherSquid01]

still can't find a solution

 

[Colif]

My latest idea is the motherboard is the problem since its not cmos, and not CPU.

I will see if anyone has any other ideas.

 

[Onus]

You say you changed the battery; do you know that the new battery is good?

Is the CLRCMOS jumper just exposed pins to short, or is there a jumper cap? If a cap, make sure it's not either missing, or was left in the reset position.

 

[SlasherSquid01]

l can't even see the jumper on my z97x-gaming 7 motherboard where is it? and l will re switch the the battery again but the date and time are accurate so yeah

 

[SlasherSquid01]

O
found the jumper but it only has 2 pins and nothing on top

 

[Colif]

Have you got motherboard manual? If not, you can get it here: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z97X-Gaming-7-rev-10#support-manual

On page 22 it shows your motherboards choice of bios, as it has 2, wonder which one you are using.

It also shows where the Clear CMOS button is - your motherboard has it and the jumper pins (which shouldn't have a cap on them)

To clear the CMOS first you need to unplug the computer from the power socket. Then check:
1) If your motherboard is equipped with Clear CMOS button then press it.
2) If your motherboard has CLR_CMOS (Clearing CMOS) jumper then place a jumper cap on the two pins to temporarily short them or use a metal object like a screwdriver to short these pins for 5 seconds. Put the jumper back in it's default position (open).
3) If above methods fail then you need to remove the CMOS battery (small silver disk) and then use method 2) and additionally wait for 10 minutes. Instead of waiting you can use a metal object like a screwdriver to touch the positive and negative terminals of the battery holder (NOT the battery!), making them short for 5 seconds. Replace the battery.

https://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=2286.0

I wonder if the current BIOS is corrupted and loading a new one onto motherboard would fix it. Page 91 of manual shows the ideal way to do it.

 

[SlasherSquid01]

wow thanks l will message back if l fix it

 

[SlasherSquid01]

FIXED IT THANK YOU I TRIED EVERYTHING FOR IT TO WORK Press the blue button which rests the bios,change the battery,download drivers,updated the bios trying to fix this for 2 weeks thank you all l did was hold the black button down for 5 sec and it saved the settings rebooted it 5 times in a row they were all successful boots

Thank you!!!! 😀😀😀