My pc is getting stuck at the bios screen in a infinite loop.

[Brady_3]

So, I just built my own pc a month ago and it has worked perfectly. Last Friday I went on vacation and I was away from my pc for the weekend so it was never turned on for a few days. When I come back I face this issue. I have tried alot of different things. Taking the hard drive out, ram etc. Another very funky thing is on the bios screen when i go in it says my motherboard is 126 C which when i feel it, it doesnt feel hot at all... So I'm really scared and curious if anyone on here could help me out?

 

[SchizTech]

Have you tried to reset the BIOS settings? There's a way to do that in the hardware, by popping out a little round button battery (make sure the PC is unplugged when you do this, since the point is to drain all power from the chip holding the BIOS settings). Keep it off for around a minute then restart.

126C is clearly an erroneous reading though. Suffice it to say that if a chip hit that temp it's already in the microchip afterlife - that's hotter than boiling water. No chip would actually be running, let alone well enough to report the temp.

What make and model is the board?

 

[Brady_3]

Have you tried to reset the BIOS settings? There's a way to do that in the hardware, by popping out a little round button battery (make sure the PC is unplugged when you do this, since the point is to drain all power from the chip holding the BIOS settings). Keep it off for around a minute then restart.

126C is clearly an erroneous reading though. Suffice it to say that if a chip hit that temp it's already in the microchip afterlife - that's hotter than boiling water. No chip would actually be running, let alone well enough to report the temp.

What make and model is the board?

It is an msi b 150 m3 and i will try that and get back to you

 

[Brady_3]

Have you tried to reset the BIOS settings? There's a way to do that in the hardware, by popping out a little round button battery (make sure the PC is unplugged when you do this, since the point is to drain all power from the chip holding the BIOS settings). Keep it off for around a minute then restart.

126C is clearly an erroneous reading though. Suffice it to say that if a chip hit that temp it's already in the microchip afterlife - that's hotter than boiling water. No chip would actually be running, let alone well enough to report the temp.

What make and model is the board?

where exactly is the thing I take off to reset it?

 

[SchizTech]

On the board, there should be a little round battery. It's a shiny metallic button somewhere, maybe hidden under a PCIe card or something.

According to a picture I see online, it's between the first two PCIE x16 slots, (next to the shorter x1 slot) on that particular board

 

[SchizTech]

There should be a little tab on the socket holding the battery, which you can press on with something small and flat to pop the battery out.

 

[Brady_3]

There should be a little tab on the socket holding the battery, which you can press on with something small and flat to pop the battery out.

the metallic thing where my video card goes?

 

[SchizTech]

I'm not sure what you're referring to by that. Maybe you'll have to pull out the card to get to the battery, since if that pic I see is accurate and the card is installed in the top slot, it sits above the battery.

 

[mamasan2000]

On the motherboard. Check manual if you can't find it, could be hidden under CPU-cooler etc. Most motherboards also have 2 pins which you can short out for a few secs with anything metallic to accomplish the same effect (resetting BIOS settings).

 

[Brady_3]

I'm not sure what you're referring to by that. Maybe you'll have to pull out the card to get to the battery, since if that pic I see is accurate and the card is installed in the top slot, it sits above the battery.

Well hopefully i took the right thing out. Here is a picture of what i took at https://gyazo.com/0bf84cc9e4007d825bb622c433cb3b91
how long do i have to leave it off?

 

[SchizTech]

Yes, that's the battery. A minute or so should be long enough. Then you can reboot (put the card back in if there's no onboard graphics)

 

[Brady_3]

Yes, that's the battery. A minute or so should be long enough. Then you can reboot (put the card back in if there's no onboard graphics)

Tried that, still no luck ):

 

[SchizTech]

OK, is everything alright in the BIOS settings (aside from the wonky temperature)? Take a look at the boot settings in particular. If 8/8.1/10 are installed there's a good chance they were installed with UEFI mode enabled and Secure Boot enabled. If the boot mode is "legacy" or "Compatibility" (different terms for the same thing) that might not let Windows boot up.

 

[mamasan2000]

By infinite boot loop, how many times has your machine booted? Some mobos tend to boot 3-5 times til they detect an error and let's you enter BIOS to fix settings.
Try Reset to defaults. And set harddrive to IDE or AHCI, whatever you set it to before (AHCI is recommended). If you set it to wrong, it won't detect your harddrive.

Is your CPU-fan connected?

 

[Brady_3]

By infinite boot loop, how many times has your machine booted? Some mobos tend to boot 3-5 times til they detect an error and let's you enter BIOS to fix settings.
Try Reset to defaults. And set harddrive to IDE or AHCI, whatever you set it to before (AHCI is recommended). If you set it to wrong, it won't detect your harddrive.

Is your CPU-fan connected?

it is on AHCI however it sayss 'hotplug' disabled. Is that anything special? Yes my cpu is fan connected.

 

[SchizTech]

Hotplug isn't relevant to this. That would just let you plug or unplug SATA drives when the system is on, like you do with USB devices.

Have you looked for UEFI mode setting there?

 

[Brady_3]

Hotplug isn't relevant to this. That would just let you plug or unplug SATA drives when the system is on, like you do with USB devices.

Have you looked for UEFI mode setting there?

Yep I tried all the options under that and all the same results. it's odd to me that the cpu temp stays at 126 and never moves. I almost feel like something is just broken hardware wise.

 

[SchizTech]

Well, last possibility is to update BIOS from this

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B150-GAMING-M3.html#down-bios

grab the newest version (B.5) unzip and copy to flash drive. You should be able to run it from within the tools section in the BIOS

 

[Brady_3]

Well, last possibility is to update BIOS from this

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B150-GAMING-M3.html#down-bios

grab the newest version (B.5) unzip and copy to flash drive. You should be able to run it from within the tools section in the BIOS

Where do I find the tools option in the bios so I can run it?

 

[SchizTech]

I can't say for sure since I don't have that particular BIOS. Some BIOS may name it differently, like Utilities. Poke around and there should be a BIOS update tool somewhere in there. Once there, point the update utility to the file on the flash drive.

 

[Brady_3]

I can't say for sure since I don't have that particular BIOS. Some BIOS may name it differently, like Utilities. Poke around and there should be a BIOS update tool somewhere in there. Once there, point the update utility to the file on the flash drive.

Updated, still nothing. Another thing I forgot to mention is when I turn the pc off from the infinite loop and turn it back on it then says prepairing automatic repair and it loops with that messsage as well. Tried leaving it on for an hour with it and nothing.

 

[SchizTech]

Automatic repair is a Windows process, so to get to that point some part of Windows has booted. If you can get that far there may be hope. What I'd like to suggest next is to re-install Windows. If you don't have your disk you can download a disk image from MS:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/home

Make sure you have your license key at hand (if you had 10 on there it will re-install without a key but not earlier versions. IF you had an earlier version, you can install 10 and activate with a 7 or 8 key). If you need to save your files, do you have another system you can connect the hard drive to? Otherwise, you can use a boot disk like Ubuntu (in the Ubuntu disk there's the option to "Try Ubuntu" which runs the OS off the DVD without touching the drive, and it understands Windows hard drives)

 

[Brady_3]

Automatic repair is a Windows process, so to get to that point some part of Windows has booted. If you can get that far there may be hope. What I'd like to suggest next is to re-install Windows. If you don't have your disk you can download a disk image from MS:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/home

Make sure you have your license key at hand (if you had 10 on there it will re-install without a key but not earlier versions. IF you had an earlier version, you can install 10 and activate with a 7 or 8 key). If you need to save your files, do you have another system you can connect the hard drive to? Otherwise, you can use a boot disk like Ubuntu (in the Ubuntu disk there's the option to "Try Ubuntu" which runs the OS off the DVD without touching the drive, and it understands Windows hard drives)

So I have windows 10 installed on my flash drive and my serial code ready so what do i do now? And also I have the old windows 10 on the same flash drive I had before so do i delete that as well?

 

[SchizTech]

Plug the bootable flash drive into the PC, boot up and boot from it. If it doesn't load, try hitting F11 or F12 (varies by mobo model) for boot menu or go to the BIOS settings to set the flash drive as first boot priority. Then go through it's process, format the drive and let it do it's thing. To be safe I might delete all the partitions and then let it create new ones.

 

[SchizTech]

If you already had 10, you shouldn't need the key - once the PC gets online (if it gets that far) it will automatically activate.