Can't get into bios on Gigabyte z77-D3h

quotidian · 27 Jan 2013 at 14:45

When I turn on the PC the splash comes up but its really zoomed in so its only a small part of it showing.

And no matter how much I hammer the DEL key it still just boots straight to windows?

Sliver · 27 Jan 2013 at 14:48

Have you tried F1 or F2 ?

Nightglow · 27 Jan 2013 at 15:29

Also F10

troops · 27 Jan 2013 at 15:38

Its definately DEL, maybe try reset the bios.

quotidian · 27 Jan 2013 at 16:33

troops said:
Its definately DEL, maybe try reset the bios.

Thanks, I took the battery out and put a knife between the cmos clear pins and it still didn't work.

But taking one of the monitors out of the graphics card seemed to do the trick?

Smoogels · 27 Jan 2013 at 18:04

I had a similar problem but thankfully it worked after a CMOS clear.

Do you know what may have caused the problem and was it fine before?

nlel1975 · 27 Jan 2013 at 18:16

I am having a similar problem, since this morning my PC doesn't show the BIOS screen or Windows loading graphics and the monitor only comes out of standby when Windows has loaded to the login screen.

Am weary of doing a CMOS reset in case I cannot enter my overclocking settings again but it might be the only way to proceed.

What do you think?

quotidian · 27 Jan 2013 at 19:10

Smoogels said:
I had a similar problem but thankfully it worked after a CMOS clear.

Do you know what may have caused the problem and was it fine before?

If I remember correctly, I was reinstalling windows 7 onto it and while I was installing the amd drivers the computer froze up and I had to hard reboot.

nlel1975 · 27 Jan 2013 at 19:13

I went ahead and CMOS reset mine, now can't get anything on screen. Its a new motherboard time for me ;(

Ah well I knackered the USB 3 ports on this one anyway..

quotidian · 28 Jan 2013 at 17:41

It did it again went I went to start it this afternoon.

However taking out the hdmi cable from the graphics card let it start as normal?

Prehaps a graphics issue?

wazza300 · 28 Jan 2013 at 17:42

using latest bios?

quotidian · 28 Jan 2013 at 17:50

wazza300 said:
using latest bios?

I'm nearly sure it says F18, if thats the bios version number.

wazza300 · 28 Jan 2013 at 18:06

f19g is the latest beta bios

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_ga-z77-d3h_f19g.exe

can you access the bios ok now? always flash/update with qflash from within the bios itself and a usb memory stick

to help with stability set the bclk to 100 and cpu voltage response to fast and enable x.m.p if your memory supports it