BSoD after clearing CMOS?

AcidDark · 19 Oct 2013 at 22:55

Hi there. Today I cleared the CMOS on my PC so that my keyboard worked as it should. After doing so I noticed that my PC freezes regularly on the Blue Screen of Death when playing games such as Skyrim etc. It never did that before clearing CMOS. How do I fix this?

wazza300 · 20 Oct 2013 at 00:10

can you list pc parts?

AcidDark · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:31

RAM = Crucilal Ballistix 8GB kit 1600 2 x 4GB
GPU = Sapphire HD 7970
CPU = intel i5 4670k
Motherboard = Asus Z87 A
HDD = Western Digital Blue 1TB
SSD = Samsung Evo 120GB
CPU Cooler = Hyper 212 EVO Processor Cooler
PSU = Corsair CX750M
Optical Drive = LiteOn IHOS104 4x BD-ROM SATA Blu-Ray

AcidDark · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:32

I cleared CMOS to make my keyboard function properly but now its messing up again and I need to do it again.

smogsy · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:43

is your harddrive in the right mode?

you know ide mode achi mode raid mode

when you reset your cmos it would have reset that so if you was in achi mode you would get a bsod

AcidDark · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:49

what should it be? ide? Clearing CMOS fixed my keyboard issues yesterday but now the issues are back, what can i do?

wazza300 · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:56

it simply wont boot if its in the wrong sata mode(ahci anyway)

are you running latest motherboard bios? id do that first,and what keyboard issues are you having? make sure your usb3 drivers are upto date or try keyboard on the usb2 ports if you have them

enable x.m.p in the bios to setup your memory correctly then see if it bsod's again

Idleman · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:56

AcidDark said:
what should it be? ide? Clearing CMOS fixed my keyboard issues yesterday but now the issues are back, what can i do?

Assuming your OS is on the ssd, you want to be in ACHI mode.
Also assuming, your keyboard is USB, have you tried it in another port or updated your USB drivers?
And what actually are the "issues" with the keyboard?

AcidDark · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:03

i have the latest motherboard bios. I'm using the keyboard in one of the usb 2.0 slots at the back of my mobo. The issues are: 1, when trying to type it sometimes will not register the key presses; 2, sometimes when I type it acts as if i have sticky keys enabled and it sometimes continuously types the same key. e.g. GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I know its not the keyboard at fault as its brand new and the exact same thing happened with my last one. I cleared CMOS yesterday and it was all working fine. But today the problems back again.

AcidDark · 20 Oct 2013 at 12:18

menus freeze on certain games as well. never use to do that