Can anyone help? Finding bios on win 8.1

19rich79 · 17 Jul 2016 at 23:19

Hi all, I've read loads but can't find the problem. I can get to my password screen, it displays no network connection but let's me sign In. I then get a black screen and cursor. It is windows 8.1. I can't boot into safe mode using f8 or restart and shift from the password screen. I have the 8.1 discs but do nothing when inserted. My son kindly managed to install mpc cleaner which I had been struggling to remove before crashing. Any ideas would be welcome. Many thanks as always.

19rich79 · 18 Jul 2016 at 08:24

That's great, I'll try it when I get home thanks.

19rich79 · 18 Jul 2016 at 12:01

Hi, unfortunately neither worked, both methods prevented the screen coming on at all. The MPC cleaner appears to have been an issue rather than an attempt at a solution. I don't think he meant to instal it.

Any other ideas? Thanks

19rich79 · 18 Jul 2016 at 15:19

Hi this is my set up
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £107.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £53.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x GAZ97PD3 MB
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £43.99
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Edifier M1370 2.1 Speaker System - Black £19.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £13.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.95

Thanks

19rich79 · 18 Jul 2016 at 15:20

I'm sorry, I would have no idea how to unplug the drive, do you mean removing the hard drive and starting it up again?

Cheers

19rich79 · 19 Jul 2016 at 18:03

Thanks all, the shift key method didn't work, Ill remove the sata cable over the next few days and get back to,

Cheers

19rich79 · 21 Jul 2016 at 11:07

So, I unplugged the sata cable and the monitor wouldn't come on, I also changed the cable to a DVI cable, that didn't work either. Any other ideas greatly appreciated, thanks.

19rich79 · 21 Jul 2016 at 13:31

Hi, is it the two pins labelled clr_cmos sounds too obvious!

19rich79 · 21 Jul 2016 at 13:58

Mmm, done that, now the monitor won't come on!

19rich79 · 21 Jul 2016 at 17:07

Ooh, moved some cables around and it has booted to BIOS has been reset - which should I choose, I think i picked up a virus -
1 - load optimized defaults then boot
2 - load optimized defaults then reboot
3 - Enter BIOS

(I'm very excited)

19rich79 · 21 Jul 2016 at 19:08

Not so excited - I keep getting sent to advanced options, nothing works apart from entering command prompt, then the BCDEDIT line isnt recognised. i'm stuck again, just a little further along. Any ideas.

19rich79 · 21 Jul 2016 at 19:38

Solved, managed to find a safe boot, when I didn't have the disk in, thanks for all your help.