Faulty Hardware?

implosiveturnip · 10 Jul 2015 at 15:04

a short could do any crazy amount of things/damage to your machine. If it's done something whilst you've been flashing the BIOS, then you're (probably) stuffed. You say there's a backup BIOS? there should be a physical switch on the board somewhere to switch between them if i'm not mistaken.

joe20 · 10 Jul 2015 at 15:11

I don't think it's a short .. iv got a feeling its got something to with this A9 error im getting when trying to get into the bios. Umm iv been looking through the manual and I can't seem to find anything ahout a switch I think it automatically boots into the second bios if the first one fails. I will carry on looking

joe20 · 10 Jul 2015 at 15:33

Success! I changed gpus, monitors, removed ram and nothing. But I unplugged both my hdd and sdd and it booted first time. I think the sad is causing some issues, as others online have got the a9 error and their ssds have been at fault

implosiveturnip · 10 Jul 2015 at 16:50

Glad you figured it out! Has it resolved your initial issues too?

joe20 · 10 Jul 2015 at 17:21

Yep everything is sorted now thanks. Only prob is everytime I want to boot into the bios I have to unplug my ssd. Im just going to wait a while for another bios update that hopefully solves the issue

implosiveturnip · 10 Jul 2015 at 17:24

I'd say send your ssd back if it's under warranty - if this is happening then it's at fault.

joe20 · 10 Jul 2015 at 17:51

Yep, I think I will, depends on how long OCUK will take with everything. I dont want to go without it for too long

implosiveturnip · 11 Jul 2015 at 00:21

they're usually super quick, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Pop a post in CS subforum and wait till monday.

Purgatory · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:13

Also make sure that you have the latest firmware for your ssd before you rma it,could be just a old bad version you are running.