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[motherboard] Having trouble booting up pc cant get into bios

My issue today is that first time I booted up my pc I just saw a msi motherboard screen and I pressed f1 to go into settings and so I did but when I tried to begin the process of loading the is from a USB the computer froze and I turned the computer back off and on and second time it said

boot and select proper boot device insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key

The I turned of computer and put the USB in and tried again and the screen stay at proccesing operating system and it doesn't change from there
Also I never saw the motherboard screen saying to press f11 or delete key again I am using

Amd athlon x4 750 k
Xfx radeon 7770 ghz edition
Corsair cx 430 watt psu vengeance 4 gb memory ddr3 clocked at 1600 MHz
And western digital caviar blue 500 gb hard drive 7200 rpm

Re: [motherboard] Having trouble booting up pc cant get into bio

I have a motherboard that won't boot with a USB device attached - have you tried without the usb stick, and when you meet the boot screen for selection, plug in the USB stick and then make a selection?

What is on the USB stick, an operating system, a bios update?
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The USB has an operating system and ill try that tomorrow but I can't get into the bios because the motherboard freezes when I go into motherboard settings thankyou

Did this computer work fine then just stop, or is it brand new?
If brand new:
Have you tried with the video plugged into the onboard and no graphics card?
Sometimes motherboards need the onboard to function and then select in bios to disable onboard and then turn off. Fit the GPU card and then boot up.

If it was working fine:
Have you tried swapping the RAM module out, or swap memory slots?
Have you tried pulling out the battery and resetting the cmos jumper at all?
Reseated all cables and cards?
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again thankyou for the response and i have tried switching ram slots also my cpu requires an onboard graphics card. but you got me thinking, what if i can do what you said and try it without the graphics card ill try it later today. and the computer and all the parts are brand new
thankyou again and i will keep you up to date on what happened

Hi I tried what you said and there was no image on screen when I tried booting up the computer notice that I was using an hdmi to connect the mother bird to my tv and I put the tv scourge to hdmi

Later I decided to try it again with the vide card but still no luck the screen did the exact same thing again

After a little more research, I would look to the power.
»www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/···770.aspx

Or memory.

Can you list exact motherboard and memory.
Is this the memory?
»www.corsair.com/vengeance-4gb-si···0c9.html

What is the specific motherboard...it will help a lot.

On taking out the graphics card did you reset the cmos jumper, pull out and re-seat the battery and then boot?
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke

Yeah I have to 1 gygabite edition and yes that is my ram

Also the motherboard
MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 Socket FM2/ AMD A75/ DDR3/ SATA3&USB3.0/ A&GbE/ MicroATX Motherboard

Ah, that CPU will not allow onboard graphics, sorry there for suggesting it.
»au.msi.com/product/mb/FM2-A75MA-···USupport
Also if that is the RAM, it isn't on the QVL:
»au.msi.com/product/mb/FM2-A75MA-···MSupport

Still, the power supply might be the culprit, due to the basics required for 7770 gpu as posted already. Can you source a slightly bigger PSU?

Another note, if you built this yourself, did you check the stand-offs holding the motherboard to the case are not touching any of the motherboard interconnecting circuitry and are located in the correct spots?

Can't see the images you posted.

As I understand it you just built this system. The first time you booted it you could get into the bios.
Now, even when you have no usb attached and are NOT trying to boot your usb stick you Still can't get into the bios any more?

You made some changes in the bios when you got in the first time? Did you note what those changes were?

I don't remeber the changes I think that they were me trying to put the USB in first place so that I could load the bios but since I pressed save changes it hasn't allowed me to go into the bios ever again

Re: [motherboard] Having trouble booting up pc cant get into bio

Look on the Mobo for the 'JBAT1' (Clear CMOS) jumper (User Manual Ch. 1, Pg 27)...

To Clear the CMOS back to Factory Defaults:

1) Shut down the PC.
2) Disconnect the AC Power from the PSU.
3) Press the Power button once to discharge the capacitors.
4) Place a Jumper across the JBAT1 pins for approx. 15-20 Seconds.
5) REMOVE the jumper (IMPORTANT: Do NOT apply power to the PC with JBAT1 Jumper attached!)
6) Reconnect the AC Power and power-up the PC.

The PC should come up with a "CMOS Checksum Failure" (or something similar), and give you the option to enter the CMOS Setup menu again.

HTH,

-Tursiops_G.
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If You're Unsure, "RTFM"... If You're SURE, "RTFM" Anyway.

I'll try that dude thanks for the response

I've done that already and read the page thoroughly I've also tried taking out the battery which does the same thing but when I turn the computer back in it doesn't change anything the bios still freezes when I try to make a selection thankyou though I really appreciate the support

I had a computer that would not start up and couldn't get the bios to reset so I could get into it. I ended up leaving the batter out and shorted the pins for the bios over night. Came back to it the next day and reset the bios pins back to normal and but battery back in. Fired it up and was able to access bios and the computer started up. Who knows, maybe it would work.

Not suggesting you do this at this point but for information: Did you try to update the bios and possibly not allow the update process to finish?

No I didn't update any bios