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My Bios won't show up!!!

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by intelman

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I have just built a computer and everything in the case is working fine, the fans are spinning and everything else is working like a dream but when I boot up my BIOS doesn't show!!

Is it a motherboard problem or a CPU problem or somthing like that? All the parts are brand new and I don't know what to do!!

BTW the processor is intel the mb is Asus the graphics card is Asus and the power supply is OCZ not sure if this is relevent to the problem but just for the heads up.

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by seanferd

Remove any unnecessary cards or drives and try to boot to BIOS.

Possibly the mobo is bad.

I'm sure you'll get more suggestions to try before you need to consider the latter.

by david.wallis

check if your graphics card needs power plugging into it, if it does then this would stop it from booting :)

also check your ram is seated correctly :)

by david.wallis

if you have a small square 4 pin lead coming off your power supply, make sure its plugged into the motherboard :P

by intelman

should i maybe try to do this outside of the case so it is easier to see the problem?

by david.wallis

you can try out of the case , this would also see if the board is shorting on the case somewhere :)

by dumphrey

Any beep codes? Or is it just black screen and fan noise? Does the mobo have built in video?

by tintoman

In your original post you said everything else is working like a dream - doesn't that mean you can boot to windows even though you are not seeing the post screen?
If that's so all you need to do is enter then cmos settings immediately on power up switch off the silent boot feature don't you?

by intelman

I meant everything as in hard drive/video card and everything else my screen is only showing to boxes in the top left corner that say-Digital Analog and then after a few seconds it goes into stand by mode

by seanferd

Could be a USB problem, but what you need to do is take everything apart, power up the board, and see what happens. Add components one at a time, powering on after each component is installed, until you find what is causing the error. When it happens, reboot and get into BIOS setup to correct the problem, if possible.

by seanferd

Always set up a build outside of the case first. Power on after installing each component individually, one at a time.

by intelman

Ok i think i found out whats wrong either my bios chip
crashed and i also forgot to ground myself and so the the
parts probably got messed up.

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