Asus M5A97 R 2.0 freezing at Bios Someone please help!!!!

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amoudi91

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Hey guys so im in desperate need of help and on the verge of giving up and just never building a PC again. This is my first build, im building a gaming PC and these are my components.

MotherBoard: Asus M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 8350 4.0Ghz 8 core
GPU: Asus GTX 660
PSU: Corsair GS700 700W
RAM: (2x8)16GB G.Skill Sniper Series 1866
HDD: 2TB Seagate HDD

Every time i try to connect to a monitor it says no signal, when i connect to my TV it starts up and shows me the ASUS logo on the screen. It tells me to hit F2 or Del to enter BIOS (which I do) and then when i enter BIOS it becomes frozen. I cant click or type anything and it just sits there. It recognizes that there is a keyboard, mouse, RAM, and CPU although it says that my ram is running at 1333hz. My question is what the Hell do I do !! Ive been reading on forums everywhere that is could be PSU, CPU, or Mother Board and these are the steps I've taken so far.

STEPS IVE TAKEN SO FAR
-Replace the MB, and CPU 3 times
-Replace the PSU
-Insert RAM 1 stick at a time
-Tried VGA, DVI, and HDMI (so far only HDMI works)

So BIOS is Frozen and I cant do anything about it, someone please help me, or tell me what im doing wrong. Thank you very much ! I appreciate it!!

 
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Ultisym

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I would download the bios and update software to a disc and update the cmos directly that way. Also what alex said. the 3.0 ports wont work until the software is installed in the windows setting. If its not to late to return that board, do it, i built a couple systems using that board, both were unstable.
 
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andrewpetre

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Do you happen to have anything in either of your PCI slots? I have an open question about this, but mine was behaving in a similar way when I had an additional network card in either or both of the PCI slots. As soon as I pulled them out, it's happy and booting perfectly normal again. Not solved, in my case, but I can use the built-in until I know more about what to do.
 
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Ultisym

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I went back and forth on these boards on at least 5 different builds. When it got to the point that a trusted vendor and I narrowed it down to one of the drivers related to hardware on the board. We tried 3 to 4 complete builds where all components were different except power supply, different board but same model, all same bios versions. then we tried different power supplies. We threw in the towel on the M5A97. Went to a dif board, in this case a nice simple M5A78L-M LX3 and never looked back. Granted this wasnt a gaming rig and you would want a better board than the LX3 we used. But Honestly, if you can return it, do it, you wont regret it. That board has issues. it specs nice, but its just one of those boards. I know you dont want to hear it, but there it is.
 
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