American Megatrends Startup

SharpTheDemon

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For some reason when i turn on my PC American Megatrends opens up then it automatically goes to "Intel Boot Agent", then after 3 seconds Intel Boot Agent fails and then my PC starts up normally...

I've also noticed that my Product Key is different then the one on my sticker on the side of my PC...

So my question is... How do i stop the American Megatrends and the Intel Boot Agent to open when i turn my PC on, because it's really annoying...

Oh yeah, I also noticed a new button--
When i right click "Computer" and go to properties
(Control Panel\System and Security\System)

The "windows activation" takes like, 2 seconds to show up a weird product ID i have never seen before and there's a new button called "Change Product Key" to the right.. i have tried clicking that and changing it to the one on my sticker, but after it says it's finished, my product ID is still the same different one from my sticker.


What do i do?!

Thanks!!!

PS: In American Megatrends it says 'Machine type and serial number invalid' if that means anything
 
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In my BIOS setup (Gigabyte z77X), there is a setting for "Full Screen LOGO Show Enabled/Disabled"

Enabled, and it shows the fancy Gigabyte logo. Disabled, and the American Megatrends logo shows.

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Ahhh...so this is a new condition.

Before this showed up, did you do any mucking around in the BIOS? My mb gives the option of showing a fancy Gigabyte loge, or I can turn that off and just see the default American Megatrends logo.
 

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No, i haven't changed anything in my BIOS before these stuff started happening, i only started changing settings AFTER it started happening. (like setting them to "optimal defaults") I do not have that option of showing the logo or the American Megatrends on my BIOS.
 

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In my BIOS setup (Gigabyte z77X), there is a setting for "Full Screen LOGO Show Enabled/Disabled"

Enabled, and it shows the fancy Gigabyte logo. Disabled, and the American Megatrends logo shows.
 
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