Random hangs at BIOS

codyth53

Honorable
Oct 8, 2013
3
0
10,510
My computer has sadly started hanging at the BIOS screen quite frequently. This usually occurs when I reboot the computer or shut down the computer and reboot pretty quickly afterwards. It does not usually happen if I shut down my computer for the night and start it back up the next day. When it does get stuck, it stops at the BIOS logo screen where it has the general "DEL for setup", etc. If it has decided to get stuck, I cannot even get into any of those options. It just sits there. If I absolutely need to reboot, I've found that unplugging the system for about 30 minutes usually allows me to reboot it.

That being said, once it does decide to boot into Windows, I have absolutely no problems with it. Windows shows no errors, and I never have any random reboots. Where would this problem originate from?

Specs:
Core i7-860
Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3
12GB of DDR3 1333MHz RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB
Samsung SSD & 2 WD HDD
Windows 8
 

codyth53

Honorable
Oct 8, 2013
3
0
10,510


I'm using a Kingwin 610W PSU. My motherboard has 4 LEDs near the top of the motherboard. Whenever it decides to hang up, it always has all 4 lit up. If it does get past the BIOS logo, they all go off. The Quick Boot option was disabled, so I enabled it. Unfortunately, it has still hung up since then. I'm going to keep rebooting randomly and keep you posted. Any other suggestions?
 

codyth53

Honorable
Oct 8, 2013
3
0
10,510


It was on F8, but I went ahead and installed F10g. That itself did not fix the problem, but it did give me an option to watch the POST instead of the BIOS logo, something I'm not sure the old firmware did or not. Apparently it was hanging up when it got to the IDE Channel with one of my DVD drives. I unhooked it and it seems to be fine so far. I thought I had tried unhooking my DVD drives before, but I'm not sure. At least that is not an expensive part to replace. Thanks for the advice!