First I have searched and found some threads with very similar questions, but I have very little experience working with motherboards and could use some clarification/explanation.
I have the asrock z77 extreme 4. At some point I set it to fast startup, which hides the splash screen and POST details while booting, but I can't imagine would interfere with opening BIOS options. In the process of reinstalling windows 7 I wanted to check to make sure my boot option were set to cd, but found that pressing f2 or del would cause my computer to get stuck on a blank screen with no output to my monitors. Frustrated, I decided to try to reset the CMOS, and just start over.
Present day: shut down, turned off ps, unplugged, and used the cclr CMOS button on the back of the motherboard. Waited 10 minutes. Restarted, and got an a2 error (IDE detect) on the display.
What happened and how do I move forward? Don't be afraid to assume I am totally ignorant.
I have the asrock z77 extreme 4. At some point I set it to fast startup, which hides the splash screen and POST details while booting, but I can't imagine would interfere with opening BIOS options. In the process of reinstalling windows 7 I wanted to check to make sure my boot option were set to cd, but found that pressing f2 or del would cause my computer to get stuck on a blank screen with no output to my monitors. Frustrated, I decided to try to reset the CMOS, and just start over.
Present day: shut down, turned off ps, unplugged, and used the cclr CMOS button on the back of the motherboard. Waited 10 minutes. Restarted, and got an a2 error (IDE detect) on the display.
What happened and how do I move forward? Don't be afraid to assume I am totally ignorant.
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