Hi All, I am getting some strange behaviour from my Sabertooth X79 and I can't find a solution...
I have been running this rig for a year no problems, and had the BIOS set up just as I wanted. However, I just erased the drives (including the OS disk) and gave the rig to my brother as a present. He has installed Windows 7. Now we find that we can boot into Windows 7 as normal, but pressing the -del- key at start up no longer takes us to the BIOS menu. Instead, it just leads to a black screen (of death) and we have to power off and on again. I tried to update the BIOS using the USB BIOS flash button, and it appeared to work, but it hasn't solved the problem and now it doesn't even seem to POST the drives. I tried it a second time using the .ROM from the Mobo disk but now the button light goes steady instead of flashing, indicating a problem with BIOS flash utility.
As I say, we can't enter the BIOS at all, but we can leave it to boot into windows.
I have tried the BIOS reset jumper including with no battery, and I have also tried leaving the Mobo disc in the rig and booting but this does not help either.
Does anybody have any experience of this issue and how to resolve it, or do we need to buy a new Mobo?
I have been running this rig for a year no problems, and had the BIOS set up just as I wanted. However, I just erased the drives (including the OS disk) and gave the rig to my brother as a present. He has installed Windows 7. Now we find that we can boot into Windows 7 as normal, but pressing the -del- key at start up no longer takes us to the BIOS menu. Instead, it just leads to a black screen (of death) and we have to power off and on again. I tried to update the BIOS using the USB BIOS flash button, and it appeared to work, but it hasn't solved the problem and now it doesn't even seem to POST the drives. I tried it a second time using the .ROM from the Mobo disk but now the button light goes steady instead of flashing, indicating a problem with BIOS flash utility.
As I say, we can't enter the BIOS at all, but we can leave it to boot into windows.
I have tried the BIOS reset jumper including with no battery, and I have also tried leaving the Mobo disc in the rig and booting but this does not help either.
Does anybody have any experience of this issue and how to resolve it, or do we need to buy a new Mobo?