Computer Freezes at Asus Motherboard

Elliottinoss · Apr 16, 2014

I woke up this morning and turned on my computer as normal. I went downstairs for a while and came back up to find it had been stuck on the Asus Motherboard Screen. I tried pressing 4 to activate my Asus Core Unlocker that has never worked in the past, it always said "Overclocking Failed" or something. I tried pressing Del, Tab, F8 and Alt+F2. None of these worked. I tried disconnecting my USB devices such as my keyboard and I also disconnected my Ethernet Cable to try and see if that worked. Nothing. I then manually switched it off by holding the power button on the front of my desktop. Still... Nothing.

My Motherboard is a M4A88T-V EVO/USB3

trekzone · Apr 16, 2014

Hi,

You might have temperature issues with your current BIOS settings. Try to restore your BIOS setup to the default settings and see if it solves the problem..

Elliottinoss · Apr 17, 2014

trekzone :

I believe I have found what caused it... I installed a windows update last night and after giving up I forgot to turn my computer off... It switched itself off and back on and then it was configuring updates? I don't know why it froze but..

Elliottinoss · Apr 17, 2014

It takes about 30-45 minutes for the computer to start now... I don't know why..

Tradesman1 · Apr 17, 2014

Sounds like you may have gotten an update the rig doesn't like, (MS has dropped a few of those lately) the system will automatically try installing it 3 times and go through reboots, it doesn't install so it uninstalls and then tries again, takes forever, narrow things down to the update the rig doesn't like and hide it so you don't try and install it

Elliottinoss · Apr 17, 2014

Tradesman1 :

So what should I be doing... I should just leave it on to do it's business, correct?

Tradesman1 · Apr 17, 2014

If it's one of these after three tries should go ahead and boot, set Win update so you choose when to install and when you have time, do the updates singly find which is causing this and then hide this one and forget about it

Elliottinoss · Apr 17, 2014

Tradesman1 :

This is the screen it gets stuck at: (Sorry for the poor image)

Tradesman1 · Apr 17, 2014

Try resetting the CMOS

Elliottinoss · Apr 17, 2014

Tradesman1 :

How do I go about that? And what are the consequences?

EDIT: The Computer just loaded and it needs to install updates again.. HA! As if.. Is there anything I need to do before I get locked out for another 4 hours?

trekzone · Apr 17, 2014

Have you already tried to SET your BIOS back to default settings?

Elliottinoss · Apr 17, 2014

trekzone :

I dare not go back to that screen..

trekzone · Apr 17, 2014

Elliottinoss :

Why not just try to see if that resolves your problem... since your PC is freezing at POST.

Elliottinoss · Apr 18, 2014

Why not just try to see if that resolves your problem... since your PC is freezing at POST.

How do I go about this

trekzone · Apr 18, 2014

Elliottinoss :

To enter BIOS at start up.
Press <Delete> during Power-On Self Test (POST).
Once you're in the BIOS menu screen.
Go Under the Exit Menu and select Load Setup Defaults. select Yes on the screen prompt.
And then press <F10> to Exit and Save settings.

Find out if it helps...

Elliottinoss · Apr 18, 2014

To enter BIOS at start up.
Press <Delete> during Power-On Self Test (POST).
Once you're in the BIOS menu screen.
Go Under the Exit Menu and select Load Setup Defaults. select Yes on the screen prompt.
And then press <F10> to Exit and Save settings.

That's my problem I tried as soon as my computer turned on to press DEL, I even spammed it a couple times, but it still brings me to this...

Elliottinoss · Apr 18, 2014

Now it's moved on to this: Sorry for the bad picture

trekzone · Apr 18, 2014

You can Press <F2> while on that screen to Load the setup defaults. or Press <F1> to enter BIOS Menu settings..

Elliottinoss · Apr 18, 2014

trekzone :

Umm.. Same problem... Nothing happens and its as if the screen is frozen..

trekzone · Apr 18, 2014

Do you happen to have some devices plugged into your USB ports other than a mouse or keyboard?

Elliottinoss · Apr 19, 2014

trekzone :

The things I have plugged in are my mouse, keyboard and ethernet cable along with my monitor cable and the power cable

I took my casing off yesterday to try and clear the CMOS but I couldn't find the button and there was no jumper..

trekzone · Apr 19, 2014

Please refer to your mobo's manual on where to find the clear CMOS jumper. Otherwise you will just have to pull the CMOS battery off and put it back after a couple of minutes.

Elliottinoss · Apr 19, 2014

trekzone :

I think my computer is having trouble with an update since this has only happened when I updated, will taking out my battery do any damage and will it cancel this update thing?

trekzone · Apr 19, 2014

No, resetting the CMOS doesn't do anything with Windows updates. Try doing a system restore in Windows.

Elliottinoss · Apr 19, 2014

trekzone :

I am really thankful for the time you're putting in for this :3
Anyway, is system resetting going to wipe everything, if so is there a way I can get some files off? Like some of the big games I have installed?

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