Can't see Mobo Splash / Startup Windows Screens, Boots Stright to Login

bzeeb

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Randomly my monitor started to not show the bootup screens (MOBO / Starting Windows etc) before I get to the windows login screen. Even Mashed F8 / F2 and neither screens show up and forced to reboot manually. Tried both my VGA and HDMI ports.

What prompted me to notice I wasn't seeing my MOBO startup screen was my nvidia control panel gave me this error. "You are not currently using a display attached to a NVIDIA GPU." I was attempting to reboot into safe mode in order to do a clean install of my drivers. As I have a duplicate of the comp my wife uses I tried to navigate to safe mode without use of monitor, even though it looks like its logging me in, still a black screen.

Update:
Attempted to reset by BIOS. Turned off the power, took out the video card, took out the CMOS battery, waited 10 secs, held the power btn for about 20 secs & put it all back together. Now it looks like its trying to get me to tweak settings in the bios and I can't see anything. Also now I can't get into my login screen T_T.

Specs:

  • ■Corsair Carbide Series Black 300R Windowed Computer Case (CC-9011017-WW​)
    ■EVGA GeForce GTX770 w/EVGA ACX Cooler 2GB GDDR5 256bit, Dual-Link DVI-I, DVI-D, ■HDMI,DP, SLI Ready (02G-P4-2773-K​R) Graphics Cards 02G-P4-2773-KR
    ■Intel 530 Series 240GB 2.5-Inch Internal Solid State Drive (Reseller Kit) SSDSC2BW240A4K​5
    ■Corsair RM Series 750 Watt ATX/EPS 80PLUS Gold-Certified Power Supply - CP-9020055-NA RM750
    ■ASRock LGA1155/Intel Z75/DDR3/Quad CrossFireX /CrossFireX/SA​TA3/USB3.0/A/GB​E/ATX Motherboard Z75 PRO3
    ■G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory F3-1866C10D-16​GAB
    ■Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155 - BX80637I53570K



 

SubFPS

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There's an option in UEFI to enable skipping the POST screen, you could have altered that. You may have corrupted the BIOS by doing all that now. Does the computer just keep restarting now after you power it on?
 

bzeeb

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No it doesn't restart it just stays on, like its stuck in the BIOS settings. I have a Logitech g15 v2 keyboard and when I was fiddling with it before I reset the BIOS the G15 logo would appear when it was going through the startup screens and then disappear for a sec before re-appearing before I could login. Right now the G15 logo just appears and stays lit.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1698789/asrock-z75-pro3-bricked-ugh.html sounds like they are in a similar predicament. Anyone think I could follow the steps outlined here flash the BIOS from a USB stick?
 

SubFPS

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If it can still boot to a USB drive then you may be able to repair the BIOS. Otherwise you have to either send it to ASRock for replacement or you have to buy a BIOS chip from somewhere and replace it with the current corrupted one.