My computer will power up (LEDs and fans turn on), but nothing else seems to turn on. My mouse/keyboard do not light up, the drive light shows no activity, and worst of all I get no signal to my monitor. I assume for some reason power is not getting to these things. Anyways, the way I messed this up was as follows:
I was trying to change settings in my BIOS so that I could boot from USB. The first thing I did was go into advanced settings and removed the cryptic UEFI as the secondary boot option. The first option was my SSD. I then reset my computer and went back into the BIOS settings. The thing I changed was under "Boot Option Priorities" as shown below in the photo below (not mine).
http://blog.tonywall.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2-UEFI-BIOS-settings-1-e1431854300942.jpg
After I was back in the BIOS (EZ Mode menu this time). This time I used the GUI to move the second option in front of my SSD for boot priority. I have no idea what the icon represents, but the icon I moved in front of my drive looks like the one shown in the photo below (again, not mine):
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/fss/163dee66ed0aa0ffbcdabe474a2871bc
I don't recall if mine had the UEFI banner like the photo.
After this I tried moving the CMOS jumper. That did nothing to change the situation. I then took apart everything so I could remove the battery on the motherboard. I left it out for probably close to 10 minutes and put everything back together. Still no change. I cannot see anything on my monitor and my mouse/keyboard are not functional.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can access the BIOS or get things working again?
Also, I don't believe the motherboard has any onboard video capabilities.
EDIT: Also, worth mentioning that I had a thumb drive with Ubuntu plugged in during this. Never booted from it, but I don't know if that could factor in.
I am kind of a newbie at this and it occurred to me that perhaps I didn't properly reset the CMOS. Besides removing the battery do I need to do something else, like press the power button, to drain the charge more effectively?
I was trying to change settings in my BIOS so that I could boot from USB. The first thing I did was go into advanced settings and removed the cryptic UEFI as the secondary boot option. The first option was my SSD. I then reset my computer and went back into the BIOS settings. The thing I changed was under "Boot Option Priorities" as shown below in the photo below (not mine).
http://blog.tonywall.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2-UEFI-BIOS-settings-1-e1431854300942.jpg
After I was back in the BIOS (EZ Mode menu this time). This time I used the GUI to move the second option in front of my SSD for boot priority. I have no idea what the icon represents, but the icon I moved in front of my drive looks like the one shown in the photo below (again, not mine):
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/fss/163dee66ed0aa0ffbcdabe474a2871bc
I don't recall if mine had the UEFI banner like the photo.
After this I tried moving the CMOS jumper. That did nothing to change the situation. I then took apart everything so I could remove the battery on the motherboard. I left it out for probably close to 10 minutes and put everything back together. Still no change. I cannot see anything on my monitor and my mouse/keyboard are not functional.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can access the BIOS or get things working again?
Also, I don't believe the motherboard has any onboard video capabilities.
EDIT: Also, worth mentioning that I had a thumb drive with Ubuntu plugged in during this. Never booted from it, but I don't know if that could factor in.
I am kind of a newbie at this and it occurred to me that perhaps I didn't properly reset the CMOS. Besides removing the battery do I need to do something else, like press the power button, to drain the charge more effectively?
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