At My Wit's End- Motherboard Won't Boot

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ImTheCount

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I have the Asus x99 Deluxe II motherboard and have used it for about two months without issue. Then today I go to turn on the computer, and it doesn't boot at all. Reset again and it gave me an error 76 code. I called Asus and they suggested hitting the CMOS button as I had overclocked the system, when I did that it booted to the "press del or f2 to enter bios" and hitting that does nothing, then it goes to a screen that just has the image of "American Enterprise" and is stuck there. Normally that screen says something along the lines of "overclocking failed, press f1 to run setup" but this time it's blank and hitting f1 does nothing.

So now if I just turn the computer off/on it gives me an error "bd" and finally boots, but to that frozen screen. If I hit clear cmos again, I get a hard 76 code and nothing happens.

I'm completly lost at what to do besides RMA, and I really don't want to do that. If anyone could help or point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it!
 
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does that mobo have a dual bios? Many overclocking oriented boards have dual bios, if it does, switch bios to the other. If it boots, you can always flash the other one(if it's indeed faulty). If you've been overclocking, perhaps something else is wrong, outside of the mobo.
 
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if switching to another bios doesn't help, you could try removing the CMOS battery and then pressing the power button for 10 seconds (with the power unplugged of course), and then just waiting for 30 minutes as for this is a manual way to reset the cmos. this will drain all the power from the board, therefore resetting the cmos settings entirely.
 
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Thank you both, sadly it doesn't have a dual bios option but I did fix it! Using the USB Bios Flash tool reset the bios and allowed me to actually boot. Now I have to figure out the original problem I was troubleshooting for, audio has been randomly popping/crackling, no matter what port/device I use to listen to.
 
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so essentially what I said (Resetting the BIOS, to which some people refer to it as Reseting the CMOS) worked for you, but you just did it differently. Kind of thought that would work lol. Are you using a specific audio card or built in audio on your mobo? Also, what kind of speakers and headphones are you using as for I have noticed this kind of problem stems more from the quality of the sound hardware rather than the ports you plug them into.
 
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It just started happening recently, but I generally use the Audioengine D1 Dac, Audioengine A5+ speakers, and Audio Technica m50xs for my set up. I was thinking it was an issue with the DAC itself, but plugging into the front headphone jack does the exact thing. It's like a very subtle popping noise on audio, more noticeable on slower songs.
 
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