- Mar 9, 2012
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I have spent the last two days reading up on all the issues resembling what I have been encountering on my gaming desktop, which is an iBuyPower BB904 I won at a Best Buy raffle about 10 months ago. Specs are here: https://www.truecurate.com/computers-tablets/desktops/ibuypower-desktop-intel-core-i7-white-bb904-848604019628
I've upgraded most of it, 32GBB of DDR4 RAM, two SSDs, an nVidia 1070 GTX, a Corsair CX750M PSU, a LEPA CPU liquid cooler, and kept the stock motherboard, an Asus H170 Pro, as I have no intention of overclocking.
Anyway, during a boot up I accidentally hit a key that took me into the BIOS, I exited without saving changes and guess what happened next. The infinite loop of "Please enter setup to recover BIOS settings." It wants me to erase all data on my SSDs for the RAID configuration, I cannot boot up in any fashion, so I started doing what seemed to resolve other people's problems here:
- CMOS resets, jumper pins/screwdriver
- Updated the BIOS
- Removing USB devices even though they worked (All that changed was I got a "keyboard not detected!" On the American Megatrends splash, then it took me to the BIOS again.
- Tried swapping out various hardware, starting with the keyboard/mouse/wifi adapter and ending with each stick of memory, a different GPU (970 GTX).
I had planned on selling this machine and now it looks like I'm going to have to take some stupid amounts of time and effort, and likely money, to resolve this seemingly common as hell, but uncommon in discovering a working, consistent fix/cause.
I guess what I'm really asking, is if someone is familiar with this error happening on an H170 motherboard, and whether they found success in a particular fashion. My 'mentor' ex-coworker is going to come pick up the machine today and take it to his 'lab' to try and restore it. He said he's seen it before and not to worry about losing my data. He's never been wrong about these sorts of things, he reminds me a lot of many of you here, but I would love to somehow fix this before I again have to take advantage of his kindness. I would just erase the data and sell it if I knew it would be able to work again, but that is ultimately keeping me from making progress, as the Windows (7) disk and key are both at his house from the last time we worked on it together (doing case mods with some lighting).
Anyway, just another shriek for help on this cursed bullshlt that should have never gotten this far without it being systematically addressed by American Megatrends like they were dealing with a virus or something. Hundreds of hundreds of people have reported this exact issue with totally different specs. Do they just not care? Or are these machines so fragile that doing something as simple as going into the BIOS then back out is enough to disable it from properly posting?
I've upgraded most of it, 32GBB of DDR4 RAM, two SSDs, an nVidia 1070 GTX, a Corsair CX750M PSU, a LEPA CPU liquid cooler, and kept the stock motherboard, an Asus H170 Pro, as I have no intention of overclocking.
Anyway, during a boot up I accidentally hit a key that took me into the BIOS, I exited without saving changes and guess what happened next. The infinite loop of "Please enter setup to recover BIOS settings." It wants me to erase all data on my SSDs for the RAID configuration, I cannot boot up in any fashion, so I started doing what seemed to resolve other people's problems here:
- CMOS resets, jumper pins/screwdriver
- Updated the BIOS
- Removing USB devices even though they worked (All that changed was I got a "keyboard not detected!" On the American Megatrends splash, then it took me to the BIOS again.
- Tried swapping out various hardware, starting with the keyboard/mouse/wifi adapter and ending with each stick of memory, a different GPU (970 GTX).
I had planned on selling this machine and now it looks like I'm going to have to take some stupid amounts of time and effort, and likely money, to resolve this seemingly common as hell, but uncommon in discovering a working, consistent fix/cause.
I guess what I'm really asking, is if someone is familiar with this error happening on an H170 motherboard, and whether they found success in a particular fashion. My 'mentor' ex-coworker is going to come pick up the machine today and take it to his 'lab' to try and restore it. He said he's seen it before and not to worry about losing my data. He's never been wrong about these sorts of things, he reminds me a lot of many of you here, but I would love to somehow fix this before I again have to take advantage of his kindness. I would just erase the data and sell it if I knew it would be able to work again, but that is ultimately keeping me from making progress, as the Windows (7) disk and key are both at his house from the last time we worked on it together (doing case mods with some lighting).
Anyway, just another shriek for help on this cursed bullshlt that should have never gotten this far without it being systematically addressed by American Megatrends like they were dealing with a virus or something. Hundreds of hundreds of people have reported this exact issue with totally different specs. Do they just not care? Or are these machines so fragile that doing something as simple as going into the BIOS then back out is enough to disable it from properly posting?
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