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Gigabyte ga-z77-d3h bios failure

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It ran without issue for a wile and one day it had some kind of bios failure during boot and said something about repairing and ran a status bar for 10 - 15 minutes then worked fine again, with one exception being I could no longer use the bios or device selection bios from startup.

when I hit delete to enter bios it begins to go into the bios and then just freezes with the "Gigabyte UEFI" header, the bios background and a mouse cursor, mouse wont move and it wont let me do anything but reboot. When I choose device selection mode it gives me the header again plus background and the device selection, it displays all devices but again a mouse cursor that wont move and keyboard doesn't do anything, I can't select a device.

This was using the default bios. I have since flashed it using the gigabyte @BIOS application and I have exactly the same issue. system specs were as follows. also no bios settings were ever changed, it was all deafult and i'd only gone into it maybe once to look at it.

i5 3570k @deafult
Corsair TX850M
ATI HD 4890
2x4GB 1600 kingston
OCZ agility 3 240GB SSD
4x plater hdds of varying size/brand

I have since added a PowerColor ATI Radeon HD7950 3GB. and an antec kuhler 620, cpu runs around 25C/77F after boot at no load

I've also moved this setup through 3 cases and tried various things during to resolve the issue.

A bios reset and flash hasn't changed a thing. I honestly just want to figure out if I can fix it or I need to send it back wile it's still under warranty.

One more thing being the gigabyte utility installed with the motherboard disc windows calls it GUI MFE or something (I think it's Easy Tune 6) crashes everytime at boot. and if I want to run it it crashes several times before I can get it to open.

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most new mb have two bios now.a main bios and a back up bios. the back up bios is locked and you cant flash it. if you unplugged the pc from the wall for 20 min then cleared then cmos. (some mb hold power when connected to ac power).
if you cant get into the bios then you may be running on the back up bios. (main bios may have failed.) i would rma the mb when you can.

I had a video card problem so this was on the back burner, Wile I had the PC in the shop I hooked it up and ran through some tests with the video card and since all my parts are from the same place I asked the owner about the bios issue, he suggested flash I said I had and he took over and did it again... the bios worked and I thought I did something wrong when I flashed it. So I bring it home hook it up and attempt to go into the bios, and I have exactly the same problem then I realised he had a PS2 keyboard plugged in so I bought a USB>PS2 plug because I have no PS2 keyboards or mouse laying around and it doesn't work either. I will get a PS2 keyboard next and try that out but if anyone has any other ideas i'd appreciate the help as I find it hard to believe you need to use a PS2 device to operate the bios when the last 4 PC's I've built all worked fine without a PS2 device.

I've been using the z77 back panel USB2.0 ports, even tried the USB3.0 ports.

hapticyo said:
I had a video card problem so this was on the back burner, Wile I had the PC in the shop I hooked it up and ran through some tests with the video card and since all my parts are from the same place I asked the owner about the bios issue, he suggested flash I said I had and he took over and did it again... the bios worked and I thought I did something wrong when I flashed it. So I bring it home hook it up and attempt to go into the bios, and I have exactly the same problem then I realised he had a PS2 keyboard plugged in so I bought a USB>PS2 plug because I have no PS2 keyboards or mouse laying around and it doesn't work either. I will get a PS2 keyboard next and try that out but if anyone has any other ideas i'd appreciate the help as I find it hard to believe you need to use a PS2 device to operate the bios when the last 4 PC's I've built all worked fine without a PS2 device.

I've been using the z77 back panel USB2.0 ports, even tried the USB3.0 ports.


I just build a new PC with this MB, all working fine, included my Keyboard & Mouse.
Entering the BIOS was a problem cause KB and Mouse did not react in Boot-menu (F12) and the Bios screen was as you described and 'hung'.
A Bios-flash to F18 from within Windows did not solve the problem for me.

BUT: i disconnected my USB-hub with several devices (and my BR-dvd player which i used for installing Win8). And...now it works! Problem is though i am not able to load Recovery2 from the Gigabyte boot-cd but i am able to go into BIOS etc. with DEL, F12 and using my mouse and keyboard.

Hope it helps...!
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