Z77X-UD5H Bios Troubles

[Roland0314]

I have been running a 3570k for the past month or so at 4.5GHz and 1.23v stable (25 runs of IBT High then ~10 hours of prime). Yesterday I went into the bios to check a setting and it would lock up and force me to reset my computer. Now I cannot enter the bios at all without it locking up within 5 seconds. I'm assuming it has something to do with the overclock, but my system runs fine outside of the bios (i ran prime again last night and it worked fine, along with IBT). I tried to google this but I could not find any similar issues. Does anyone here know what the problem could be?

 

[jamesriley94]

I had a similar kind of issue the other day while building a pc for my mate.

Can I ask what port you're running the display off? HDMI? DVI? VGA?

The BIOS on ours did seem very glitchy and difficult to control with the mouse. The HDMI resolution of it would not fit at all to the screen we were using - but not too sure if this was a problem with the screen or the board, although my PC did load it fine with the ASUS board.

Our board is currently in RMA because of it, but not too sure what they'll say, and my mate has since switched to the P8Z77 Deluxe (same as me) just cause I know my way around it a lot better

 

[Roland0314]

Well, I think you just helped me solve my problem. I use two monitors, one 24 inch (1920x1080) and one old IBM (have to use DVI to VGA for it). I decided tyo turn off my computer, unplug that, and boot back up. It didn't freeze at all. I even tried it twice more to make sure it wasn't just dumb luck. After plugging the IBM back in it froze up when I started up the bios.

Is this a common problem and I am just a super noob for not knowing it? I hope not >.<

Either way, thanks a lot!

 

[jamesriley94]

I had no idea whatsoever before a couple of days ago.

But as the BIOS is before windows, other forums say there arent necessary 'drivers' to run the BIOS through HDMI. But considering there shouldnt really be any 'driver' differences between DVI and HDMI as all go through the same graphics adapter I'm not too sure.

Do you have a large screen TV to test on through HDMI? Like, it is now becoming one of the most commonest interfaces for graphics, especially for HTPCs so I would have thought BIOSes should be able to display them correctly. It could be how the TV handles the resolution it receives though, so I have no idea.

I personally run my PC off a 32 inch TV through HDMI, and the BIOS displays perfectly through it, which does lead on to me to say it's more the TV than the BIOS / video outputs

 

[Roland0314]

My main monitor has hdmi on it, and I just tested it. It worked fine for me. I guess the problem was just that there were two monitors hooked up to my card and the bios threw a fit... (it didn't matter which one I unplugged, as long as I only had one hooked up it worked)