z68-G45 B3 bios stuck at entering setup

[Bags]

Yeah, I get MSI's mobo logo for military parts



The thing on the box.


And yeah, I miss typed. It's Z68A-G45 B3.

[Ieyasu]

Originally Posted by Bags

Yeah, I get MSI's mobo logo for military parts



The thing on the box.


And yeah, I miss typed. It's Z68A-G45 B3.

the Z68A is the full sized atx and the Z68MA is the Micro. the picture is the micro is that the board you have? Sure both have almost identical bios, I was just curious to know as I was looking over on the egg at pics to see how there couldnt be a clear cmos jumper on the beast.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Ieyasu

the Z68A is the full sized atx and the Z68MA is the Micro. the picture is the micro is that the board you have? Sure both have almost identical bios, I was just curious to know as I was looking over on the egg at pics to see how there couldnt be a clear cmos jumper on the beast.

I have the fulsized, I was posting that picture for the box. Posting a video as we speak of my boot for clarification.

Manual information about shorting jbat:



Here's me booting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3Ud...ature=youtu.be

[Ieyasu]

ah I see what they did now. Probably put a small blue jumper in with IO Plate and other mobo accessories.

when you clear the cmos and reboot does it boot you into the bios automaticly? if not how are you entering the bios the times when you are able to get into it after clearing the cmos?

if you havent tried yet, I would recommend just casually tapping the del button once per second from time you hit power button on your machine till bios or login screen come up.

on a side note is this what your uefi bios looks like?

[Bags]

No, my bios looks a lot like
Wen I restart cmos it asks me upon booting to either enter setup or to continue, and I can get into bios that way.

If I reboot afterward, and hit delete, it just locks up at "Entering bios... 92"

[TacosWLove]

Had the exact same issue on my MSI,

Need to change to IDE mode from ACHI. Not sure if that was already mentioned here, but I didnt notice it

/whoops didnt realize it was the bios

[Bags]

Originally Posted by TacosWLove

Had the exact same issue on my MSI,

Need to change to IDE mode from ACHI. Not sure if that was already mentioned here, but I didnt notice it

Can you explain this in more detail?

[Ieyasu]

Originally Posted by Bags

Can you explain this in more detail?

ahci setting in bios will cause your computer to crash and restart while booting into windows if you dont have ahci driver installed. it should not effect your getting into bios before any of your windows files have even begun to load.

basicly if you have motherboard in non ahci and isntall windows, windows will not install the ahci driver. if you then switch to ahci in bios when your computer attempts to boot up it will try to run your hdd in ahci mode and will then crash and restart. Youre not having any problems with crashing on windows load, just trouble entering bios if Im not mistaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...ller_Interface

[Bags]

Okay, so don't bother with that then?

[Ieyasu]

I would leave it to the default setting that the bios uses when you clear the cmos for now, should be ide in all likelyhood.

if you choose to use ahci at a later date you can, you just have to go into windows and install the driver for it before switching bios over.

if you have it set to ahci and its booting into windows fine I would leave the ahci enabled as it can give small performance increase in certain situations.

[Bags]

here is what happens when I try to go into bios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89O5B...ature=youtu.be
I left it for 5 mins, came back, still there.

[Bags]

Hmm, I got in and set everything, ram times/oc took! 4.3ghz @ 1.35v and 9-9-9-24-2N for my ram.

running prime atm, after about 20 mins my temps maxed @

cpu -
C0 - 67C (avg between 65 - 68)
C1 - 72C (avg between 70 - 72)
C2 - 73C (avg between 71 - 73)
C3 - 71C (avg between 68 - 71)
Package - 76C (between 73 - 76)

motherboard -
TMPIN0 - 75C
TMPIN1 - 83C
TMPIN2 - 31C

Is this safe temps? It's the summer, and my parents are stingy on the AC, so it's about 5 - 10F hotter in my room than it is in Fall/Spring/Winter.

So should I stop it and aim for lower or let it run for hours? If I do the stress test for hours, can I do other things like steam chat while prime is running?

[Goku]

What are you using to monitor temps?

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Goku

What are you using to monitor temps?

CPUID Hardware monitor

edit: now it's running at x41 with 1.336v

[Ieyasu]

load temps on cpu look ok. not sure what the various motherboard readings are showing for so cant really comment on those atm.

I usually run a hour or two of the small ftt, then inplace, and then a couple hours of blend. I will use my computer to surf web or play music while running prime as its basicly just doing math and checking the results against known correct answers.

there are other programs that can do similar calculations I just stick with prime95 because its always worked for me and Id been using it for 10 years now with great reliability. Just dont fall down the rabbit hole like I did and start running SuperPi 1m runs to get lower and lower times. I spent upwards of 80k on hardware from 2003-2008 benching competitively and freezing cpus with everything from dryice to multistage cascades trying to get lower and lower times.