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Recently built a system with the Vision D board and a Ryzen 3700x, 64gb Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM, and a Corsair MP600 1tb NVME SSD. It's running fine with Windows 10.
I wanted to look at the BIOS settings, so restarted and pressed the Del key as soon as I saw the Vision D screen. Instead of getting the BIOS screen, the screen went black. I let it set there for a couple of minutes to see what would happen. Still a black screen. Pressed Ctl-Alt-Del. System still running, but still a black screen.
Forced a shutdown (held down the power key) and then started up again; it started normally and Windows launched normally.
I've tried this several times. Any ideas why I can't get into the BIOS?
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The best time to catch the BIOS screen is from a cold boot, which I see you are doing. I start pressing the DEL key before any screen is visible. There is another way: When you are in Windows just hold down the SHIFT key while clicking 'restart' that will get you into the troubleshooting menu where you can choose UEFI BIOS.
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Thanks for the reply.
I first tried holding down the Del key as soon as I applied power. I saw the Vision D screen *very* briefly before Windows launched.
I tried holding Shift while selecting Restart while in Windows. On the Choose an Option screen, I selected Troubleshoot. On the next screen, I selected Advanced Options.
On the next screen, the options were Startup Repair, Uninstall Updates, Startup Settings, System Restore, Command Prompt, and System Image Recovery. I selected Startup Repair, and the computer rebooted. As soon as that happened, I held down the Del key, but it didn't make any difference; the computer kept right on going until it got to the Startup Repair screen and asked me to log in.
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Yes, select a different option. When in windows, holding down the shift key as you select startup, you should select what kshipper stated: In Troubleshoot, select "UEFI Firmware Settings.” This will allow you to enter BIOS on your Windows 10 PC from Windows.
Using the keyboard to get to BIOS:
- Sometimes the keyboard polling switch needs to change - if you have one - for the BIOS to recognize the delete key.
- BTW, you have to click the delete key off and on as fast as you can until the Vision D screen goes away. The keyboard isn't activated right away when the logo appears. If you have RGB on your keyboard you will notice it doesn't light up right away, because it isn't connected electronically to the system yet if it is a USB keyboard.
- Keyboard should be connected to USB 2.0 also to make sure it will work - with some keyboards or systems it makes a difference and with others no difference at all. Just keep smacking the the delete key until the BIOS comes up. If you hold it down permanently, it may not come up.
- In Windows power settings turning off fast startup helps. This is because the setting doesn't permit a full shutdown, but saves some settings to reduce the time you have to reach BIOS. In some cases you can't reach BIOS.
- Additionally, if ultra-fast boot is selected in BIOS, it often makes it impossible to get to BIOS via the keyboard. That should not be confused with BIOS Fast Boot, which generally doesn't affect your startup the same way.
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OMG..I missed a ton of stuff that could be wrong..thanks C-Hop!
I had another thought...maybe you built the machine and turned (or had to turn) UEFI off? Sometimes people do that because they use ancient graphics cards.
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When I hold down the shift key and select Restart on the Start menu, the next screen that comes up is titled "Choose an Option." There is no UEFI BIOS option on that screen. It offers Continue (exit & continue to Windows 10), Troubleshoot (restart your PC or see advanced options) and Turn Off Your PC.
If I choose Troubleshoot, the next screen is titled Troubleshoot. It has 2 options: Reset this PC (Lets you choose to keep or remove your personal files, and then reinstalls Windows), and Advanced Options.
If I choose Advanced Options, the next screen is titled Advanced Options. It has 6 options: Startup Repair, Startup Settings, Command Prompt, Uninstall Updates, System Restore, and System Image Recovery. There is no UEFI BIOS option.
My keyboard doesn't have a polling switch. It is connected to a USB 2 port.
I haven't been in the BIOS yet, so if ultra-fast boot is set, it came that way from the factory. Seems unlikely, tho.
Windows power settings... Fast Startup must be a default, because it was on, and I didn't do that. Turned it off.
I tried repeatedly hitting the Del key during the start-up phase. I ended up back where I started with this thread: a black screen. The Del key is apparently having *some* effect, because the computer doesn't launch Windows, but it definitely isn't giving me the BIOS, either.
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I did indeed build this machine, with an MSI GTX 1660 GPU. Just on the off chance it was having some undesired effect, I swapped it out for a GTX 630.
I didn't turn the UEFI off; however, I ran HWINFO64, and it tells me that UEFI is turned off. I don't know how that happened. Also don't know what to do about it.
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If the UEFI isn't available in Troubleshoot, then you probably installed windows on an MBR-intialized drive. That would make it legacy and UEFI wouldn't be available in Windows. You can convert from MBR to GPT without losing files (usually). See: www.windowscentral.com/how-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-move-bios-uefi-windows-10
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