Cant enter set up

heatrag · #1 1st January 2009, 08:53 PM

We have just installed a Geforce 705OM motherboard with AMD 64 X2 4200.
when we switched it on the Del button dosn't give us the BIOS menu, we sometimes get it with a combination of restarts and holding buttons down, return, F11 but the hole thing seems totally unreliable.
It's not the keyboard as when I do get into the set up menus the keys navigate perfectly.
Any ideas please.

Thanks.

heatrag · #2 1st January 2009, 09:14 PM

update
If I restart tapping the Delete key I get the CMOS setup. Ive loaded the default settings, changed the 1st boot device to the slave IDE DVD player (HD being the master) saved and exit then back the menu that doesn't work. I then restart tapping the F11 key and get teh select boot device window.
I select the dvd drive with the fd 10 disc, get the auto boot which stops at 'crc error'.
Should I throw it all away?

scottro · #3 1st January 2009, 10:57 PM

I'm a bit confused here. Is the trouble that you can't get to the DVD drive, that is, can't get it to boot first? Have you tested the DVD on other machines? If not, do you have a known working DVD that you can test?

heatrag · #4 2nd January 2009, 09:57 AM

Sorry about that the confusion.
It's not the CD or the reader, ive tried two of each and a ubuntu iso as well.
The first problem I have is that I can rarely get past the welcome screen which gives the option:

Press DEL to run
Press F11 for BBS POPUP

Its not the keyboard either as it works elsewhere.

I have also tried making the cdrw the master and disconected the hd.

Jake · #5 2nd January 2009, 10:09 AM

by barely get passed the welcome screen do you mean the system locks up? if so, I've seen this issue before, it could be due to a HDD trying to run FASTER than the motherboard can handle or CD drive, or some other device, causing the MB to get confused, I think you may find if you press del, and wait, it may eventually get into the bios, but be slow, if so it could be what I said.

And also note that on the system I see the issue on, the thing that fixed the issue was to put a slower HDD and smaller HDD on the system, though even with no HDD the system would be locked up and all slow, though as soon as I added the slower smaller HDD it worked fine. Though it was a laptop.