Bios problems

dene · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: Bios problems

hey guys,
Nice to see you all again. Today i come to you with a rather annoying Problem. I can't acsess my bios! When i press delete at start up for the bios, All i get is a black screen with a Blinking white line like --> _ <-- an underscore pretty much. I have no idea whats wrong with it, Ever since iv'e brought this motherboard iv'e had problems. It's a ABIT NI8 SLI. I don't have my bios passworded ican't even get up to that. Any other things i need to add just ask me guys. Relly would love to solve this problem since some of the bios features are f'n Awsome!
Thanks guys
-Dene
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Mordacain · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject:

Are you using a USB keyboard?

Sometimes, you have to enable USB keyboard in the bios before it will allow you use the USB...which obviously necessitates the use of a PS2 keyboard to enter the Bios in the first place.
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meobius · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject:

could be a motherboard problem (fried bios, bad board, etc) or it could be an unstable overclock.
What where you doing before you needed to access the bios?
Try removing the battery and starting the system up (or reset the bios on the board)
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

how about reset the cmos... just swap the jumper pins, power it up, turn it off, replace the jumper and boot it...
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dene · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

Ok, Taking the battery out worked, Thanks for teh help guys. Now on a different note Does anyone know how to Enable Nviedia Firewall?
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Mordacain · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject:

Don't...the nV Armor is horribly buggy. It's gotten better since the NF3 days, but it still has a long way to go. Go with a good software firewall, your system will be both more stable and secure.

My personal preference is Kerio Personal Firewall. Lite mem footprint and very tight access control while still being easy to configure. Zone Alarm is another good choice.
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or Freeav. I swear by it.
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dene · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:32 am Post subject:

ok thanks for all the helo

I installed and updated Zone Alarm, All working sweet now.
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Mordacain · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:56 am Post subject:

Groovy, only thing you need to be aware of with Zone Alarm is if you have multiple computers on the same network and you want to share files, you'll need to add a listing of each MAC address (of each network adapter) to allow sharing in between computers.
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