Swoon, I don’t know whether

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August 2, 2011 at 9:53 am #5082
SJMaye

    Swoon,

    I don’t know whether to be embarrassed or frustrated.  Pulled out the DVI to HDMI adapter.  The same one I thought that did not give a picture before.  While windows desktop was up I pulled the HDMI from the HDMI video card port over to the DVI to HDMI adapter.  Picture came right back up. I plugged a USB keyboard in to a USB port on the back panel. I rebooted and was able to enter the bios!  Next I thought I would try something else. I shutdown and switched the HDMI cable back to the HDMI port and booted.  I was able to enter the bios there too!

    There is only one thing that has come to me that could be a possible answer.  You will notice I underlined plugging in the keyboard to the back panel.  In most attempts before I was using the USB ports on the front panel.  It is possible that all the problems entering the bios are related to those ports.  I know for sure I was using those ports the other morning when it would go blank for a moment andstart over again while trying to enter the bios.  Strange. I thought it would either work or not work.

    So it appears my video card works OK and I can change my bios now, but all this has brought to light some things that I may have not gotten right in last year’s main board, cpu and ram upgrade.  I am pretty sure I have some USB headers I need to check.

    Thank you for your help.  As usual, Missing Remote is more help than I got from anywhere else.