Solved Crashed & now stuck in BIOS

parrish76

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I stepped away for a half hour. When I came back & moved my mouse aroud to wake up my monitor, the comp rebooted. Since then, I've been stuck in a loop between my motherboard's BIOS & a Jmicron BIOS.

I can enter BIOS (where everything appears to be fine & everything is set to optimized defaults) but I cannot boot an OS. I've tried my hard drive, a flashdrive & a DVD. The BIOS screens just keep looping & Win 8 never tries to start up from any source. I've shut everything down & let the comp sit. Came back & I get the same thing.

F8 doesn't give me an option to start in safe - it just lets me choose a boot device.

EDIT: Pulled my PCI-E card that was using Jmicron. Now I can boot from DVD.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    CPU
    Intel i7 2600
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3
    Memory
    8gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    RADEON HD 6850

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8.1Pro - Finally!!!
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Samsung/NP780
    CPU
    Came with the laptop (i7 of some sort)
    Motherboard
    Pretty sure that it has one, but haven't checked inside the case!
    Memory
    upgraded to 12 gB from 8 gB
    Graphics Card(s)
    has switchable - Intel/ATI - Used wrong drivers, now ATI card is inop :( Will have to fix it soon!
    Sound Card
    I'm nearly deaf, so this isn't used often
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Touchscreen on laptop/32" Toshiba on HDMI (laid the Sharp TV on a mouse and cracked the screen!)
    Screen Resolution
    800x600
    Hard Drives
    One Samsung 1tB drive - 5400 rpm. Gonna switch to a 7200/10000 rpm or an SSD (if I can find $500 for a 1tB SSD!)
    - Switched to 500 gB Samsung 840 series SSD - WOW!!!
    PSU
    Why do we ask this for laptops?
    Case
    Silver with a neat Samsung logo
    Cooling
    sub-par, gotta get around to working on it soon Worked on it - still sub-par! :(
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Natural - the same one I've used since it orignally came out around 1995
    Mouse
    no Mouse - Trackball!!!!
    Internet Speed
    too slow when I'm waiting for a download to finish
    Browser
    Yes, I use this (Firefox mostly, w/IE next most)
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender and Windows Firewall
    Other Info
    I'm handsome and a snappy dresser :0)
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