Recent content by RayRainer

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    Odd behavior in my BIOSTAR BIOS

    I finally got a new board from BIOSTAR. It took long enough. They never said what was wrong with the board. I was curious what happen to the BIOS but no one seemed to know. So all is well so far with this new board. After using the Corsair 200R case with my gigabyte board, I decided to get rid...
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    Odd behavior in my BIOSTAR BIOS

    The person bought the Haswell and the Gigabyte board together as part of a package at tiger. I suppose that would be frustrating. But Haswells, and that specific Haswell model, according to their website, were supposed to work with that board. So it is hard to say that you can't blame them...
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    Odd behavior in my BIOSTAR BIOS

    I tried everything suggested so far. I don't think I am going to buy another BIOSTAR motherboard because of the poor tech support from this issue and past issues. I have 2 Biostar motherboards one I bought new. I don't know if there is any warranty on this one. I bought it used 2 years ago...
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    Odd behavior in my BIOSTAR BIOS

    I did a reflash of the BIOS to no avail. I still have the same problem after a successful reflash. I took the battery out. You mean wait 24 hours before I put the battery back and then do a CMOS clear before I put the battery in or after in 24 hours . Do you also mean put a new battery in? I do...
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    Odd behavior in my BIOSTAR BIOS

    I haven't reflashed the BIOS yet but I did reset the CMOS. I now get a reading on boot that I didn't get before my problems which tells various info like cpu, date, what sata drives are present, etc but at the bottom it says "CMOS fail". I did it again according to the manual. But it just has...
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    Odd behavior in my BIOSTAR BIOS

    No. I never tried that. How do you reflash this BIOS? What are the steps? I was going to wait for tech support to see what they recommend but it sounds like a good idea.
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    Odd behavior in my BIOSTAR BIOS

    Hello: I wanted to first say that there are no more BIOSTAR updates for the TZ77XE3 version 5.0 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 Intel Motherboard. Z77AF823.BST was the last one posted. I also removed all non essential hardware not needed. I also tried different keyboards. I also tried different memory. I...