Asus Gryphon Z87 - keeps booting to BIOS

[SlakeDK]

Hi,

Need some hints or good ideas. I recently bought an Asus Gryphon Z87, Intel Core i5 4670 and Hyper 212 Evo cooler. It works great, but every time I boot the computer after normal shutdown it always go into BIOS. No beeps or error messages. I initially thought it had something to do with the fan monitoring, but disabling it doesn't make any difference.
Any suggestions what I could try are welcome.

Additionally the computer has 8GB 1600 MHz RAM, Samsung 840 pro (256GB), Asus GTX670 (DirectCU mini or something like that).

 

[sin0822]

you need to work out the direct key settings, check their asus boot software it has some settings for that.

 

[UaVaj]

booting directly into bios = no bootable drive present.

check/replace: sata cable or 840 pro.

 

[SlakeDK]

you need to work out the direct key settings, check their asus boot software it has some settings for that.

Thanks. Not completly sure what you mean with your reference to the Asus boot software. I can try and disable the direct key feature in BIOS.

New status though now. Before I changed anything according to any of your suggestions my computer started behaving differently. I have a Asus Xonar DX PCI soundcard installed as well and I have a suspicion that it might be the culprit. My computer boots now without going to BIOS first, but there is no sound. Device manager is not reporting any problems though. After a reboot the sound returns.
The card is seated correctly in the slot.

 

[SlakeDK]

booting directly into bios = no bootable drive present.

check/replace: sata cable or 840 pro.

How come it will boot then after I just exit BIOS? :sneaky:

 

[UaVaj]

How come it will boot then after I just exit BIOS? :sneaky:

then that means the storage device is slow/delay at initializing during hard reboot (try another boot device). bios initalized before the storage device did and did not find the storage device (no boot device). once enter and exit bios, the storage device finally caught up, hence normal booting second time (with soft reboot).

no boot device will boot directly to bios - uefi.

 

[john3850]

It sounds like the bios is not holding some data that was reset.
When you press f-10 to exit the bios your reloading someting that wont stay set.
I would clear the bios then reset it.

 

[SlakeDK]

Thanks for your suggestions. Good explanations.
It has stopped going into BIOS now after my last post and I didn't change anything.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Also update the BIOS to the latest. Likely a fix for this in the newer versions if it was common.

 

[SlakeDK]

Noted cmdrdredd. I can see a newer BIOS version was released 14 days ago, but doesn't seem to include fixes I could use. Right now I'm sticking to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"