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Stuck Boot

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Snakekilla

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My computer starts up with power looking fine, video looking fine. This has been happening for a while and generally hard booting (turning off PSU) a few times will make it boot up straight to windows 7 64bit fine... been like that since I got it, I dealt with it. But today, won't pass that boot screen anymore did like 20 hard boots, nothing... I did some dust cleaning, unplugged and replugged wires to video and mobo, nothing... same thing... As well unplugged each RAM stick 1 by 1 (4 total).

My only guess is I gotta replace the CPU/mobo :(

Recommendations to troubleshooting this issue without replacing parts?

Current Mobo: 1 x ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Current CPU: 1 x Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2000 BX80623I32100
 
If it is overclocked return to completely stock bios, update bios while you are at it if there is a newer one than what you have.

Backup info and reinstall Windows.

I would start with those, as I have had to in the past for my dodgy ASUS board.
 
HeavensCloud said:
If it is overclocked return to completely stock bios, update bios while you are at it if there is a newer one than what you have.

Backup info and reinstall Windows.

I would start with those, as I have had to in the past for my dodgy ASUS board.
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I tried doing a reset bios but for some reason my mobo does not have a battery to do this... It doesn't mention manufacture overclock on any of the product pages for them two, and I never overclock as well.. What else do you recommend?
 
You can't reset it through the bios? And the battery is under your video card, or under the first PCI-e slot. Have you tried reinstalling Windows?
 
I'm stuck at the mother board boot screen, I can't reinstall windows, heck it won't even follow my keyboard commands to get into bios :(
 
Oh I see. What does the debug LED on the bottom of the board show when you power on?
 
HeavensCloud said:
Oh I see. What does the debug LED on the bottom of the board show when you power on?
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same thing on my screen "B4"... i left it alone on that screen while researching support on this issue and it actually just changed to "92"... now its stuck on that... normally when its good to boot it will say something like "A" something or "A8"
 
Unplug everything from your USB ports and try again. Case and motherboard.
 
thank god, after waiting 20 minutes for it to move or do something while it was on "92" it went into bios recovery mode... I luckily was able to use my wireless keyboard instead of the P2 keyboard to hit the command to either reset to defaults or go back to boot menu... I hit reset to defaults and now it looks like its doing something, no idea though its just a blinking line... so wait and see and prey!
 
The B4 code you were getting is USB error. Update to the newest firmware while you can.
 
HeavensCloud said:
The B4 code you were getting is USB error. Update to the newest firmware while you can.
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couldn't find any for the intel Core i3 for bios update, only test suit and linux crap... use linux stuff? That what comes up under the "firmware" filter on intel.
 
well... I removed ALL USBs... and BAM! it booted right away to windows... I guess having 2 USB hubs was a bad idea :(
 
Yes that's the one. Don't do it if you aren't familiar with the process, I don't want to make you brick your motherboard :p
 
99% yes. I would unplug everything but the k/b and mouse for the process since you are having issues.
 
yup, did it... no issues... thanks a lot... now I am going to test it with the usb hubs!
 
okay, still having the same error... so I'm right now testing all of my case ports to which one is a dud, or just may connect them while on windows only and don't boot with usb :\
 
It could be the peripheral itself and not the hub. Guess you will find out though.
 
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