Crosshair V Formula Boot Device LED

[Wyzrd]

I've had this motherboard for roughly 2-3 years no problems. Then today I was playing a game and the whole computer shut down. I had to turn the PSU off and then on to get it to boot back up. I tried restarting several times. Sometimes it would stick on the VGA Led. Sometimes it would cycle through the VGA, DRam, Cpu leds. So I read sometimes it means the VGA shifted so I moved it and tried to make sure it's in all the way. Now the co.puter will boot up to the red ROG Bios screen and just sit there. I can't enter the BIOS. And the Device Boot LED is on now.

[MeanMachine]

Hi Wyzrd and Welcome to ROG
The LEDs on you MB will stay lit until the corresponding lit LED is rectified.
Assuming no component failure at this time, I would try to clear CMOS and check the CMOS battery is not failing.
Maybe a Bios flash to latest? This can be done without booting to windows or access to Bios.
Boot_led would indicate a problem with Bios configuration for your HDD or SSD. Check all cable connections.
If still no Bios access, then testing for component failure will be required.

Please list your full system specs in your profile.

[Wyzrd]

Ok I tried a few of the things you said. I went ahead and replaced the CMOS battery. I placed in a brand new Video Card. I put in a new SSD and now I'm not even getting to the Bios screen at all. I have no signal and the boot_device LED is still on.

Edit: I popped the new cmos battery out and put it back in. It started up and let me get to the BIOS. I reset the BIOS to it's defaults and restarted now it booted up past Bios screen and brought me to the Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device.

Edit: It will recognized the new SSD in the BIOS but it won't recognize my optical drive where as it was earlier. The optical drive has power to it. It will open and close but the BIOS is no longer recognizing it.

Edit: I swapped out the Sata cable on the Optical drive and the BIOS reccognized it. But it still told me to reboot and select proper boot devie. I opened the drive made sure the Windows install disk was in and closed it and it just kept telling me to insert proper media. I then restarted the computer and the BIOS no longer recognized the optical drive but again it still had power. I did also noticed the BIOS launched faster when it didn't recognized the optical drive. Could my optical drive be failing?

Edit: I disconneccted that optical drive and plugged in a external DVD drive I have and got the BIOS to recognize that, it would launch the Windows 8.1 Install disk and bring up the 4 blue squares taht form the window's logo. It just hangs there for a while then restarts and get stuck in a cycle of doing that.

[MeanMachine]

Hi Wyzrd.., I think your making progress.

You should swap out your DVD drive to test. Have you tried a windows repair with your external drive?
Did you update your Bios?
If still failing then I suggest a clean install of Windows.

[Wyzrd]

I was trying to do a clean install on a new SSD last night when it was still failing. I'm going to try and see if I can't install Windows through a USB drive. If that works then I assume both the internal and external DVD drives are messed up maybe. It's a brand new Windows disk so I doubt it is that.

As far as the BIOS. It's up to date already with the latest from ASUS's page.

Edit: So I downloaded Windows 8.1 from Microsoft's page and installed it to a USB Drive. Now the BIOS recognizes the USB Drive no problem. But I'm back to where it will bring up the Windows 8.1 Logo like it's going to install but doesn't have the spinning dot circle below it. Then it will go to a black screen and restart the PC and go in a endless loop of doing this same thing.

[jmoorez2001]

hi reset ur bios pull the battery out and leave it out for 24 hours then push the reset bios button on the back panel make sure all power is all unpluged and then rehook all up and try again i had to do it once on the same board to get it to work right after a new update with the bios

[jmoorez2001]

hi reset ur bios pull the battery out and leave it out for 24 hours then push the reset bios button on the back panel make sure all power is all unpluged and then rehook all up and try again i had to do it once on the same board to get it to work right after a new update with the bios