DH87RL: Missing BIOS splash

[DHeck]

Everything was working fine until I removed the motherboard to install a new CPU cooler. When I put everything back in, I guess I put the sata cables into different ports than they were originally.

The system would skip the BIOS splash screen and go to a message saying I was missing a boot device. I put a bootable CD in, but still got the message. I noticed that hitting F2 would not get me into the bios.

I rearranged the sata connectors and was able to boot into Windows, but there is still no bios splash screen and hitting F2 doesn't do anything.

Any ideas on how I can get into the bios?

[DHeck]

I managed to get into the bios by rearranging the sata cables again. I noticed that "Fast Boot" was checked (I must have set it sometime before doing my cooler upgrade). That explains the missing splash screen. Anybody know how you get into the bios setup when fast boot is enabled?

[Karthi_J_Intel]

Hi,

The way to do that is by accessing "Power Button Menu". See below for details

The Power Button Menu can be accessed during power on if the user presses the power button and holds it down until three short beep sounds are emitted by the board piezoelectric speaker. The BIOS will display the following prompt and wait for a keystroke:

[ESC] Normal Boot

[F2] Intel® Visual BIOS

[F3] Disable Fast Boot

[F4] BIOS Recovery

[F7] Update BIOS

[F10] Enter Boot Menu

[F12] Network Boot

NOTE

[F3] Disable Fast Boot is only displayed if at least one Fast Boot optimization is enabled.

[DHeck]

That answers my question, thanks!