I've had this custom built pc for over a year, I didn't make it but I bought it from some dude who custom built it for himself.
It's great but it has problems booting or returning from being asleep.

I'd LOVE to turn my pc to sleep when I leave the house but half of the time it won't boot back on, or my peripherals won't turn on, or some other problem. I don't put it to sleep anymore because it CAUSES more problems than it fixes.

Lately it's been REALLY hot in my house. I've been turning my pc off while I sleep to keep my room cool for the past couple of days.



Problem day 1: Power on, case lights up, peripherals and monitor won't turn on. Press reset and it works.

Problem day 2: Power on, case lights up, peripherals power on, computer freezes at Windows logo screen.

Problem day 3 (today): Try powering on for about 20 minutes, case is lit up but peripherals and monitor won't turn on. I tried powering off and resetting for awhile. Eventually it all powered on, and my peripherals were lit up. It got to my desktop, but then my applications stopped starting up and I realized my mouse and keyboard were not responsive despite being lit up. I reset once and it FINALLY worked.

What could be causing this? As far as I'm aware, this pc has always had quirks trying to boot up. I've replaced the PSU from about 550w to 725w in the past 6 months. It's super annoying, my pc is great other than that issue. It would be nice to be able to turn it off.

Mobo: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-6100 at 3.3Ghz
Graphics: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7770 OC 1GB
PSU: Cooler Master Extreme 2 Power Plus 725W
RAM: 8GBHi

Could you check your Bios version , it's displayed when you are in the bios setup. That motherboard has 17 bios updates available and  and may need an update to support your CPU and the power features.

  Quote from: Lisa_maree on August 07, 2014, 04:02:06 PM

Hi

Could you check your Bios version , it's displayed when you are in the bios setup. That motherboard has 17 bios updates available and  and may need an update to support your CPU and the power features.

Hi

You just need the latest one. Some things to note if you can, backup your bios settings or at least write down the hard drive access mode. Backup the original bios before writing the new one. Also do you have another computer that you can get a bios recovery flash drive if you need it . If you don't it  would pay to make that before you flash the bios.

Hi
They are just safe guards

This is information on how to recover the Bios if something goes wrong
http://support.asus.com/Troubleshooting/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&m=M2N-E&s=24&hashedid=NFlvt10av3F7ayQ9&os=24&no=1722

And you can get the drive access mode from the bios set up under access mode.

You would be best to use a pen drive to update the bios . I don't know if the SD card will work.

If you do this incorrectly it could brick your motherboard so please read the Asus bios update procedure and ask if there is anything that isn't clear before proceeding.

Hi

A 2Gb flash drive will be big enough. You may be able to update the bios from within windows  as explained here
http://support.asus.com.tw/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&NO=714

 I have done this many times and not had a problem. But as it's not my board I just don't want you to not brick yours.

Hi

here is the motherboard manual if you haven't got it http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM3+/M5A97_R2.0/E7438_M5A97_R2.pdf

Have a look at page 3-28 of the manual, I have always used the pendrive method never updated the bios in Windows.

That   ASUS Update Utility doesn't support windows 8.1 in the version I linked.

Please follow the instructions to make a boot pen drive and use that method