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Computer fails to boot, ignores keyboard, can not get to BIOS
Oddly, it has not caught fire.
On the 22nd, I put the machine to sleep. Next morning I woke it up and got a bizarre screen. I had only 3 iterations of "this PC" and two icons for file manager. Nothing that was running when put to sleep was on screen. My gut feeling was MS had done it to me again. I have had several updates done overnight that did not reboot correctly the next day.
So I left it going for a while. Drive active light would go on for a few seconds at sort of random intervals. Eventually (maybe 40 minutes) I was convinced nothing was happening. Sometime in that interval I believe Bitdefender showed up Maybe something else but it was not right. I saw it just before hitting power down.
I tried restarting several times. When I hit reset or power off It got no further than the BIOS screen asking me to press F2 or delete to get to the bios. Somewhere along the line I saw a message go past that said there was no keyboard. I could not get into the BIOS after many tries.
I tried booting with a USB stick built to use WinPE and a bunch of applications to do repairs. It should boot as either UEFI or the earlier boot process. That failed to do anything different. Machine not doing anything and F2 key will not get me to the BIOS.
OK- What I have.
Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe MB. Keyboard is an OmniKey. Mouse is a Logiteck wireless. I tried swapping an identical working mouse and RF plugin. The MB has no PS2 connector. The keyboard is attached to an adapter and into a USB 2 port.
Win 10, the Vanilla version. I had delay update set, but it has been months to maybe that night was my night.
I have gotten two different "Q Codes" that stayed up long enough to read. A2, which says IDE detect. Then it settles on E0 which says S3 resume is started(S3 Resume PPI is called by the DXL IPL). And that is where it stays.
I have found a bunch of posts in various places of the behavior, but none seem to match what I have.
Hope some of you guys have some ideas.