Re: press 4 to unlock core

On 2020-10-22 10:07, bad sector wrote:
> 
> Having 'increasing' probs with my 8-core AMD destktop. The board is
> an asus-xhair-IV
> 
> 
> Boot often doesn't even begin and pops the subject error message 
> which includes "or F.. to load defaults" and words of this nature.
> 
> CPU temps never above 50c.
> 
> 
> BIOS should come up by touching "Del" but it takes a dozen attempts 
> for that to work with my new usb gaming keyboard.
> 
> This morning bios just would  not detect 2 of my data drives in sata
>  slots 3 & 4 (using a 5-bay rack with 1-4 sata reserved).
> 
> 
> After I don't know how many reboots bios still wasn't detecting but
> "fdisk -l" finally picked one of them up.
> 
> On the last boot bios detected it too, got it mounted, and it's 
> presently taking 1tb of backups.
> 
> I would just like some ballpark hunches to start with, what
> 
> do symptoms like this suggest? Mobo, rack, bios?

tried another trick too:

When the "press 4 to activate the Asus Core unlocker"
showed up I knew I did not have enough  time to cycle
the keyboard usb connection to another or to the same
usb port, BUT that there was a good chance that the
alert would show again on the next boot. On this first
boot the grub boot menu would have showed up and
THEN I would have had the time tio cycle the connection
if needed.

But I wanted to experiemnt so I re-booted with the
keyboard disconnected ready to connect it when I
see the alert and being at the same time ready to hit
the 4 key.  It worked.

So to my brain-stem level expertise it looks like the
keyboard is not recognized initially but an insertion is.

NB. I'm always using the mobo usb ports only, the
ones on the back and never the fron panel addons.