UEFI bios menu display glitch

Hey!

I have a fairly new ASUS MB with an i7 processor, an XFX Radeon cards and usually two screens, my 40" 1080 Samsung TV and an old SyncMaster monitor that is not used much. My problem is in the bios/UEFI where not all menu items appear on the screen. They end up off screen in long lists of options where you can click down six times before the page itself begins to scroll. And so, in the list of SATA connectors and HDs so I can not see which drives recognized when half of the list is off the screen without being able to scroll down. The list is long enough that the system think it fits on one screen but not long enough to scroll down.

It feels like there is a problem with the aspect ratio, but it does not help to change the TV from 16:9 to 4:3. My old SyncMaster monitor, I would rather not use, it is so glitchy and often refuse to start.. I have it disconnected right now and only run with the TV ( HDMI > DVI cable).. I was hoping someone here has had any with similar experience in their UEFI setup and what solved their problem?

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I apologize for the poor quality cellphone picture but hopefully it demonstrates my problem. Notice the "OC Tune" menu item at the bottom row and is written on the version and copyright line .. Below that the list of menu items continue and I can never see the bottom 6 lines.

Hi rydan and welcome to the WTT forums,

Maybe using a large TV screen as your VDU on this computer is causing the problem

Try connecting an ordinary computer VDU so you can see the whole of the menus, at least this way you should be able to set it up the way you want it.

If your existing VDU is SynchMaster is unreliable then just borrow one.

Let us know how you getr on.

Regards

paws

Thanks! Ok, i will do that.. A little off topic, but this is however the reason i was checking the bios anyway: my 2 TB hdd is failing the S.M.A.R.T, check, so i disconnected it, bought a new one with 3 TB, the old one is on 2 partitions and i managed to backup one of them, however i restarted the computer and now, after boot up I can't find it. Is this salvageable you think, or is it beyond all hope?

Hi rydan

Ok all understood,

if the old 2TB hard drive failed the SMART test then it doesn't look too good  especially as your computer can no longer "see" it when it is connected as an additional drive.

 

Have you tried connecting it to a different computer and seeing if you can copy off your stuff on the other partition.?

 

Using a live distro of Linux( linux Puppy is good) is another avenue you could explore.

Regards

paws