Area-51 R2, cannot boot into Bios?

I am curious. After you cloned the old drive did you shutdown the system and disconnect the old drive before attempting to boot off the new drive? Then if everything looks fine shut down and reconnect the old drive and reboot.

After a few failed attempts to reboot into bios, I shutdown and removed the old C drive. Upon start up my computer automatically boots directly into windows... The new SSD was automatically recognized as the C drive. However, I still can not boot into bios. The main problem was solved, idk how, but not I have a new problem. I can not boot into bios if I ever need to. Why can't I boot into bios? When I press F2 or F12 I just get a "no signal" message on the monitor. 

Is this the original video card that came with the system, or aftermarket card?

looks like a ata or raid thingy..

One fast way to go to bios:

In windows 11, restart while holding left shift key for a few seconds

 a menu will appear.. choose troubleshoot/advance options/ UEFI menu

depending win version it may be different. you may to use start settings menu

or recovery option menu and find UEFI start option

I have windows 10 not 11. I've already tried this. no luck. 

IDK what that means

No. I just recently upgraded from the nvidia 970 to the nvidia GTX 1080.

In the power setting (win10) do you have fast strartup option?  Disable it if enabled and try : shutdown the computer and restart

I've already tried this. No luck.

Re: I have a new problem. I can not boot into bios if I ever need to. Why can't I boot into bios? When I press F2 or F12 I just get a "no signal" message on the monitor. 

this is a common problem.  make sure you are using a wired USB keyboard that is verified working on another desktop for F2.  Tap the F2 key repeatedly as soon as A51R2 power button is pressed, but do not press down F2 all the time.

try clear cmos settings.

(1) replace cmos battery with a brand new CR2032.  

(2) clear cmos settings by motherboard jumper

1. Locate the CMOS jumper (CLEAR_CMOS1) on the system board. See “System-Board Components”.
2. Remove the jumper plug from pins 2 and 3 and fix it on pins 1 and 2.
3. Wait for approximately five seconds to clear the CMOS setting.
4. Remove the jumper plug from pins 1 and 2 and replace it on pins 2 and 3

    

I'm not familiar with your bios, but in my system (R10) if I change memory modules (remove,add or change) I get a notice page ( at bootup) advising that a change was made and gives me an option button to get into the bios menu or continue to windows.Maybe you have something like that.

If you can't choose your boot device ( no f2/f12) it makes it harder to solve the problem.

 I presume you tried the CMOS reset/ power drain option.I would then check the window install with the sfc and dism utilities. Only plug just the necessary USB accessories  even try a different (regular) keyboard  on a different USB port.

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@Uber Kommandanten Jager wrote:

However, I still can not boot into bios. The main problem was solved, idk how, but not I have a new problem.

I can not boot into bios if I ever need to. Why can't I boot into bios? When I press F2 or F12 I just get a "no signal" message on the monitor. 

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You will have to use one of the other video-ports on the Nvidia card.

If you are only using Display-Port, that should work. But if you are trying to use DVI, you might have to use a Display-Port-to-DVI-Adapter to see the BIOS.

That is the issue. Some of these systems do not work well together with aftermarket cards and one of the symptoms is not being able to access the BIOS screen.

If you still have the original 970 card, use that one to access the BIOS.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/shutdown

at a command prompt (admin) or window terminal (admin) type +enter

shutdown /r /fw /t 00