Cant enter bios setup on K8N NEO2 Platinum

I have just finished building new box, loading XP, all my core programs , used live bios to update to 1.b and left for 3 days to burn cpu in (using folding program, stable and no heat problems encountered), now i cant enter bios setup , when i hit del to enter bios setup, i get a flashing cursor top left of a black screen and it just hangs there, no key commands work and it requires a reboot , all programs and bench tests are working correctly, i just cant get into bios to start tweaking. Any ideas or solutions would be appreciated.

here you go:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=88211.msg632728#msg632728

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