Looks like the bios is not biting well with my set up. After finding out about the flashback option I have tried all three bios updates available now. that's 0902, 1001, and 0038. Prior to these I had a constant vram qcode (61). Now I get to the bios splash screen, but it wont recognise any keyboard presses (f2 or del).
My system
Asus crosshair VI
1 stick of 16GB (3200mhx) corsair vengeance DDR4 CMU32GX4M2C3200C16B. Also treid some low latency 3000mhz but did really expect any result from this.
msi 1080
Corsair strafe silent keyboard (also tried a g15)
everything else removed.
I have tried all memory slots.
Looking forward to more bios updates. I have a week before I rma this setup.