om3n

Ok, at what point will it not "boot?" Does it go through post? Can you access the BIOS? Will it just not load windows? What do you mean by boot?

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BiG O

Maybe you didn't reset the CMOS correctly.

You need to make sure you have the power completely disconnected from your machine. Then, on your motherboard, pull out the battery that looks like a watch battery. Wait for a few minutes and put it back in, and plug the power back in. You should be set.

If you have already done this, try booting with different RAM.

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Al8888

By "boot" i mean that i cant even see the intel logo when my pc starts. I Cannot Go To The Bios. Ive tried taking out the ram, disconnecting and reconnecting all parts, i took out the battery-everything i possibly can i suppose. One thing i dont understand is what is CMOS? Thankyou for all your help.

Al8888

Is there any other way to reset the bios as im sure thats the only problem.

om3n

CMOS is basically your computers boot instructions. If you remove all power to your board for long enough to drain all of the capacitors on the board (hence removing the battery and the power supply) it will reset your boards cmos settings to stock, allowing you to boot if you caused no hardware damage.

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and yes, this will reset all BIOS settings to stock as well.

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biltong

I had an issue, where it would sit in an infinite reboot loop. It started doing this after I put a new wireless card in, but I managed to fix it by swapping my sound card and wireless card around. Try this:

Take EVERYTHING off, except CPU, that includes hard drive, memory, any PCI card you have, and your graphics card (only if you have onboard graphics). See if it boots or if you get any sounds from the onboard speaker, or if your power light flashes or does anything strange. Then, one by one, put all your components back in. First your memory, reboot, see what happens. If it stops at memory, try only using one stick of mem at a time then rebooting. Continue this process until you figure out what caused the problem. If it still doesn't boot, then it looks like your board is dead. Send it in.

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selece

Hi Al8888,

You can download the manual here

Read it and there should be sections there about how to reset CMOS.

Good luck

myresolution_72

Take the battery out for a few minutes and that should do the trick. Same thing happened to me today when I was trying to set my Memory to the ADVERTISED 4-4-4-15 and they won't go lower then 5-5-5-18.

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selece

Some mobo requires a jumper being reset to clear the CMOS settings... give that manual a read!