Hi all,
The other day I was playing around with some settings in the BIOS (notably the FSB speed) and I rather stupidly and unintentionally set the speed to 400mhz. The motherboard refused to post, so like you do, I removed the battery on the Mobo and restarted. Reset settings, restarted and all was well. Came to turn the thing on the next day and it refused to post again! So I removed the battery again for 30s or so to reset the CMOS and it booted up fine (but requiring me putting all my BIOS settings again!). So now, the thing refuses to start unless I go through this procedure. All the fans come on and the hard drives spin up but it refuses to post....no beeps or anything!
My guess is that it might be the battery going, but I've never had that happen before on a PC (although this is the first computer that gets moved around from Uni to home). I've breifly checked that all the cards are seated properly, and all seems well.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, cause it's seriously annoying having to take my battery out and reset everything each morning!
My system is:
Athlon XP3000+
Gigabyte GA-7NNXP nForce 2
1024Mb Corsair TwinX PC3200
nVidia GeForce FX5900Ultra
Creative SB Audigy 2
WiFi Card
Western Digital 7200rpm 120Gb SATA (Primary System)
Hitatchi 7200rpm 250Gb SATA (Secondary)
Thanks
EDIT: Meant to say that I have the latest BIOS revision and flashed it after I got this problem, so I don't think it's that
The other day I was playing around with some settings in the BIOS (notably the FSB speed) and I rather stupidly and unintentionally set the speed to 400mhz. The motherboard refused to post, so like you do, I removed the battery on the Mobo and restarted. Reset settings, restarted and all was well. Came to turn the thing on the next day and it refused to post again! So I removed the battery again for 30s or so to reset the CMOS and it booted up fine (but requiring me putting all my BIOS settings again!). So now, the thing refuses to start unless I go through this procedure. All the fans come on and the hard drives spin up but it refuses to post....no beeps or anything!
My guess is that it might be the battery going, but I've never had that happen before on a PC (although this is the first computer that gets moved around from Uni to home). I've breifly checked that all the cards are seated properly, and all seems well.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, cause it's seriously annoying having to take my battery out and reset everything each morning!
My system is:
Athlon XP3000+
Gigabyte GA-7NNXP nForce 2
1024Mb Corsair TwinX PC3200
nVidia GeForce FX5900Ultra
Creative SB Audigy 2
WiFi Card
Western Digital 7200rpm 120Gb SATA (Primary System)
Hitatchi 7200rpm 250Gb SATA (Secondary)
Thanks
EDIT: Meant to say that I have the latest BIOS revision and flashed it after I got this problem, so I don't think it's that