system won't boot after playing in BIOS

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After playing with advanced settings in BIOS (don't even remember exactly what I changed), my systme won't boot anymore, not even to the BIOS screen. I see a black screen and have a continous beep sound. What can I do ?

 

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Reset the BIOS, you should have a jumper somewhere. If not remove the battery for a little while and let it reset. After it boots again don't mess with settings that you don't know about. Read alot and good luck.

 

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Like wannaoc said, turn the power off to your computer and use the clear CMOS jumper to clear the BIOS.

 

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Just would like to comment, if you use the removal of the battery method..try booting it without the battery in it first, then turn off, put battery in and reboot.

Sounds strange, but once before in my past, it wasn't working for some reason, until i did that..

BUT, make sure you have all power out of mobo, or CMOS won't clear..

Good Luck!


-Kyle

 

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The baterry removal method worked.
I couldn't erase the BIOS with the reset jumper method.
I removed the jumper, put it back in but still didn;t work.
Was I doing soemhthing wrong ??

 

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Normally there are 3 pins for the reset jumper (let's call them 1-2-3). Under normal running conditions, the jumper is installed on pins 1 & 2. In order to clear the BIOS, you have to install the jumper on pins 2 & 3 for about 10 secs (sometimes it takes up to a minute), and then put the jumper back on pins 1 & 2. Then you can try powering up your computer.

 

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ANd on some motherboards you can hold the <insert> key while booting which will boot to default bios settings.

 

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Kendan ANd on some motherboards you can hold the <insert> key while booting which will boot to default bios settings.

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Also on some that are compatible with the insert key method, it does not work **COUGH** DFI LANPARTY **COUGH**......Uhumm......