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- Jun 17, 2005
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- California, PA
Every 9 months or so, I turn to these forums for help (used to be a regular, but hobbies change, however I know I can trust the problem solving skills of OC forum members) .
So.
I had my computer plugged in, nothing out of the ordinary, and turned it off since I was going to be out of town for the weekend. When I came back, I know the power in my apartment went out at least once because the clocks were flashing. So I try booting up my computer and it stops booting at the Gigabyte Bios screen. After many attempts at doing things, it still will not move past that screen. It won't respond to any keyboard commands (boot menu, show POST, etc) and thats it. I have moved RAM sticks in and out, swapped out graphics cards, unplugged, replugged and tried every combo of things. I popped the mini battery on the motherboard, I reset the CMOS multiple times.
So at one point, I had power to the motherboard and cpu. I had the CPU fan plugged in, an older geforce 7600 card, and once stick of RAM. The only other cable I had in was the power switch. I turn on the computer and everything is on, but it won't even show the BIOS flash screen. I swap out every RAM stick, in every slot, and sometimes it will show the BIOS, sometimes it won't. I'm at a total loss... I searched google for a bit with no luck, and Gigabytes troubeshooting guide doesn't have an option for a BIOS freezing before starting.
If anybody has any suggestions I'm willing to try it. All my components are listed in my signature... THANKS! (I'll probably be hanging by this thread all day, and so forth until this gets fixed).
So.
I had my computer plugged in, nothing out of the ordinary, and turned it off since I was going to be out of town for the weekend. When I came back, I know the power in my apartment went out at least once because the clocks were flashing. So I try booting up my computer and it stops booting at the Gigabyte Bios screen. After many attempts at doing things, it still will not move past that screen. It won't respond to any keyboard commands (boot menu, show POST, etc) and thats it. I have moved RAM sticks in and out, swapped out graphics cards, unplugged, replugged and tried every combo of things. I popped the mini battery on the motherboard, I reset the CMOS multiple times.
So at one point, I had power to the motherboard and cpu. I had the CPU fan plugged in, an older geforce 7600 card, and once stick of RAM. The only other cable I had in was the power switch. I turn on the computer and everything is on, but it won't even show the BIOS flash screen. I swap out every RAM stick, in every slot, and sometimes it will show the BIOS, sometimes it won't. I'm at a total loss... I searched google for a bit with no luck, and Gigabytes troubeshooting guide doesn't have an option for a BIOS freezing before starting.
If anybody has any suggestions I'm willing to try it. All my components are listed in my signature... THANKS! (I'll probably be hanging by this thread all day, and so forth until this gets fixed).