- Joined
- Oct 9, 2001
- Location
- Dundalk, Ireland
Hi all.
For the last few years, I have had the Gigabyte 8INXP board, and for some reason that baffled me and everyone on this forum for a year, was my machine not booting when it powered on.
It (until a few minutes ago) would power on, screen staying black and do nothing.
It would attempt to restart by itself and again and then maybe boot into Windows successfully. Otherwise I would turn it off and try the whole process again.
A few minutes ago, I realised I never reset the CMOS, so i booted down and took out the battery, only to find a large drop of brown liquid on the top of the battery. I wiped it off, and left the CMOS 10 minutes to reset itself.
And lo and behold, it has booted EVERYTIME and restarted EVERYTIME.
Does anyone have an explaination for this? It couldn't have been shorting, because it booted eventually all the time, and the PC never randomly shut down, so what was it doing?
Oh yeah,
For the last few years, I have had the Gigabyte 8INXP board, and for some reason that baffled me and everyone on this forum for a year, was my machine not booting when it powered on.
It (until a few minutes ago) would power on, screen staying black and do nothing.
It would attempt to restart by itself and again and then maybe boot into Windows successfully. Otherwise I would turn it off and try the whole process again.
A few minutes ago, I realised I never reset the CMOS, so i booted down and took out the battery, only to find a large drop of brown liquid on the top of the battery. I wiped it off, and left the CMOS 10 minutes to reset itself.
And lo and behold, it has booted EVERYTIME and restarted EVERYTIME.
Does anyone have an explaination for this? It couldn't have been shorting, because it booted eventually all the time, and the PC never randomly shut down, so what was it doing?
Oh yeah,