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Clear CMOS, Make Changes, Then No Boot

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LilBuddy

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I'm having problem with my Abit NF-M2 Nview. I cleared my Cmos and made changes and rebooted and it won't boot up again. If I clear the Cmos again it will do the same thing over and over. What could be wrong?
 
Did you leave the bios reset jumper cap in the reset postion? I had an Abit A8N Ultra where I left the bios jumper cap in the "reset" postion (forgot to put it back) and I had this same problem. Bad news for me, it killed the board. I've still got it in the vain hopes that somehow it will work again when I have the time to play with it. But Abit told me that it doesn't necessarily kill the board, so you might not be out of luck.

I will tell you what they told me (if memory serves). Check the Cmos battery with a multimeter or something. It should read 3.3v (I believe). If its OK, unplug the box and press the power button (to clear any remaining electricty in the thing). Then take the battery out for an hour (I think an hour is unecessary but that's what they told me). Put it back in and see if it boots with the default bios options.

If the jumper cap is not the issue, it could be simply that you set somehting inocrrectly.
 
Well I got it working now. The jumper was right but every time I would go in and change all of the settings it wouldn't work again. I tried changing a few things at once and it works fine now. I'm testing it now seeing how far I can get it to go.
 
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