Problem - Please help!
I got an early Christmas present today. An Acer 19" monitor. I hooked it up with the DVI cable and started the pc up, I got all the way to my desktop and then my the monitor just wen to no signal. I tried started the pc again and it said I needed to reset my "overclocking features", so I did. It didn't work and I got another NO signal. I switched to the VGA cable and started it again, it again went to my desktop and got me all the way to facebook before it went to no signal. I tried starting the pc but it isn't doing anything. I hooked up my old monitor and tried starting the pc but the monitor still isn't getting a signal.
Could my CMOS battery be dead? What would cause this?
Could my CMOS battery be dead? What would cause this?
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Does this sound like a reasonable conclusion?
If that doesn't fix it, remove one memory stick.
When my DFI fails booting, it does it for me
I believe I do have a spare! All my fans and peripherals (wireless card) are getting power though!
One question though. If the motherboard was bad would the chipset/cpu fan run and would my peripherals receive power?
My CPU fan seems to be running really fast. If my CMOS battery was dead would the PC still try and power on/could that cause my monitor not getting a signal. It kept telling me to reset my 'overclocking' features.
I cannot, I reset the bios when I was getting a signal to my monitor. I got as far as my desktop and then the monitor lost signal. I'm not getting a signal to any monitor I try.
Exactomundo.
YAD has a good point. Also, video cards are susceptible too static shock. I killed a video card by walking across a carpet, building a charge, and discharging it with the card when I touched the computer case.
I think I found a friend of my mom's that has a PCI-e x16 slot. So I'll probably be going over there sometime today to try it out.