HELP PC wont start

Deathrow

Deathrow

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I am using a P5N32-E SLI motherboard.

I was having problems when the pc started up, it would stop on POST checks after the CPU or sometimes it would go all the way through without stopping so I decided resetting CMOS may help. When I started up after resetting CMOS I get an AI Lifestyle P5N32-E SLI screen. I have the options of: "Press DEL to enter SETUP, Press TAB to display BIOS POST Message. If I press DEL it says "Entering setup...." but doesn't do anything, if I press TAB it just stays on the AI Lifestyle P5N32-E SLI screen.

Im wondering what it could be, its as tho BIOS doesn't exist, maybe I need to flash BIOS? How would I do that? Any ideas for what it might be?

Thank you.
 
Theres an os on already, windows vista. I tried booting from the vista disk also but it just flashed the white _ for ages and didnt do anything.

Anyone know the problem and how it can be fixed?
 
well i mean that you need to have it booted. flashing it is a exe file that run on windows. also try reseting it this time tho take the sliver battery and all the other power sorces and wait 30 sec.
 
brianmay27 said:
well i mean that you need to have it booted. flashing it is a exe file that run on windows. also try reseting it this time tho take the sliver battery and all the other power sorces and wait 30 sec.
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You mean turn it off, remove the battery and other sources and restart.

What other power sources? and what will this do?
 
Remove EVERYTHING you dont need from computer

So Your left with

Hard drive
CPU
CPU Heatsink
Motherboard
Power Supply
RAM
GPU
Optical Drive (just 1 if you have 2)
Keyboard.

Nothing Else

Remove Battery for 10 minutes (recommended > 5 minutes, to completely Be sure)

Re-insert Battery

Try getting to bios then.
 
Ok I kinda fixed it, it boots with 2gb of memory but not with 4gb, what should I do? Tried the windows fix but when I try to install it just says "You dont need this update"
 
If I have 2gb in it works fine, when I put 4gb in it stops on post. It was fine with 4gb before I reset cmos, so maybe a bios option needs changing?
 
If you are running either of the 32 bit OS's then all you really can use of that ram is 3 gigs, since a 32 bit OS will not see anything above 3 gigs anyways.
 
Deathrow said:
If I have 2gb in it works fine, when I put 4gb in it stops on post. It was fine with 4gb before I reset cmos, so maybe a bios option needs changing?
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Look up what voltage and timing your ram runs at stock and make sure the bios has it set right, you might try setting it to spec. manually with just 2 sticks and shut down and put all 4 in and reboot and see if it works
 
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