remove battery or no video
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Try a new battery. A weak battery can actually make you believe the bios is corrupted seeing a variety of problems. Windows sounds has an item there for critical battery to alert you when a battery is weak and on the way out you can assign any wav file to.
ONE FURTHER ITEM: Don't start a second thread for the same problem. This is being discussed already on your first thread.
ONE FURTHER ITEM: Don't start a second thread for the same problem. This is being discussed already on your first thread.
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prodigy2k7
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Oh yes, the battery is meant to keep some power to the mobo to save information in the BIOS (something like that). So yes it was in use the whole time for 8 months. Also batteries to lose their power over time, even if not in use.
chibicitiberiu
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To be more precise, that's how it always displays the correct date, and that's how it keeps the BIOS settings as you set them.
A weak battery will cause any number of problems. I ran the last build for a full year and then one it wouldn't do anything. No fans started! No lights even blinked. An immediate thought was to go out and get a new one and waa laa... it fired right up.
The battery that came with the board simply went doa. Ever buy a new universal remote and see the cheap batteries that come wrapped up? You end up going out and buying a brand name set to replace them. I just added something about what was seen with one old build on the first thread.
The battery that came with the board simply went doa. Ever buy a new universal remote and see the cheap batteries that come wrapped up? You end up going out and buying a brand name set to replace them. I just added something about what was seen with one old build on the first thread.
ok i put a new battery in and same problem. i must clear cmos to get video. for some reason since i built the computer windows likes to pop up a blue screen real quick with numbers and letters on it while it is loading. when the bar is moving across under the logo before windows starts. then restarts
it always takes a lot of attempts to get it up but now i have to power down clear cmos to get video after it crashes and restarts
if i restart the computer before i press f1 to continue when it says cmos checksum error then i do not need to clear cmos and i will get video. if its after like when windows crashes during boot then i do need to clear cmos.
i put in a HDD with windows me on it from a older computer and it starts but all i get is new hardware found and no explorer. and if i restart again i have to clear cmos.
what i am thinking is if i can get a hold of a copy of windows i can format the drive get windows started and update the bios with gigabytes program. i hope this will work. i just dont want to go spend 100 bucks on windows and it may not.
o and it is not on board video its a agp card
it always takes a lot of attempts to get it up but now i have to power down clear cmos to get video after it crashes and restarts
if i restart the computer before i press f1 to continue when it says cmos checksum error then i do not need to clear cmos and i will get video. if its after like when windows crashes during boot then i do need to clear cmos.
i put in a HDD with windows me on it from a older computer and it starts but all i get is new hardware found and no explorer. and if i restart again i have to clear cmos.
what i am thinking is if i can get a hold of a copy of windows i can format the drive get windows started and update the bios with gigabytes program. i hope this will work. i just dont want to go spend 100 bucks on windows and it may not.
o and it is not on board video its a agp card
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Often a weak battery will cause the problem you are seeing. The checksum error however points at the even more likely problem of having a corrupted bios.
How old is the system there? You might see this corrected by simply going for an update if that model board has been out for some time. Often an update will include a fix for a bug. You could also be looking at a bad eprom by a rare chance.
How old is the system there? You might see this corrected by simply going for an update if that model board has been out for some time. Often an update will include a fix for a bug. You could also be looking at a bad eprom by a rare chance.
You say you replaced the battery with a (good) one, if so make sure its in right. If your getting a cmos checksum error it means something has changed in the values of the bios since it was last booted. You say you have been resetting the bios, just by chance your not doing it backwards. Having the jumper set to clear and booting will do the same thing. If you know everything is set correct when you get into the bios pick reset defaults- save and exit. See if that helps.