Restart and CMOS

[sm100378]

Hi,

I have a situation that I just cannot resolve.

I have a custom built desktop. I recently have replaced the motherboard, video card, and hard drive. The problem that I am having, and only started a couple months ago is that if I restart or power off my computer, the next time I turn it on/restarts, it will bring me to a black screen with a cursor blinking. There is no opportunity to type anything, and it isn’t in the “startup mode of windows”, it just sits like that. What I have found to resolve this is each time I restart the computer is to short the CMOS pins, which I believe resets the entire computer memory and/or bios. My desktop and files are still there, but for some reason this problem exists and I have no idea how it started or what to do to permanently rectify it. Sometimes it takes a few CMOS shorts and restarts to get it to actually run the windows startup and get me to the desktop.



Any ideas on why this is happening and what I can do to resolve it?


Many many thanks!

 

[Jewdai]

try checking the bios maybe you'll find something screwy there

 

[The_Other_One]

If you have the bios set to some quick setting, try and slow it down. I'm curious where it actually locks up; if it's during POST or right as it tries to boot. I know it's not too uncommon to have a blinking cursor just before the boot process. However, resetting the CMOS wouldn't fix that...?

Since you have seemed to limit it to the BIOS, have you tried flashing it?

 

[sm100378]

Thank you all. I went into the bios and switched a few things. Must have been an odd setting, not sure how though.


Thanks again.