I have a catouloge of disasters and to say I am geed off would be an understatement. The latest is my home build PC (of witch I am very proud, it is my baby). I had an error message come up saying that there was a hardware problem attached to a USB and it then crashed out of Vista. I rebooted it with a Vista boot disc this could not complete the boot and the screen went blank. I turned it off disconected it from the mains, reconected back to the mains and booted it up. Power is on but nothing screen cannot find a digital signal and no BIOS. Any suggestions where I start

Remove all peripheral devices.

Are your keyboard and mouse USB or PS/2?

If the former can you switch to the latter? Adapter etc.

Does the computer BEEP?

Reseat the RAM.

Clear the CMOS.

For starters.

Hi jephree, Keyboard and mouse are wireless and uses USB2 but could connect a wired board and mouse and the peep has never worked since I built it a one wire has come of the little speaker. What is the CMOS? and will change over the keyboard and mouse and reseat the ram. will report progress tomorow night. Thanks for the help

There is a jumper on the motherboard which clears the motherboard memory (CMOS).

This sets the board to default and would clear most any BIOS issue.

I will download your manual if you want as the instructions will be in there.

That would be very useful the motherboard is a Gigabite DA-965P-DS3, thank you for your help jephree

OK I'll get it ASAP.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2314


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Thanks jephree just downloaded, will have a look tomorow as off to bed now

I got it too. Very slowly. Will report later. Good night.

Ok here is the manual on Clearing CMOS:








The first two images assume you have a jumper that was provided with the motherboard.

The third image is a workaround if you cannot find this jumper then do the battery step.

Hi jephree I have tried to run the PC all the fans are working, I have reseated the RAM, disconected all the connections except the video card and power re booted and still nothing. When it said in the manual about shorting out CMOS am I to electricaly short by connecting the two pins with a metal object if so for how long?