Need PC help so I can play with you fools again!

[Poker$tar$]

take the hard drive out, connect it to another computer, and check if you can either boot/access it

alrighty. I fell asleep at my computer "mono" and I was sweating balls. fml I just want to game! Why so much effort when I be sick

[ZERO]

He may need to reset the cmos jumper.

[Rosie]

I've never said hey to you before Poker, but if you still live in Boone, I can probally find you some kind of rig, or get your comp fixed free. I start App in the Summer, and I know you use to go there. If you do hit me up on Steam. Other than that I am always asking someone to troubleshoot, so I got nothing on this.

[Steamer]

He may need to reset the cmos jumper.

Old school pull out batter fix... lol. Newer mobo's usually have dual bios rom that is not volatile and will try and copy itself over leaving some nasty problems when a battery dies. ALSO, try and boot from CDROM without the HD plugged in, my bios actually copies itself to my HDD also in event of a catastrophe. HDD BIOS backups are a PITA to deal with though and have a high failure rate... Much easier to reflash.

Would you happen to have a Gigabyte mobo? Gigabyte has some well documented "black magic" bugs of not wanting to boot from a cdrom drive when bios gets corrupted... which in turn forces you to boot/recover from a usb drive with bios bin in root or sata cd drive with bios bin in root...

^DO THIS BOOT PROCEDURE BEFORE CLEARING CMOS! Gigabyte (idk about others) foolishly copies a backup in CMOS/HDD (dual chipped on newer models [bout time]) to use Q-Flash with. The issue sounds like more of a bin corruption than settings. Try and reflash with a CMOS backup before clearing it all-together.

*** Not responsible for your failed flash***

[Poker$tar$]

Old school pull out batter fix... lol. Newer mobo's usually have dual bios rom that is not volatile and will try and copy itself over leaving some nasty problems when a battery dies. ALSO, try and boot from CDROM without the HD plugged in, my bios actually copies itself to my HDD also in event of a catastrophe. HDD BIOS backups are a PITA to deal with though and have a high failure rate... Much easier to reflash.
I don't understand what you mean here, whats much easier to flash, the hard drive or reflashing in general?
Would you happen to have a Gigabyte mobo? Gigabyte has some well documented "black magic" bugs of not wanting to boot from a cdrom drive when bios gets corrupted... which in turn forces you to boot/recover from a usb drive with bios bin in root or sata cd drive with bios bin in root...

^DO THIS BOOT PROCEDURE BEFORE CLEARING CMOS! Gigabyte (idk about others) foolishly copies a backup in CMOS/HDD (dual chipped on newer models [bout time]) to use Q-Flash with. The issue sounds like more of a bin corruption than settings. Try and reflash with a CMOS backup before clearing it all-together.

*** Not responsible for your failed flash***

I have a gigabyte mobo with dual bios, it says it right on the mobo. um that kind of went over my head what you said, mostly bc I just woke up and I can't think straight after the drugs I just took. I need to re-read this a few times lol

can you help me boot from a usb drive? what all do I need to do? I have windows 7...what happens with a failed flash?

whats so wrong with clearing cmos?

[Steamer]

CMOS can hold a backup of your bios. Clearing it will destroy that backup. Take a usb stick, put bios bin in the main drive, no folder. Go to gigabytes website, find your mobo and dl the bios bin. They will also have all the info you need to learn how to use Q-Flash / w/e else and reflash your bios. Last time I updated I used the the bios tool from their site and new bin. Booted straight off the usb stick by pressing F8 @ bios to manually choose boot, loaded the flash app, picked bin, let it roll.

[mrhappypenguin]

I know my motherboard has two BIOS chips on the board, if the primary fails then it loads the secondary. Clearing the CMOS just sets the bios settings back to factory defaults. I've had to clear mine at least 10 times now from overclocking my system and having it not post at times.

What motherboard do you have? I'm using a GA-MA78G-DS3HP.

[ZERO]

Clearing the cmos does not just reset the default values but is more of a bios reformat which protects you against a corrupted bios. I have gotten corrupted bios many times as a result of strange crashes or the computer getting pissed over a failed boot rom. Just resetting the bios and then changing the needed settings is the fastest way to get your system booting again.

Also for those of you that may have noticed there was an issue where the new post was not accessible in that the 3rd page was not loading. This was due to a database corruption created from the issues with the server a few days ago. I have repaired all thread data and the issue should be resolved now.