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Hi, I decided to give XMP a shot on my pc, i have 2 hyperx predator 8gb 3200mhz sticks, defaulting to 2133mhz. So I wanted to try and get the most out of my RAM and turn on XMP. This is where things get weird, I go into BIOS and turn on one of the default XMP profiles and save and quit. PC restarts, but I get no POST or power into my keyboard/mouse. Next thing, i remove one stick of ram, same result. I proceed to clear CMOS and start with 1 stick, the pc posts and i get power to everything like normal. i power down and put in the 2nd stick, nothing, no post and no power to keyboard/mouse. I try to start back up again with the one stick, nothing. Clear CMOS and start with 1 stick, everything is normal. So what should i be doing next, i'm kinda lost.

Hey. So yesterday while just watching youtube my pc randomly restarted. It then turned on again, i thought it was whatever, but then it restarted again. So I clicked the Clear CMOS button on the back of my motherboard, and now when I turn it on I can't get any signal to my monitor. The EZ Debug Led's on my motherboard says it's something to do with the CPU. It turns on under the CPU label for about 8 seconds and then turns off, no beeping or anything else. I've tried switching the CPU cable in the PSU, tried clearing CMOS multiple times, even took out the CMOS battery, and tried the JBAT1 thing. I'm suspicious that my CMOS doesn't clear because my motherboard LEDs still lights up above my ram which apparently means that XMP is on, which I don't think it should be when I've cleared CMOS. I have no clue what to do next. Please share your experiences if you have any or if you have any suggestions for what the problem is or a solution! Thanks! PC parts: MB: MSI x470 Gaming pro carbon CPU: 3900x GPU: MSI Armor 2070 PSU: Corsair RM750x Gold 80+ RAM: 32GB 3200mhz Corsair Vengeance Cooler: NZXT X62 Kraken BIOS: Version 7B78v2D

Hello all, Here's my system, for future reference: R5 3600, Asrock x570 Phantom Gaming ITX-TB3, MSI Ventus RTX 2060 Super, 16(2x8)gb Gskill Ripjaws 5 3600mhz, Crucial 512gb NVME, Samsung 850 Evo 1tb, WD Blue 4tb, Ncase M1, Silverstone 700W SFX PSU. My current issue is that windows time and date service isn't keeping, well up to date. I've already looked around online and have tried restarting the windows time service in services.msc, as well as changing the time server. Every time I turn off my pc, and start it back up again, the time doesn't update the the current time, even after waiting a few minutes and doing some work. If I turn my PC off at 11pm the night before, it will resume from 11pm the next day and continue on without realizing its mistake and changing the time. The only to solve this problem is manually press the sync now button. I've also run the sfc/scannow to see if there were any issues, none to be found. I have no pending windows updates. My last resort is the CMOS battery, though I doubt that is the issue. I run an undervolt on my ryzen system, as well as an xmp profile, and it hasn't been resetting regularly, so I don't believe that's it. Plus, I'm really not into putting the effort into dismantling the system at the moment just to get to CMOS. If it comes to that, I will. I'd appreciate all your help. If you think that this doesn't belong in this section of the forum, let me know. Thanks!

Hi, up until yesterday I was perfectly fine with my system (listed below) doing stuff as always. While I was playing a game system just shut down completely no sign of life even on/off button led on mobo (which stays lit while the system is turned off) was gone. I tried to restart nothing happened. I did some googling and tried stuff like unplugging psu and all the cables from the mobo, clearing cmos, taking off the cmos battery, waiting for a while and such but no result. After all these, I am stuck in a state that just clear cmos button blinking nothing else. As a last resort, I tried q flash plus thing. I took off everything from the mobo all the cables, cpu, gpu, ram, ssd, etc. Just plugged the 24pin and 8pin power cable and plugged a USB on the white USB port on rear IO (as instructed in manual with the right file name and USB format etc. btw I downloaded the latest bios version which is currently F30). When I turned the power on, the same thing just blinking clear cmos button and q flash plus button also does not do anything. It would be perfect if someone can helped in desperation right now. 1kVA online UPS x570 Aorus Master (at bios version F11 at the time of failure) Ryzen 3950x Nvidia Quadro 4000 ( yes I do play games on quadro) G.skill 64GB 3600MHz Corsair h150i Corsair hx850i Corsair fans 4x120mm Samsung Evo 970

Hi, I just built my new pc with new everything except for my GPU. Now every time I turn it on, it powers up, fans are spinning, GPU fan is spinning, GPU has light, but there is no display. My motherboard's debug LED has a white light on VGA. I have tried reseating my GPU and verifying that cables are tightly plugged in, but issue still persists. To resolve the issue, I have to stick a screwdriver in JBAT1 header in the motherboard (I believe this is to clear CMOS and reset BIOS) every time. When I do this, and presses the power button, my machine powers up for few seconds, then it turns off, and then turns on again, this time without any issues. I just don't think this is normal for a new computer. Any ideas why it happens? Is my GPU failing? This was working in my old computer :(. Build CPU: i7-12700F Motherboard - MSI MAG B660M Mortar Wifi GPU: Asus GTX 960 Turbo OC SSD1 - Kingston KC3000 NVME 1TB SSD2 - Crucial P5 Plus NVME 1TB RAM - 2x16gb G Skill Ripjaws PSU - Seasonic GX 750

I have 32gb 3600hz ram i bought today and i enabled xmp and everything was going fine. Until later today when I enabled some setting and I don't know which one that had something about the ram Speed to do with. And i restarded but PC didn't wanna boot. So i removed the cmos battery and that didn't work. I Saw the CPU LAMP lighting Up and One ram stick lighting Up so i tried removing that stick and that didn't work neither. I then tried only 2 sticks and neither did that. PLEASE help

So I built this pc around mid December of 2021. It's been serving me well until my power supply died on me and I had to get a new one. The power supply was old and looked sketchy, so I was kind of expecting it. Ever since I built it, even before my PSU died, I've had this issue every month or so. I would power on my pc and watch the lights on my motherboard to make sure everything boots up correctly. It would never successfully get to the boot light. The first time I boot it up, the lights would loop around four times, only reaching the VGA light until it restarts again. After that, the light will stay on and would never actually boot up. I made sure to see if it was just being slow and it wasn't. I waited over 24 hours for it to boot at that state before and it never did. Of course I did my own troubleshooting and found a temporary fix for it. I would take out the CMOS battery for around 5-10 minutes, letting all the power from my pc come out before doing so, and then put it back in and everything would be normal. It would do the boot loop thing again but instead of staying at the VGA light, it would finally boot up. It would be fine until a few weeks later when the issue would arise again. I ended up getting a new battery to replace my old one, thinking that it was the issue, but it didn't stop anything. I always thought it was an issue with my power supply, but now that I've replaced it with a newer one with a higher voltage, my ideas have plateaued. I'm starting to think it's an issue with my motherboard, but I don't have any reasoning behind that. I've attached some videos. The first one was before I reset the CMOS and the second one was after. The first video is in 5x speed and the second is in 7.5x speed because of the file size limit. IMG_1010.MOV IMG_1012.MOV My specs: mobo: ASUS Rog Strix B550-A PSU: Corsair RM750W in White CPU: Ryzen 5 5600G GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1650 SSD 1: ADATA 500GB SATA SSD SSD 2: Western Digital 1TB M.2 SSD RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB 8GB x2 Case: NZXT H510 in White OS: Windows 10

i ordered a new ram and it wont boot up and after that i put back the original ram but it wont boot now, i tried resseting the cmost but it dint help i tried the differrent ram from my other computer but it dint work ᶦ ᵗʰᶦⁿᵏ ᶦ ᵏᶦⁿᵈᵃ ᵇʳᵒᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒᵗʰᵉʳᵇᵒᵃʳᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜᵐᵒˢ

Hi guys, This is the first time im using the LTT forum so if I'm doing this wrong please advise but I just sold a computer and it was working perfectly normally before I dropped it off and once they brought it home and turned the computer on it would show the American Megatrends and at the bottom it said “After setting up Intel Optane Memory or the RAID configuration was built. Sata Mode Selection must be changed to Raid mode to avoid unknown issue." The motherboard also showed error A2 at the top corner which means its having trouble reading drives so I told them to unplug the Hard Drive and turn it on again. Same issue, I told them to reseat the memory modules, nothing. I told them to pull out the cmos and put it back in after a minute. Still same error. I did some digging around and only found that it might be fixed by replacing the cmos but im not 100% sure thats the fix. I also never had the drives in Raid (Is that even possible between an m.2 and a harddrive?) PC components RTX 3060 xc i5-8600k 16gb 3200mhz ram 500gb western digital sn550 m.2 ssd 320gb hard drive, cant remember the company Mobo is Asus Hero Maximus X wifi Every component was used but the gpu. They also had the cable from the monitor sticking out of the gpu so I know that's not an issue and on the screen it showed all the components that I listed.

today i came home and turned on my computer to find out it wouldn't ever post, yet be stuck on VGA (the lights on my mobo showing the boot process. everything would run according to plan, but the VGA light would stay on and would never transition into the BOOT light). after panicking for a little, i went and searched up what could be the problem and what i can troubleshoot. one of the many articles i found said that i could have faulty ram. so, i took out my ram sticks and tried to put each one in individually to find out if that was the problem. turns out that wasn't the problem and a new problem arises as i put them back where they were: my computer won't take any power. so i panic some more and i push one of my ram sticks down more. my computer starts to boot up, but when i let go, it stops receiving power and stops booting/shuts off. this made me realize that my ram sticks aren't FULLY in, despite the clicks i heard when i put them in. i haven't had this issue before and it seems like nobody else i've talked to has either. before this, i also had some issues with the CMOS and i've had to clear it every 1-2 months or so due to display issues (my computer would boot and post, but no display was shown on my monitor). clearing the CMOS did fix it, though. this is my first pc build and i'm pretty new to the whole pc gaming world so i don't have much knowledge. has anyone had any of these issues before? does anyone know how to fix them? any help is appreciated! my pc specs: CPU - Ryzen 5 5600G GPU - MSI Geforce GTX 1650 MOBO - ASUS Rog Strix B550-A RAM - 2 x 8gb Corsair Vengeance RGB SSD - Western Digital SN550 NVMe M.2 SSD 1tb (note: i have a second ssd that came with my old prebuilt. it's not an m.2 slot one and it was 500gb) PSU - High Power (model: HPG-500BR-F12S) 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (note: this psu also came with my old prebuilt. i have never heard of this brand) CASE - NZXT H510 in White

My laptop is a IONICO model from Pcspecialist. CPU: i7-10875H GPU: 3070 laptop MOTHERBOARD: tongfang gm7mg7p I was trying to do some stuff on the BIOS and I enabled CSM Support by mistake. Then, the laptop suddenly shutted down and since then, when I try to turn it on, I have no video output and BIOS just doesn't boot at all. The motherboard turns on. I mean, the PC turns on. Fans turns on, laptop's keyboard leds turn on, but after a few secs fans go off and if I touch the power button for less then a sec the laptop turns off. So, I suppose that the BIOS just doesn't turn on/POST at all. What I tried: - CMOS reset: removed battery and CMOS battery for 1m, 2m, 5m, 8h and 3 days (also pressing the power button to fully discharge any component before connecting the batteries) - I thought that maybe after an eventual CMOS reset the laptop monitor might have some connectivity issue so I tried to connect it through displayport and through HDMI. Same shit, again. - I tried to turn it on with each ramstick on both ports. Nothing changed. I contacted a computer store, told them everything and basically they said smth like "bruh we would do just what u did, there is nothing else to do and we don't know what the diagnose might be". If I knew only the issue and not the cause, I would thinking something like "bruh you deepfried ur mobo", but I just enabled a stupid bios option and people who had the same issue usually fixed just resetting CMOS. Plus, there is no reason to think any of the components are damaged. I'm trying to figure out the issue and see if it's fixable because many people had bad experiences with the PCSpecialist RMA, plus they usually take 1-2 months and since I use my laptop to work, I can't afford to waste that amount of time. I contacted them by email for a IT consult but it was like talking to an animal with a very low IQ. I also looked for the mobo's manual but I didn't find literally anything related to it (maybe coz they just sell mobos that get rebranded). Did I miss anything at all in the equation? I will appreciate any kind of support/advice.

Tldr; I cleared my CMOS and now I can't boot up my PC past the BIOS. I cleared my CMOS as a solution to a monitor not working, and while that fixed the monitor problem, now I can't actually get into Windows and am stuck on the BIOS. I've tried changing my Boot Priority (which worked when I first built the machine) but doesn't work now it seems. The SSD with the OS doesn't show up as an option, but then again it didn't before either so I tried changing the mode from UEFI to CSM and that started Windows Recovery but everything I tried in there either looped me back to the main Windows Recovery screen or just did nothing. The SSD is currently out at MicroCenter getting backed up juuuuuust in case, but I'm happy to try any solutions you all have once I get it back. Thanks in advance! Specs if needed: MB: Asus B550 Tomahawk CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: Nvidia 2060 Super SSD: 2TB M.2 Nvme (this has the OS on it) PSU: 500W 80+ Bronze Rosewill RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance Running Windows 10

So I was going to play valorant with my friend and got an error 9003. Looked it up and it said my secure boot wasn't enabled, turns out it wasn't. So I went to bios and activated it. Saved and exited then my pc just blanked. No display, no usb functionality. The PC was on, but I couldn't do anything. Asked for help in the LTT discord and they told me to remove the CMOS battery. I did that. Quickly reseated it, nothing. Took it out for 10+ minutes and pushed the power button with the PC unplugged to hopefully discharge the capacitors, still nothing. Now I'm writing this post. I spent over $1,000 on this PC, it's a huge upgrade from what I had and I love it, but I literally can't even get to the bios. I have searched this issue up and I'm not the first to have it, but the solutions look few and far between; not to mention how niche most people's solutions have been. I'm really hoping someone here can help me, please. I'm at school and I really need this computer operating before classes start. My specs: aorus b550 elite ax v2 rev 1.1 Ryzen 7 5800x RTX 3060 (I'm running windows 11)

Hey There, I'm having trouble with my computer when I boot it up. For a good month or so now when I have been booting up my PC my BIOS settings always get reset, my PC doesn't post, and then I have to press the reset button to get it to post and I have to put them back in every time and then my PC then goes through into windows. Now this week, the problem has been getting worse, where I get up to the point where I have to put my BIOS settings back in, then sometimes it just goes through to a black screen (no error codes), sometimes it posts and is loading into windows then shuts itself off again and boot cycles, sometimes the PC has to repair itself, sometimes it just doesn't post at all. I have tried resetting windows 10. My motherboard is an Asus Crosshair VIII Impact, and I have windows installed on 2x Corsair MP510 480gb SSD's in RAID 0 (I know its stupid but I only use my computer for games and I wouldn't be too bothered if they kick the bucket and they lose everything). My problem then becomes two-fold. I understand that my BIOS settings not being saved is a CMOS battery issue and needs to be replaced, however in this particular board, the battery is heat shrinked into a plastic cover, when I cut the cover off, the battery connectors have been like soldered onto them and I'm not sure how to replace the battery, therefore does anyone know how to replace the battery on this motherboard. I have attached photos of CMOS battery. I have submitted an RMA to see if they can change the battery. Then my booting issues, why do I have to press the reset button to get it to post, why do I boot cycle and it shuts itself off randomly after it has posted, and why is my computer just being dank really lol. Would love to hear any suggestions or if anyone has had these problems before. Thank you

Hello, so I wanted to enable 4G encoding so I could enable AMD Smart Memory. In order to do this I was under the impression that I first had to disable CSM. I did all this then saved and exited the BIOS however I now have no display. I have taken out the CMOS battery and have also jumped the CLR_CMOS pins yet still nothing, is there anything else I can try. (This has happened once before and it worked after removing the CMOS battery) cheers all.

Hi, I really hope someone here can assist with this as I have tried various things and my knowledge has hit a wall and I have reached the limits of my experience. I scoured the internet for fixes to my problem but was unsuccessful which is why I am making this thread as a last cry for help. I will list below the things I have attempted to do in order to fix this so far and at the end, I will list my specs. First I will describe a short timeline of what led to this happening. This is a brand new PC that I assembled this month, all the parts are brand new excluding the CPU, RAM and a couple of HDDs I use for storage, along with 1 m2 SSD nvme. The pc was working fine until yesterday where it could not boot from sleep mode. I have not used sleep on this PC before this instance and upon returning home after a few hours I pressed buttons on the keyboard, the PC lit up as normal however there was nothing on the display, I then suspected a monitor issue/cable, more on this in a bit. I have also acquired a new nvme v2 m2 SSD 2TB that I installed windows 10 on prior to this and the most recent addition was a RAM stick of 16gb 3200mhz ddr memory. The PC worked fine and recognized the RAM and there were no issue with the boot or anything. I also overclocked my CPU prior to this slightly and there were again, no issues. Now on to where the problems began. After attempting to wake the PC up from sleep mode, it was giving no display, the monitor simply had no signal going into it, no backlight or mouse showing, nothing. I tried hitting the restart button, and same thing, no matter what I did, the display simply would not turn on. I then started to troubleshoot the monitor and hdmi cable. I tried swapping the cable, and the same result happened. I tried unplugging the hdmi and plugging in my other monitor into the motherboard graphics via DVI just in case, still nothing. Once I restarted the BIOS by removing the CMOS and shorting the pins, did the computer display light up and gave the 'press f1 to enter settings' message, this is so far the only instance where anything happens display wise. This made me rule out the possibility of any monitor or cable faults as it is clearly working, the issue lies somewhere deeper. Once I am in the bios after pressing F2, I am able to update it, change settings and so on, but no matter what I do, once I press save and exit I will boot into a blank screen again. This also applied by trying to override boot into the windows from boot menu. A quick rundown of the fixes attempted from here onwards: Removed the new RAM stick and tried turning the pc on Left only 1 RAM stick and tried turning the pc on Updated BIOS successfully (2806 version) Reversed update to 2083 version as the update produced the same result Reset BIOS to default (already accomplished by resetting bios and updating it but still) disconnect all usb devices disconnect HDDs from MB replaced the CMOS battery reconnected front panel switches again And that's everything I can think of so far, again these are brand new parts and I highly doubt that this is a PSU issue. It just doesn't make sense that the only response I get is upon a CMOS reset. I have also read that ram voltage could affect it but I have already tried running with only 1 stick. I have 3 RAM sticks 2x 8GB running at 1.2V and 1x 16GB new stick I just got which has 1.35V. The auto BIOS setting sets this at 1.2V seemingly, however I have tried running it with one of the 8gb sticks already alone in different slots. (don't think I've tried all 4 slots yet but they are recognized in the BIOS no matter what RAM configuration I try. PC specs: CPU - Ryzen 5 1600 GPU - RTX 3060 zotac RAM - 32GB DDR4 (2x 8 sticks and 1x 16gb stick) 2x8 2400 MHz and the 16gb states 3200mhz but in BIOS it actually runs in 2133Mhz for some reason Storage: 2x HDD (storage and the other still has old windows installed in 1 partition) 2x M.2 SSD nvme (1 windows) OS - Windows 10 64 bit PRO PSU - 750w cooler master bronze Motherboard: ASUS Prime B550-A Any help would be greatly appreciated bros, if I think of anything else I will update the main post. UPDATE!!!! GUYS I think I have narrowed down the issue, it might be related to the GPU firmware for displayID that nvidia made a tool for, it affects two series of cards in the 30xx series, namely the 3080ti and the 3060 (which I have). However my problem is I do not have a spare PC to replace the GPU and update this using the tool, is there any way to do it via another method? Jayztwocents made a video about this on youtube, however I initially thought it does not apply to my case since I do not even have an option for primary graphics in my bios, so no way to check if it is defaulting to cpu or gpu or whatever. But the symptoms I have read others faced leads me to believe that it might be this. UPDATE 2: I WAS ABLE TO GET INTO WINDOWS on my old boot from the HDD, this eliminates a hardware fail, now I just wonder what was causing the issue. I did copy/paste most of my files from the appdata folder and some other documents from my original C drive into the new one not sure if that caused the issue, I will now reinstall windows on my ssd UPDATE 3: NEW PROBLEM Upon making a bootable USB windows installation media and formatting the ssd with the windows installation, the pc still wont boot to usb when placing it at the top of the boot order. I managed to get into it by overriding the boot in the bios however once the PC restarts after windows gets ready I am once again left with a black screen. Thus unable to complete the installation. UPDATE 4: I was able to get bios to boot every time without the necessity of removing the cmos battery or shorting the jumpers every time by flashing the bios to an older version specificallhy 2403 due to seemingly compatibility issues with my 1st gen ryzen (1000s series) . However now I am facing a new issue, when trying to install windows I boot into usb withiut issues, start the installation and upon step 2 completion whereby windows must restart itself to finish the installation it boots into a black screen again this time with the backlight ON (so no video input problem like before). Any fixes to this would be greatly appreciated.

I've got a gigabyte AB350M-HD3 paired with a Ryzen 5 3600 with 8x2 16gb kit of 3600mhz Corsair vengeance RGB pro. (don't think the mobo supports 3600 so I'm at 3200) I've tried changing the CMOS by switching off the power putting the new battery in and leaving it for a few minutes and shorting the pins yet it still resets the bios after I switch the plug off

Hi, Resently bought Msi gaming plus b550 motherboard, and i flashed newest bios on it for it to support my ryzen 9 5900x. My windows boots normally but i cant get to bios screen, when i spam f1,esc,delete, or any other fkeys. I tried windows restart to bios also, pc turns on and i stuck on black screen Mayby it goes to bios but it wont give display? I tried: - 3 different bios versions - resetting cmos - using different ram sticks - plugging different displays and to different slots. - unplugging all unnecessary stuff -and lots of other stuff Any suggestions? Otherwise windows works fine

My pc bios setting are not saved!!!! My clock is fine!!! I changed the cmos battery!!! but still same problem!!! though my pc is running welll!!

Okay so, I have tried everything I can think of. But the memory I have in slots a_1 a_2 will light up but won’t detect in the bios. I switched around all 4 sticks. I cleared the cmos. I pulled the cmos battery out and let it sit for 10 min. I just left two sticks in the aforementioned slots and got a memory (yellow light) error. I don’t know what else to try or do. Let me know if you can think of anything. My pc specs are broken down in my profile. If you need more info please ask. It will boot into windows but only in single channel with, (half of 32gb), 16gb.

So I changed the cmos battery and now it won’t boot into windows it just goes to the bios and when I check boot priority it shows nothing in it and when I go to advanced mode and storage config it shows my 1TB hard drive, did I do something wrong or did I fudge up, please help

Hi everyone. I have an Asus H81 board I'm using for my home server/NAS that has a strange issue. Often when I power the system off, it won't start again. Power button does nothing. The only recourse seems to be to shut off the PSU and wait at least a few hours (I usually just leave it overnight) then I can power it back on. Sometimes when it powers off this doesn't happen, and it turns right back on. Seems random. I think it might be a CMOS battery related issue, because when it does start again after the PSU has been off, the BIOS has been fully reset. But I replaced the battery and that didn't change anything. Anyone know what this issue is, or if it's fixable? Thanks!

hi, im using a Asus Strix z270E Mobo, In all cases ths powercable was unplugged from the power supply itself and was switched off for good mesure I tried shorting the header, didnt work i removed the battery, didnt work I removed the battery and shorted the header i Shorted teh + and - on thr battery connecter for onr min i left the batery removed fro 30 minuites, no luck. please help :(

hi this is the motherboard of my tablet please can anyone tell me which chip is the cmos/bios

Right, So I messed with the voltage on my CPU via the BIOS (as per the instructions of an intel technician) and to my shock and awe, the computer no longer works. When the power button is pressed, the computer lights up, however the peripherals do not! Furthermore, the fully functioning monitor does not detect an output. I've checked the monitor and all my peripherals on another device, they all work. It would very much appear that my messing with the CPU voltage has done one of two things; Fried the CPU, although I think it is unlikely (I may be wrong) Or The BIOS is no longer stable. (this is my assumption). For this reason, if anyone can help me reset the BIOS using some kind of hardware, preferably, but not exclusively without a jumper cap. Thanks from London, LTT guys.