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aero36
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Hey! Been having issues during boot up for awhile and haven’t been able to get it work properly.

 

Whenever I turn on my computer from full off (so from the switch on the case being off, if I leave the switch on and turn off and on from the button this doesn’t happen) the GPU/mobo go off and on 3sh times before booting to this error screen:

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I press F1, go to BIOS, and then F10 out and I go to my PC.

 

What I have tried so far:

1. I updated my BIOS

2. I replaced the CMOS battery

 

Any ideas?

 

Not sure if it makes a difference, but this light comes on as well:

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12 minutes ago, aero36 said:

What I have tried so far:

1. I updated my BIOS

2. I replaced the CMOS battery

CMOS batteries are not rechargable.  That seems odd, but they are only used when the system power supply is off.

 

Do you usually switch off power at a power strip or unplug the pc?  It seems if the cmos battery were drained, it will lose date and time as well.  The other cmos battery may be just fine, so keep one spare.

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7 minutes ago, aero36 said:

the GPU/mobo go off and on 3sh times before booting to this error screen:

If your system fails to POST 3 or more times in row your mobo will reset bios to defaults and you'll get the post screen shown., This is usually caused by unstable hardware when booting the computer.

 

Usually culprit is either

  •  unstable cpu overclock
  • unstable cpu undervolt
  • unstable ram clock speed/timings (ensure you are using xmp profile)

The green light should indicate motherboard has passed POST check and proceed to boot to windows.

The motherboards manual should state what the lights indicate. Usually Red for fail, amber for testing, and green for pass. There usually is a coloured led for CPU, RAM and VGA.

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2 minutes ago, E-waste said:

CMOS batteries are not rechargable.  That seems odd, but they are only used when the system power supply is off.

 

Do you usually switch off power at a power strip or unplug the pc?  It seems if the cmos battery were drained, it will lose date and time as well.  The other cmos battery may be just fine, so keep one spare.

I don't usually switch off at the power strip, just the switch on the tower itself. When I reboot the time/date starts around the time I last turned off, and then corrects after a moment.

1 minute ago, C2dan88 said:

If your system fails to POST 3 or more times in row your mobo will reset bios to defaults and you'll get the post screen shown., This is usually caused by unstable hardware when booting the computer.

 

Usually culprit is either

  •  unstable cpu overclock
  • unstable cpu undervolt
  • unstable ram clock speed/timings (ensure you are using xmp profile)

The green light should indicate motherboard has passed POST check and proceed to boot to windows.

The motherboards manual should state what the lights indicate. Usually Red for fail, amber for testing, and green for pass. There usually is a coloured led for CPU, RAM and VGA.

I don't overclock, and I'll have to look up what Undervolt is. I did see an XMP setting in bios, I'll look into it and see if that helps. I probably should have checked the manual lol, I'll do that next.

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