Problems after CMOS Reset

tjsniper

Hey everyone,

I made some changes to my BIOS, and after I rebooted I got a blank screen. So I opened up the computer and took out the CMOS battery for 10 mins to reset it.

It showed the "Press del to enter setup" screen, then moved onto the "Boot from CD" screen, but it seemed to only check for a CD, and not a hard drive.

I tried to enter the BIOS setup by pressing del at the start, as I figured the boot order was messed up, but I got a blank screen everytime I pressed del (yes, I'm sure its del to enter setup on this mobo).

I tried resetting the CMOS again, and no luck. Is my BIOS corrupt? What do I need to do to fix this?

Thanks for helping me guys. Its very important I get this fixed ASAP (atleast by the end of the day!).

RogerThis

Try unplugging the power cable, and the press the power button on the front of the PC. The will flush all remaining power from the system. Then plug the power cable back and power up the computer again.
Go into bios again, and give it at least 5 minutes to work. It can be slow sometimes entering the bios.

tjsniper

RogerThis wrote: »

Try unplugging the power cable, and the press the power button on the front of the PC. The will flush all remaining power from the system. Then plug the power cable back and power up the computer again.
Go into bios again, and give it at least 5 minutes to work. It can be slow sometimes entering the bios.

Just flushed all of the power out and I'm leaving it load the BIOS setup for about 5-10mins. I'll let you guys know if this works.

Thanks for helping, RogerThis.

EDIT: Left it loading for just over 6 mins, no luck...

RogerThis

How many hard drives are attached?
How many optical drives are attached?

Is it sata or ide?

Is it possible to test the hard drive in another PC?

tjsniper

RogerThis wrote: »

How many hard drives are attached?

1.

RogerThis wrote: »

How many optical drives are attached?

1.

RogerThis wrote: »

Is it sata or ide?

It's SATA.

RogerThis wrote: »

Is it possible to test the hard drive in another PC?

Not for atleast another 3 weeks when I get back home, but I really need this by the end of the day. While I can't test it to prove it, I know that the hard drive isn't the problem. Anyways, even if it was, I still need to be able to access the BIOS setup screen.

My main concern is the inability to access the BIOS setup, I'm not too bothered about it being unable to boot right now. I need to worry about that later.

RogerThis

Try disconnecting the drives and every thing else eg. pci cards only leaving the video and keyboard attached. And try the bios again.

tjsniper

RogerThis wrote: »

Try disconnecting the drives and every thing else eg. pci cards only leaving the video and keyboard attached. And try the bios again.

Ok, I just unplugged the hard drive, optical drive, printer and Wifi.

I then removed the CMOS battery, and pushed in the button on motherboard to discharge it.

I then put back the CMOS battery after 3 mins, and guess what? BIOS setup appeared.

Now I'm just praying that removing CMOS battery + discharge done the trick, and hoping that nothing is broken, as this isn't my computer and I'm broke at the moment, so buying the owner new parts is out of the question.

tjsniper

Ok, just reconnected the SATA drive on its own and got around 10 short beeps at startup, then an error saying "floppy disks failed" (it has no floppy disk), then briefly some message about setting up linux partitions (it runs XP! why does it show that) then walla! boot up!

So, what does around 10 short beeps mean?

Any by the way, thanks so much for helping!

tjsniper

Ok, so I connected up the optical drive, and the 10 short beeps went away.

I set floppy to "not installed" in the BIOS, and that removed that message.

Now for the final one. Briefly, before boot, a message appears with white writing on top with the word creation distinctly in it. In the middle there is yellow text with the words "If you are installing _____(to fast to read) Linux partitions". How do I get rid of this?

RogerThis

The linux thing would have something to do with raid in the bios. Maybe you could disable raid, or something like that. Raid is for the hard drives, so it will be in the bios, somewhere around the hard drive configuration.