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If the computer hadn't been used for four months, what are the chances that his CMOS wafer-battery is dead? At minimum in those circumstances, the CMOS wouldn't hold his configuration BIOS settings . . . .
Isn't that the non-k version? I don't think it's possibly to OC a non K version, only with turbo you can. He'd still get like 4ghz+ with turbo on I think.Nice CPU owens... man that thing is begging to be OCed to 5Ghz. Why such a soft OC. gl
But that battery wouldn't keep it from booting. It would just lose and changes from default settings, including date/time.
Well -- I did a quick scan of the OP and additional posts, and I might have missed something. But he never specified his BIOS settings. If SATA configuration had been other than default, a bad battery would cause settings to change, and the system might not boot.
Just recently, I resurrected an LGA-775 motherboard from my parts locker that had only been used for maybe three months. But it had sat in storage for the last five years. As I put the parts together -- RAM, HDDs etc. -- I'd go into BIOS and methodically configure the settings, then save them and shut down the system. On next boot-up, the default settings were still there. Replacing the battery solved the problem.
c) make sure the on/off switch on the back of the power supply is On.
Come back to report after those 3 are all set.