So this just started happening out of the blue.
Boot up one day and it just seems to hang on the Award Bios screen.
I then reset the CMOS jumper and tried to get it to boot that way, it rebooted itself twice and then on the third try, it again, hung on the Gigabyte post screen. I tried hitting DEL to get into the BIOS, but it didn't seem like it was responding. At this point, I stepped away from my computer leaving it to sit on the post screen, to use the bathroom or something, and when i came back, it had gotten into the BIOS. Everything had reset itself to the default values (I had previously OC'd the CPU), so I save and exit and reboot. It does the same thing, seemingly hanging on the post screen, but I leave it and see what happens, after about 5 minutes the machine boots to the desktop. I do what I need to do and then reboot to see what happens. Same thing, hangs on post screen, it does boot, but this time I get a CMOS checksum error and I get a screen asking to select a BIOS profile, I select LAST KNOWN GOOD and it restarts and does the same thing, post screen > hang >boot. Sometimes i'll get the checksum error and other times it will get me to the desktop. A few times i get a BSOD while on desktop so I pulled out 3 sticks of RAM (i have 4 totalling 8gb) and I started testing the RAM thinking it were RAM errors or something, but all sticks look good. Which brings me here, what can this be?
Reading some other threads on here, the culprit may be the CMOS battery, i'm going to pick one up after work today and see what happens.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, sorry for the long post.
Specs are also below:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]GIGABYTE GA-EX38-DS4
Q6600 2.4ghz OC'd to 3.0ghz running stable at that for 3 years.
8gb RAM= 4x 2gb Crucial Ballistix
5HD's of varying make, Win7 64-bit OS sitting on Vertex2 SSD
ATI HD 6950 2gb
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Boot up one day and it just seems to hang on the Award Bios screen.
I then reset the CMOS jumper and tried to get it to boot that way, it rebooted itself twice and then on the third try, it again, hung on the Gigabyte post screen. I tried hitting DEL to get into the BIOS, but it didn't seem like it was responding. At this point, I stepped away from my computer leaving it to sit on the post screen, to use the bathroom or something, and when i came back, it had gotten into the BIOS. Everything had reset itself to the default values (I had previously OC'd the CPU), so I save and exit and reboot. It does the same thing, seemingly hanging on the post screen, but I leave it and see what happens, after about 5 minutes the machine boots to the desktop. I do what I need to do and then reboot to see what happens. Same thing, hangs on post screen, it does boot, but this time I get a CMOS checksum error and I get a screen asking to select a BIOS profile, I select LAST KNOWN GOOD and it restarts and does the same thing, post screen > hang >boot. Sometimes i'll get the checksum error and other times it will get me to the desktop. A few times i get a BSOD while on desktop so I pulled out 3 sticks of RAM (i have 4 totalling 8gb) and I started testing the RAM thinking it were RAM errors or something, but all sticks look good. Which brings me here, what can this be?
Reading some other threads on here, the culprit may be the CMOS battery, i'm going to pick one up after work today and see what happens.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, sorry for the long post.
Specs are also below:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]GIGABYTE GA-EX38-DS4
Q6600 2.4ghz OC'd to 3.0ghz running stable at that for 3 years.
8gb RAM= 4x 2gb Crucial Ballistix
5HD's of varying make, Win7 64-bit OS sitting on Vertex2 SSD
ATI HD 6950 2gb
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