Rookie Needs Help, Please?

[HansGroenewold]

Hello,

I need help. After starting a thread here regarding a video card recommendation and feeling frisky, I played around with my BIOS settings and screwed something up, big time. As soon as I made the change, the PC promptly shut down, nothing. When I try to start it up, no screen whatsoever comes up to allow me back into the BIOS to change the setting back. Fortunately, I know what setting I changed. I went into this setting:

Freq. Volt. Control, the next section reads:

CPU Host/SDRAM/PCI Clock, the choices for that are:

default (currently selected)
100/100/33 MHZ
100./133/33 MHZ
100/166/33 MHZ
105/140/35 MHZ
108/144/36 MHZ
112/140/31 MHZ
100/200/33 MHZ
133/100/33 MHZ
133/133/33 MHZ
133/166/33 MHZ *************************************
133/160/33 MHZ


The original setting was on default. Like a fool, I went and changed it to the setting with the asterisks next to it. I don't have a rescue disk either. How can I get into the BIOS when I can't even get a screen to come up? I pressed F8 trying to get it to come up in Safe Mode and that didn't work. I also tried Holding "delete" as it tried to boot, no luck there either.

Any help would be deeply appreciated. I opened up the case and the CPU fan and video card fan still work, so I guess I didn't fry anything. Thank you. I also posted this in the Technical Support forum as well. Please help, I'm desperate as you can probably tell. Lesson learned, don't dabble or make adjustments in settings you're not comfortable or familiar with.

Sincerely,

Hans Groenewold

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[Rage187]

remove the cmos battery for a few seconds.

also: sometimes near the cmos battery is a jumper.

 

[BeTomXXX]

Or try reseting a few times 5x (have a few seconds of interval between the resets). some mainboards reset the bios to its default by doing this.

 

[HansGroenewold]

Hello,

Thanks for your help. I forgot to mention that it was an ECS Elitegroup L4S5M motherboard about three years old.

Sincerely,
Hans Groenewold

 

[Rage187]

as noted, remove the cmos battery for like 10-15secs.

It will automatically reset your bios back to defaults.

Its silver, about the size of a nikkel.

 

[HansGroenewold]

Thanks for helping me, I think I got it resolved. Will know when I get it home to check, I did as you suggested. You guys are great, thanks again.

Sincerely,
Hans Groenewold

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Rage187
as noted, remove the cmos battery for like 10-15secs.

It will automatically reset your bios back to defaults.

Its silver, about the size of a nikkel.

Dont forget to unplug your A/C power as well before you remove the CMOS battery.

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Rage187
as noted, remove the cmos battery for like 10-15secs.

It will automatically reset your bios back to defaults.

Its silver, about the size of a nikkel.

Dont forget to unplug your A/C power as well before you remove the CMOS battery.

I would hope that would be self explanatory, but you never know.



Kids: whenever you work on your computer, unlug it.

 

[HansGroenewold]

After that idiotic incident, I can see why you advised me to unplug the PC.

Sincerely,
Hans Groenewold

 

[Delorian]

Originally posted by: Rage187

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Rage187
as noted, remove the cmos battery for like 10-15secs.

It will automatically reset your bios back to defaults.

Its silver, about the size of a nikkel.

Dont forget to unplug your A/C power as well before you remove the CMOS battery.

I would hope that would be self explanatory, but you never know.



Kids: whenever you work on your computer, unlug it.

I've done that so many times in a rush though, worried my precious parts had fried from bad settings/heat etc. I always seem to forget the battery is only pertinent when the mainboard is unplugged:roll:

 

[Rage187]

I usually just hit the power switch on the back of the PSU.

 

[Delorian]

Originally posted by: Rage187
I usually just hit the power switch on the back of the PSU.

Yeah, that'll work too