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Rookie Needs Help, Please?

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HansGroenewold

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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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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.
 
Hello,

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

Sincerely,
Hans Groenewold
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
Click to expand...

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

 
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.
Click to expand...

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



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



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

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



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



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

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:
 
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