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Old February 1st, 2009, 02:12 AM
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Well it didn't take but a year and one month for my Prized cyberpower, inc PC to crap out and die.

I don't know what the hell happened. It was working properly last night. Put it to hybernate and today when I started it up, I got no video to the monitor. I waited 10 minutes but nothing so I reset. It sounded as if it posted but then nothing else happened. No post data was displayed. I swapped out monitors, tried a restart. Nothing. Shut the system off, unplugged it. Restarted nothing. Shut the system off, unplugged it, and disconnected the second EVGA G-Force 8800 GT card. Again nothing. Swapped out the video cards, again nothing.

The green light is on on the mother board which is a ASUS AI Lifestyle P5N32-E-SLI.

I get no buzz's, alarms, or other indication that their is a problem.

What do you guys think it could be? My bet is the Mother Board since it won't send any signal to the monitor. Again is sounds like it is posting but I just cannot see it.

I am sick over this. If it were a hard drive failure, which I doubt, it would at least show me the post data.
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Old February 1st, 2009, 04:06 AM
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Default Re: PC Help Requested - Any ideas

The helpful people at FixYa pointed me into a fix. I had to pull the CMOS battery. So far the system is working, but for how long I do not know.
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Old February 1st, 2009, 05:14 AM
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Default Re: PC Help Requested - Any ideas

Glad to hear someone could help. I was completely in the dark for that!

Really helpful link too, BTW
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Old February 1st, 2009, 01:19 PM
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It should work for a few years til the new CMOS battery runs out of juice... They probably just shipped you a defective one, since they tend to last for far longer than 1 year.
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This sounds almost exctly like what's wrong with my 'good' machine... I hit the go button and it turns green but it I see nothing. Only thing is If I power cycle it on and off and then leave it on I sometimes get to see the post data... I've tried various configurations and replaced the power supply, I've pulled memory and see a different message but I'm not sure if that's what's wrong with it...
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Turn it on and pull the battery, check the cmos voltage. If it is below what's marked on it, there's your problem. That is a hard restart that you did. I would do a back up and then test the piss out of the hard drive. It really sounds like it couldn't load the monitor driver.
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Surely you meant to say "turn it off and pull the battery."
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Surely you meant to say "turn it off and pull the battery."
Nope, have it running. It will hold bios settings that way. Just stick a pencil magnet to it and pop the latch with a little screw driver. I've done hundreds that way, it wont hurt it.
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Default Re: PC Help Requested - Any ideas

I've never lost BIOS settings when replacing the CMOS battery. Perhaps all you need to do is just leave the power cord plugged in... There is a certain minimum power going through the motherboard, so long as you don't flip the kill switch on the PSU.
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Oh yeah forgot to mention, during a couple of the hard starts I managed to get into the bios settings, every other color was purple(usually they're all yellow) and some of them were messed up. But this was a couple months ago, it's been pretty much mothballed since about new years, unplugged with everything off, so if it was dying then it surely must be totally dead by now...
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