Recent content by motherofboard

Thanks for your response misgar. As I've said though have sorted it now. (See last post). Nice tips, although I did say that I'd removed the CMOS batteries (see post), and I'd been through the BIOS (see post), but you know, communication is a good thing! I hold my hands up, a didn't realise a...

Amazing. 3 days of stress and then giving up and writing this post and voila.. I realised I hadn't swapped out the Ram during tests. Somehow, someway, the Ram was to blame. Took the 2x8GB ram out, swapped it with the 4GB and it works perfectly. Man alive. Computers.. should we ever dare 😭

I know 'monitor stuck in standby' is a widely questioned topic but please assess my individual situation: I have 2 near identical basic systems that I built many years ago. System 1 is an ASRock Phenom2 N68-VS3 FX motherboard, running an AMD FX-6100 processor, through a Dell monitor. Ram is Dual...