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Should I try resetting the bios by removing CMOS battery? Or will that not help since he cant even get to BIOS?

Friend ran driver booster on his PC that he recently installed fresh windows to. During a required restart the system turned itself back on and then quickly (5 seconds with no beeping) turned itself back off again. Now it does this every time you try to turn it on. Cant get to BIOS and...

Tried this with a old dell monitor I found and still no input. My new MB/CPU/RAM arrive tomorrow so hopefully that stuff fixes the issue.

Cannot get to bios with drives disconnected. Monitor still saying "no input" from both HDMI and RGB motherboard connections. I wish I had another monitor to try but never had an issue like this before with it in 4 years... I am about to order another motherboard/CPU. IS there anything else I...

Now that you mention it I have been having issues with folders opening very slowly on the SSD for a few months now. SSD is probably 4 years old.

Was playing Modern Warfare last night on gaming desktop when the screen suddenly froze. Restarted and monitor said "No input" (Display Port connection). -Tried GPU HDMI connection to Monitor = No Input -Removed GPU and plugged VGA from MB into Monitor = No Input -Tried DVI from MB to Monitor =...

After doing a little more research I am thinking that when i flashed my BIOS (when i was setting up this install) I did so incorrectly and did not properly update to uefi. Guess I am going to have to flash again.

SO I am taking some basic Comptia hardware courses and am learning about boot processes. Went into my Win10 desktop system and ran admin cmd bcdedit Under my C: partition I am seeing system32\winload.exe I was EXPECTING to find .efi here since I am using a BIOS with a GUI ect. Did the same...