CMOS

Hi. I accidently typed the sleep command, something I never use but had not disabled. So the power led is flashing... Nothing would get it to exit sleep, so I removed the CMOS battery (tested 3.2 volts). An hour later it is still flashing. I then disconnect power from the power supply and...

I been overclocking a lot, getting whole bunch of errors. So if wanna make sure everything is intact or fully functional after those errors, meaning getting a relevantly “clean bios”, do I just flash the bios again or just do a cmos clear? Which one is more clean or let’s say more thorough. More...

There was a yellow kind of tape before, I took it off and I cannot reattach it and now the battery is loose. I'd need to put it on the motherboard so it would touch the circuit. Laptop is an Asus K50IN. (https://ibb.co/rFvSMrb if the image isn't loading)

I can only boot into Windows 11 if I have CSM (Legacy Boot) on, otherwise I get a hanging black screen. Also if I have CSM on - I can boot into BIOS, however iGPU is inaccessible! I would rather have a UEFI boot, but as stated, if I set it to that ¹I can't boot into Windows, and ²I can't...

Why is my motherboard light show up at night ? It does this more time at night when it's unplugged. I know there CMOS battery. But why is that just random?

Hello everyone. I have a Gigabyte X570 xtreme motherboard paired with 64gb of ram, RTX 2080ti, and an AMD 3950x CPU. I also have the latest BIOS version (F38) installed. Recently, I had some weird behavior with my motherboard that lead to the system doing random reboots and not posting...

I swapped my RX 6600 to my friend's 1070Ti, I forgot that I have enabled REBAR in the Bios beforehand for the SAM in AMD GPUs. Now that I plugged in the 1070Ti, it does not display. The 1070Ti was working fine in my friend's system btw. I tried removing the CMOS battery, but still no display...

I'm having woes with (I think) my Gigabyte Aorus x570 Xtreme (rev 1) motherboard. It's had weeks of not starting, with the q codes making no sense and sending me down false paths (and the manual has a lot of reserved codes but they are happening). At first I thought it was the gfx card but I...

Hello IT professionals, I recently was messing around in bios and now got myself a problem (not surprisingly). When I restarted my pc I got a message on screen for a split second saying something about "game boost" and then my display stopped working and remained black even after several...

I'm having the issue mention in this thread i created earlier https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/pc-wont-turn-on-after-a-lighting-strike-psu-able-to-jumpstart.3835290/ i try to remove the CMOS battery, since that the only thing i haven't try to unplug, after i plug it back in, my pc able...

specs: MSI MEG B550 Unify R5 5600x Aorus 1080ti Cougar GX 800w G.Skill Ripjaws V 32gb 3200 Q: I tried oc cpu and ram. After restart my pc wont boot, all coolers working but no image at all. Debug hex okay then start repeating 32-37 hex, ez degub led shows vga and boot. I’ve tried clearing...

Hi, i have an HP Pavilion 15-dk0xxx Gaming Laptop and I noticed that recently, that when i unplugged my laptop it shut itself off as soon as the warning to plug it for the battery instead of waiting for a minute before shutting itself off (which was the time it used to take before), so i knew...

My mobo is a asrock h61-m vs3 DDR3 mobo and won't bootup to the bios until I remove CMOS battery and pop it back in(sometimes even reset it using the jumper on the mobo). Also sometimes won't boot until both keyboard and mouse is plugged in. Seems like this occurs only when power is completely...

motherboard is : https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P61A-D3-rev-30#ov CPU : Core i7 2600 RAM : 16GB DDR3 This motherboard lost BIOS settings when power was disconnected. As you can see this motherboard has dual bios but I'm just using one OS. what i did to try and fix : change cmos...

TLDR: No Beep and No Video, most possible faulty parts are CPU, RAM, MOBO, PSU. Issue appeared after rearranging SSD and HDD SATA connectors, and reseating GPU. Please read full description for entire story and details. Thank you very much. I recently got an Acer Veriton M4620G, and a GTX 950...

Hi, my mobo -gigabyte z87x-ud3h. does clearing cmos deletes all saved profiles in bios?

So for some reason or other, my motherboard seems to not have a cmos battery present, does that mean that I'm unable to save bios settings at all, or does it mean they will be reset every time there is no power in the mobo?

Hello, everyone! I've been experiencing a peculiar and frustrating issue with my office PC lately and I'm at my wits' end trying to resolve it. PC config: AMD 3600xt (stock fan) Gigabyte B550 GAMING X V2 (rev. 1.0) motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 3200MHZ x3 [48GB in total)...

Just finished building my PC. When I had everything tucked away, I powered it on and made it to the BIOS screen. I powered it off, cleaned up the table a bit, plugged in my mouse, keyboard, and USB to update the BIOS, powered it on and now I get the amber VGA debug LED on the motherboard. All...

So recently my "I7-13700KF" processor was heating up a lot, especially here in my city which today is reaching 42°c, so I researched if there was any way to cool down my processor, the first topics that appeared were about Undervolting, so there I went to research about it and followed a...

A couple days ago I reset my pcs bios settings to default, now every time it boots there's no display. I take the CMOS battery out and put It back in and it boots fine, I have to do this every time I boot it, I imagine there's a bios setting I need to change but can't find anything.

Sometimes when I go to sleep I turn the PSU switch off overnight and when I go and turn the pc back on the next day the mobo will light up but the pc won’t power on for a few hours and when it does turn back on the clock will be like 6 hours behind. I don’t think it’s the PSU because it's only 3...

Any changes I make to the BIOS will stay until I shut the PSU off, after which all the settings will go back to default. This is a particular problem with my RAM speeds. I already replaced the CMOS battery and that fixed nothing (I forgot to unplug the PC when I did this, although the PSU...

I have a weird problem with my Dell OptiPlex 7080 Tower. Each time I power it off (unplug the power cable for like an hour or so), the BIOS resets every setting to default. E.g. it forgets every boot option (e.g. Windows Boot Manager, Ubuntu) my system has. I have to manually add those in order...

PC specs: MOBO: MSI B350 CPU: R5 5600 RAM: 2*8gb GPU: RTX 2060 Contex: Every time I go way for some days, I am used to disconnect the desktop from the power. I have never had problems, except the BIOS reset every time I recoconnect the pc to the power (probably due to discharged CMOS battery)...

Asus 2012 UEFI 16GBDDR3 Laptop N56V(z) Veracrypt version from april 2023 Win10 22H2 Pro Encrypted C Windows system partition, then deleted all partitions on disk, then in UEFI, removed Veracrypt in boot menu. It never booted since then. It is always black screen, 100% black, never any text of...

So, my friend was trying to play valorant and as he is on w11 he needs secureboot on and it wasn't working so I thought he should try enabling csm as I wasn't sure what it was but secure boot was enabled. After doing some research it seems like that was a bad idea as they are parallel settings...

Hi, I really hope someone here can assist with this as I have tried various things and my knowledge has hit a wall and I have reached the limits of my experience. I scoured the internet for fixes to my problem but was unsuccessful which is why I am making this thread as a last cry for help. I...

I turned on my PC after a very long time (3+ yrs). Its a Lenovo thinkcentre M58 and as the title says it doesnt wants to turn off normally. On shutdown, it beeps in the abovementioned order and then the fan keeps running forever. There is no HDD activity and no display output. I have to turn it...

I do a lot with computers, I just cant figure this issue out, its driving me nuts. SPECS: Processor: i7-3930k Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79s-up5 PSU: (new) EVGA 650W Bronze (previously had 500w chinese PSU) Memory: 16gb HyperX Fury Blue 1333Mhz (4x4) GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G STORY...

Monitor went into "Power Saving Mode" while I was sitting at the keyboard and actively using the PC. Shortly before the happened, there was screen flickering and going black - and it came back from that a few times; until it didn't anymore. After trying a couple things, I reset the CMOS and...

Good Days to you all! Thank you for taking your time to read this thread. I seem to have an issue with my computer. Recently black friday sales i got myself an Aorus x570s Pro Ax with Ryzen 9 5900x and I was updating and got the option of getting a free upgrade from windows 10 to 11 and i was...

Basically, my issue is, I'll be using my pc for a few weeks/months no problems at all, no signs of something being wrong with my system in the slightest. Then randomly one day I go to power my PC up like on any other day to come and find out it won't power on. My motherboard shows signs of life...

I'm using Ryzen 7 2700 along with B450 Aorus Elite motherboard. 16 Gb ram and Rtx 3060. The problem is pc getting into Boot loop after bios logo. I can access the Bios anytime but it gets reset all the time. So i cannot change and setting in Bios. I reset Cmos using the jumper snd changed Cmos...

Hi, Been trying to install windows 10 on my m.2 SSD instead of my regular 126gb SSD. After enabling secure boot in bios, it just gets stuck in a bootloop, the motherboard doesn't even power the keyboard. Have tried to CMOS clear it but with no luck. Been running the same setup almost 2 years...

Hello everybody, I hope you can provide some Insight into my newfound Problem. I recently changed my Case, since my old one started to break a bit (1 fan had a broken bearing and the others certainly werent in much better shape). After said change i first had the Issue mentioned in the Title...

Hello. I have a QDI Kudoz 7x/400a mobo and the CMOS seems to have some issues. Whenever I change any settings (I want to change boot order) and press F10 to save, the computer resets and after the boot logo only a flashing cursor at the top left corner shows up instead of the normal Detecting...

So I just upgraded from GTX 1060 to Asus RTX 2060 12 GB. As soon as I did it I played game for few mins. Everything was fine because I had enabled Vsync so that was capping at 60 fps. As soon as I disabled it to check how further it goes. After 5 mins game got crashed, closed and system got...

Good afternoon y'all, Specs: i7-11700k ASUS PRIME Z590-A Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 16GB MSI Ventus 2x RTX3070 WD blue NVME SSD Corsair CX750 PSU Windows 10 Recently built this computer for a friend, on build turned on XMP and UEFI compatibility mode in bios and let the remaining Asus...

Just purchased a new EVGA 3080 ti XC3 to replace my 2080. On boot: black screen (monitor says no input), fans and leds turn on, gpu not detected in device manager, vga light flashed on motherboard. Going back to old 2080 everything works fine. Other specs: Ryzen 7 3700x NZXT B550 motherboard...