[SOLVED] PC Shuts down after formatting and/or Bios battery removal.

[firatkonuslu]

I have a problem and this place seems my last hope. Let me describe the issue and how an idiot I am: Shortly,
PC Shuts down after formatting and Bios battery removal.
If you want to know why I removed the battery I explain it below, if you want you can skip that part*

I formatted my pc and made a clean windows 7 ultimate install.
During the installation I made a mistake. You know you start the installation, and it reboots after installation, and in order to prevent the looping (I mean since the pc reboots continously from usb the installation starts again.) I entered bios and wanted to select the ssd in which windows is installed. But the ssd was not available in the options to select, I assumed that it was a bios setting mistake, after a few searches I decided to remove the bios battery in order to manually reset the settings. After that nothing changed (Here comes the stupidity) I realized that I was selecting all the time the wrong drive to boot that was the reason why the installation didn´t continue. So, having realized this I selected the correct drive and finished the installation.


*Yes, you may continue from here. Having finished the windows installation and setting, I Installed the display driver and Chrome, registered my license key of windows. Then shut the pc down, next time while I was trying to open it started to shut down after a few minutes. I tried literally everything. I suspected from an hardware issue after the bios reset, therefore I started to remove every hardware part one by one. First, my GPU, then the hard drives, then the memories... Nothing changed. Lastly, I tried to make a clean reinstall but wasn't able to do it as the computer shut down again.

What might be the issue. Did I accidently damage my motherboard? The battery? Should I wait longer to insert the bios battery (I waited approximately 15 seconds) During the removal of the battery I had to remove the GPU, did I damage it? May be the power supply although I didn't do anything related to it. Please help. My livelihood depends on this PC, I have many photography and video work to finish and now I have nothing to do.

My pc parts:
PC Shuts down after formatting and Bios battery removal.
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[geofelt]

I doubt any damage.
The purpose of the cr2032 battery is to hold any bios settings if the motherboard should lose power.
Normally, a pc, even when shut down will retain trickle power to the motherboard.
That is why the batteries seem to last forever.

By removing the battery, you essentially reset the bios to it's default state.
Nothing bad about that. put it back in.

Disparate sticks of ram can cause a problem.
I suspect that is what is going on here.
I suggest you remove the 4gb stick and run memtest86 on the remaining 2 x 4gb kit.
You should be able to complete a full pass with NO errors.

Remove other hard drives and ssd, leaving only the ssd to which windows will be installed connected.
If you do not, windows will put some hidden recovery partitions on other drives making it all but impossible to boot without them.
Reinstall windows on the desired ssd.
Windows will restart several times, but you need do nothing during the process.

When all is done, you can reattach the other drives.
If they have unwanted folders or partitions, you can delete them.

 

[firatkonuslu]

Not being totally sure yet, I guess I figured out the problem and solution. It was the cpu fan. It was full of dust and having opened the chasis I decided to clean it but it seems I wasn't able to do this, and even worsened the situation. Just randomly checked my cpu temperature while I was looking a possible setting to be wrong in the bios and saw 90 celicius and then "ahaa this might be the problem" I thought and decided to remove the fan and make a proper cleaning. Then it reduced to 40-60 degrees and works now fine. It didn't shut down the last 30 minutes. As a result I decided to buy a better cpu fani although the existing one still works. Let's see, but the problem seems to be solved.