Urgent help please!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by gps08, Nov 12, 2015.

  1. gps08

    gps08 Private First Class

    Hi,

    I removed my CMOS battery to reset it. Now, when I turn my PC on, the screen is black... I can quickly see my computer starting up in the screen with my bios splash screen where it shows the options for bios menu and boot options, then the screen turns black right before showing my mouse cursor.

    I never get to see windows load screen...

    What's going on here?
     
  2. DOA

    DOA MG's Loki

    First off, when posting here a useful title helps us volunteers sort the issues we can help with.
    Make sure the polarity is right on the battery, they are easy to flip.
    I think you need to get into your BIOS. Usually booting and immediately hitting the delete or F2 key will get you there. When you reset your BIOS you probably lost your video and boot settings, look there for starters.
    Post your hardware info if the above does not help.
     
  3. gps08

    gps08 Private First Class

    The battery is well put. The reason I reset through removing the battery is because I got a black screen when accessing my bios.

    AMD FX black edition
    Gigabyte 990 UD3
    Radeon R9 270 OC Edition
    Corsair Vengeance 2x 8GB
    4TB HDD
    Screen is a flat screen TV Bush connected via HDMI
     
  4. gps08

    gps08 Private First Class

    Things I forgot to mention:
    PSU 700W

    I had a bootable USB drive on my PC, it was causing a black screen (when pressing either f9 or f12) and would not boot my USB drive. If doing nothing it would just load windows normally. So after researching I was lead to believe that by resetting the CMOS battery would somehow make it work.

    I was wrong. What happened next I described above.

    I have tried using another screen but it was a tv as well and hdmi. But with no avail... MB doesn't seem to have an onboard GPU.

    I really need this fixed as I have deadlines to finish D:
     
  5. gps08

    gps08 Private First Class

    After banging my head over and over again, I've finally resolved the issue.

    I had started by trying to use my other TV to see if it worked, but as I said before with no avail.

    Then I re-opened my case, re-seated my GPU and tried again on my screen and nothing, neither did putting my WIN7 dvd in did anything but delay the BIOS splash screen to then going in black screen.

    I disconnected everything but my mouse, keyboard and HMDI and still nothing.

    But for some reason, when I switched back to my alternate TV that I had previously failed with, it started working, showing me my BIOS straight away without me pressing any buttons.
    Once I got access to my BIOS I just loaded optimal settings, save and exit and it loaded Windows with no issues. Then I just turned it back off, switched back to my main screen and turn it back on and it's working.
     

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