I believe I might need a harddrive

Since I just upgraded the processor a few months ago. I guess I have to get another AMD board.
 
Bobsama said:
The other 10% was probably bad RAM and a bad motherboard. Usually a bad CMOS battery just means that your clock resets or settings aren't saved.
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True, I've seen some boards become upresponsive due to dead battery. However, I'm a hands on person. It's hard for me to Diagnose issues from the 3rd person.
 
I just put a new battery in and I still have a blank screen when I turn it on. I tested the RAM and all four sticks are fine. So that would mean I need a new MB.
 
Yup, that's what I thought from the start. That always sucks ass, sorry to hear that.
 
Erik, what socket is is your AMD chip? I have a Asus ROG crosshair II AM2+ that will free to have as soon as asus P77 Sabertooth comes available to purchase.

Even better deal, I'll offer to sell you the Corsair H100 Hydro CPU cooler for $90($120 new) and throw in the ROG board, Phenom I, 4GB match set for free. The H100 has only been used 3 months, I'm going to upgrade to full water cooled kit for the 680 Hydro copper edition.
 
I have the ASUS Crosshair 4. I thought that it was the MB but I hoping for a less work time to replace like the HD and the GPU. The upside about replacing the MB is that I can upgrade CPU later. On the board I have now I have the max this thing can handle a 1100T AM3 X6.
 
They had a used Crossfire V for $175. When I decided to bundle it was cheaper to bundle it with a new board by a four dollar differance.
 
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!!! Well it's not the fucking motherboard or the damn processor or the battery or even the PSU.
 
I wasted money on a new PSU, a new CPU and a new MB. None of those were the problem(s). Took all of the RAM out and turned it on. Still darkness.
 
Machine shouldn't boot without atleast one stick of ram in it anyways. Been a pretty long time since you could boot without.

I mean you know the drill by now but ill list it anyways. Power supply, Motherboard, processor, one stick of ram in the first slot. With only that until you can get to the bios there is something wrong. Nothing else is needed. Once your at that point you can add the hard drive and the rest of the ram back in until failure occurs again.

EDIT - Well video card as well if there is no internal.
 
It hasn't booted to the BIOS since the beginning of this thread. I took out and used each stick of RAM one stick at time to see if it will boot to BIOS. I still can't boot to BIOS no matter what stick is in. Don't tell me all for sticks are fucked up.
 
ErikStenger said:
It hasn't booted to the BIOS since the beginning of this thread. I took out and used each stick of RAM one stick at time to see if it will boot to BIOS. I still can't boot to BIOS no matter what stick is in. Don't tell me all for sticks are fucked up.
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Can't be sure but i doubt it. You would figure one would be good enough for the machine to boot but cant be sure.

I havent followed for awhile but the video card has been tested in another machine and found to be working?
 
ErikStenger said:
I used a older video card in it and it still doesn't boot to BIOS.
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Alright well trusting that the older video card is good and with everything but the ram being replaced and the unlikely hood every stick is screwed beyond atleast booting.... I don't know what to tell you lol.

New board and cpu shouldn't be any issues but just in case carefully blow the socket out with compressed air a piece of dust can reek havok. Though on AM3 that shouldn't be an issue like it is on 775+ intel.
 
Also and I know this sounds like a noob mistake but make sure the cmos jumper is in the right position!
 
The reason I know the video card is still good is that I using it before I forced upgrade to play BF3 on good to great setting instead of on low or very low.
 
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