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Hi guys! So i need a little help here....

So after installing Ai suite 3 (a software that comes with the asus maximus vi gene mobo), I pressed the "start optomize" button or something like that and then it loaded for a little and then asked to reboot the pc for it to function. So it did, but then my pc crashed, and landed me into and infinite restart, crash, pc repair, and restart again cycle. What is worse is that I had a cd in the cd drive and I can only eject a cd within the operating system, so I cannot insert the windows cd to reboot the pc that way. Is there anything else I can do? I'm really stuck. Help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
 
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Clear CMOS. There will be a jumper to short on your motherboard or you can remove the battery on the motherboard for about 15 minutes. Check your manual for the location of the jumper or you can just get a flashlight and check the board. It will be labeled CMOS and just be 2 pins usually.
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Clear CMOS. There will be a jumper to short on your motherboard or you can remove the battery on the motherboard for about 15 minutes. Check your manual for the location of the jumper or you can just get a flashlight and check the board. It will be labeled CMOS and just be 2 pins usually.
 
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I'm sorry but i do not understand. Where should I put the paper clip? My cd drive just has a slip where you insert the cd.
 
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Most optical drives have a tiny hole where you can insert something small like a paperclip if the drive dies so you can eject any media stuck in the drive. It will just look like a tiny hole. That will not fix your reboot loop though ;)
 
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So where will this small hole be located? MY cousin built my pc, and be did it in such a way that all you can access in the front of it is the slip for the cd. Is the hole on the side?
 
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No it's in the front under where the disk loads. A Windows disk will not help you though. A boot loop is hardware related and you need to clear CMOS to fix it. Clearing CMOS will default your BIOS to stock and hopefully fix whatever the overclock program screwed up.
 
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OOOOHHHHH, so this is a problem with the mobo, because if it is, then all I have to do is default to factory settings? But that doesnt make sense to me, because the program I installed (at least not to my knowledge) doesnt change mobo settings
 
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When you overclock a CPU or any part of you system what you are doing is making changes to the hardware. Using those automatic programs is not recommended just for the reasons you are encountering now. The safe way to overclock is through BIOS.

This is pretty basic stuff and you should really not be trying to overclock without at least knowing some basics ;)
But we all started somewhere!
 
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Thanks man for your help. But I ddont think I hit the overclock button. I think it was something to adjust the fan speed. But either way...yeah. But could the mobo settings really make my pc crash everytime it tries to boot up and make it go through auto recovery?
 
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Now wait. AI Suite is automatic overclocking and optimization software. Did you only adjust a fan profile or did you tell it to optimize the whole system? If you did a system wide optimization it tried to adjust something. If not clock speeds then voltages and either way something is now unstable. A boot loop to me means you never get to Windows. In a boot loop the system just reboots and never gets as far as to even let you in BIOS much less Windows.
 
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Then you either have some hardware failing like the hard drive or as I suspect the AI Suite changed something you need to fix by clearing CMOS to reset the BIOS.
 
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No. But you can try the Load Failsafe or Load Factory defaults first. To clear CMOS you either have to short the jumper on the board or remove the battery for about 15 minutes as I stated above. Your motherboard manual will tell you exactly what to do.
 
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Ok, thanks man! One more thing. I noticed that on my motherboard it has a large red button with a refresh icon. Will that clear it? I will certainly look at the mobo manual, but its just very confusing ;P
 
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