Need help fast PC acting weird

Dunkan77

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Oct 12, 2014
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Hello,

I don't know if it's the right category of threads first of all. So I have had this issue for a while now but it only changed recently to become more and more irritating. I have an ASUS ROG Maximus IV Extreme and it has been running just fine until one day when I plugged a HDD in and it shorted out ( the PC has shrot protection so I didn't start but it was smelling) and this is when the issues started. At first, there would be a "New CPU installed, Go in BIOS..." message each time I booted it after being powered off for any period of time. This was easily fix by just going in the BIOS and sometimes my OC would have been reset so I applied it again and saved to boot normally. This was what was happening until a few days ago.

What happens now is my mobo refuses to take the Power ON command whether I press the case button or the one directly on the mobo. This is remedied by clearing CMOS and the it will tell me to go in BIOS where only my CPU OC would be reset most of the time. This is getting out of hand and I know I should ask for help if anything unusual happens and I can't fix it.

There doesn't seem to be problems with the mobo itself or any of my hardware, just this BIOS thing. Also note that I have Dual BIOS and the second one doesn't have any issues or OC's to be able to repair my PC in case the first completely bugs out and I'd prefer not using it because there are no OC applied in it.

Also, I now get MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION errors and sometimes it just hangs up, stops responding and then restarts without showing any error messages. This is rendering my PC useless as it happens really often

I hope this isn't serious or too hard to fix and if you need any sort of details do not hesitate as I want to fix this once and for all. My PC even with rater old HDD's boots up pretty fast but since this, it takes a minute or two of faffing about just to get to the OS and it really is starting to become an nuisance.

Thanks in advance
 

Lutfij

Titan
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Sounds to me like there is an issue with your CMOS battery or CMOS corruption. Have you tried replacing the CMOS/motherboard battery with a new one? Since the rest of your hardware , according to you, check out to be in good order.

+ mind sharing the rest of your full hardware specs with us?