Woke up to find my computer messed up today... whats happening if whenever the computer is turned on the mobo booting process takes literally 10 or more minutes to go anywhere including bios.
To make matters worse it fails to even start booting windows it always gives one of three errors.
1: checksum error
2: Fails to find the operating system installed
3: fails to find it and fails to find the harddrive and try's to go forth via cd-rom.
I've tried resetting the CMOS battery, taking every piece of hardware out except the CPU, swapped ram sticks slots and tried each ram stick by itself, swapped harddrives... nothing worked.
Now I'm sure the checksum error has to do with the CMOS but that wouldn't explain my other problems. My biggest fear is that my mobo itself is the problem. I really like this mobo and wold hate to have to put it to sleep and send it to hardware heaven where system requirements don't exist and everything is compatible.. :lol:
My specs are
p35-ds3l
E4300 OC to 3GHZ
256mb Radeon 3850
2X 1GB DDR2 Mushkin 6400
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
To make matters worse it fails to even start booting windows it always gives one of three errors.
1: checksum error
2: Fails to find the operating system installed
3: fails to find it and fails to find the harddrive and try's to go forth via cd-rom.
I've tried resetting the CMOS battery, taking every piece of hardware out except the CPU, swapped ram sticks slots and tried each ram stick by itself, swapped harddrives... nothing worked.
Now I'm sure the checksum error has to do with the CMOS but that wouldn't explain my other problems. My biggest fear is that my mobo itself is the problem. I really like this mobo and wold hate to have to put it to sleep and send it to hardware heaven where system requirements don't exist and everything is compatible.. :lol:
My specs are
p35-ds3l
E4300 OC to 3GHZ
256mb Radeon 3850
2X 1GB DDR2 Mushkin 6400
Any help will be greatly appreciated.