DG965SSCK Mother Board Broken?

[WongTongSoup]

Ok I have a problem. I'm pretty sure my video card burned out so I took it out and tried hooking up my monitor to the mother board VGA but it won't recognize it. To confirm my monitor wasn't broken i hooked it up to another computer and it worked just fine. Any ideas on whats wrong? I have had people tell me that my mother board might of given out on me. I do remember after the crashes to my computer that when I tried to turn it on, the computer made beeping noises... My computer is custom built in March of 2007!

 

[IH8U]

Typically those beep codes mean something is wrong (often listed on the manufacturers site), usually RAM. Try removing all but one stick, and power up. If it boots, you know one or more sticks are bad. Another thing you may want to try is remove the CMOS battery for a few seconds to reset the BIOS (could be attempting to display to the PCIe slot).

 

[WongTongSoup]

I did both of these and it booted up with the error "The firmeware has detected that a CMOS Checksum Error occured." Is my ram bad or the battery??

 

[IH8U]

The battery is fairly cheap, and more easily obtained through B&M stores (radio shack, PC shop, ect...) They only cost about $5. Check your BIOS to make sure your display is set to PEG (onboard vid), and double check all other settings. Then boot to windows (or try) then reboot (the error should disappear).

 

[WongTongSoup]

I just rebooted with the same battery and everything seems to be working fine... Should I still change the battery? Also how do I check to see which ram is bad? I took 3 out of the 4 rams out.

 

[IH8U]

Battery is fine then, add one stick at a time and see if it boots. If it errors or stops booting, you know which stick is bad. If it is the first stick you add, remove it and keep trying the other sticks.