Is my cpu broken?. ok so i'm pretty sure we had a power surge last night. Computer would not turn on in the morning until i reset our surge protector, after which it turned out. I was presented with something along the lines of: "CPU is not working our has...

my last 2 have done it (a DFI and an ASUS). I actually have indicator lights on the board to show that there is still power in it even when it is completely powered down, takes a few seconds for them to fade if I switch off my surge protector. I don't use...

The Crucial will almost certainly need more than 1.8V. It's possible your BIOS defaulted. Or I suppose it's possible a spike damaged your PSU just enough to cause some instabilities in voltage, or your MB the same. It's most likely it's just a BIOS reset issue....

surge protector so they decided that maybe I needed to reset my bios. My surge protector wasnt expensive but I still dont belive thats what is causing my problem. What do all of you think I should do? Would reseting the bios fix anything or did they just tell...

to help me? Also I will try the battery thing, that resets the Bios? Also I am pretty sure that it wasn't a power surge cuz its connected to a power surge protector and if it was a surge wouldn't it have completely messed up my psu? Not work at all. Cuz it...

and hard drive. Is there a hardware button to reset BIOS? I never see anything on the monitor, or get a chance for input. I'll try disassembly this weekend. Thnx! Try pulling the battery on the board for ~ 15 minutes. That'll reset the BIOS. There...

powered, well, reset the computer. Next restart and enter BIOS setup (F2, Del, Esc, or whatever the manual says), press the key several times immediately at the start of the boot process. Check all of the settings in the BIOS and even if nothing has...

you have another PSU you could try? It almost sounds like it doesn't know what to do... wrong voltages would make it not boot, but it should shut off, not restart. At your LAN party, did you have it plugged into a surge protector? Is it possible a surge hit...

Alt, Del will not bring up task manager, and I have no mouse, the only way to turn it off is to turn off at surge protector. I have tried to reset to a restore point, but machine will not stay up long enought to do that.[/FONT] U N D E F I N E D [/FONT...

supposedly means "Indicates a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information". But I can't find anything that tells me how to correct his problem. I've tried resetting BIOS. Reseating video card,...