Re: Vista Won't POST or Boot After BIOS Mod

Hi,

Try powering off, disconnect the power cord from the wall, then remove the cmos battery from the motherboard. This will remove any memory of changes that may be being held by a trickle of power (clearing cmos via jumper should work, but sometimes things don't do what they're supposed to). Wait 20 minutes, then reinstall the battery, reconnect power and start up. It should load factory defaults.

If the above fails to get through the POST, you should assume that a component has failed. It may or may not be related to the changes you made. It could be merely coincidental. I would check the manual to see if it has any motherboard diagnostic steps, and possibly check the power supply.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"art1" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3522e5b445a0915d0fec60ab30f5a3da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Vista 32 is installed on my year-old homebuilt computer (Gigabyte
P35T-DQ6 m/b, Award BIOS V6.00PG, Intel E6750 cpu). It's been working
just great. At the end of a normal computing session, I entered the
BIOS to make a small change. When I attempted to restart, the POST
stalled after running the memory check.

In an attempt to correct the problem, I reentered the BIOS and removed
the several changes I had made and, I think, returned the BIOS to its
former configuration. However, the result is the same; it stalls after
the memory check. The rest of the POST does not run. It never gets to
the point where VISTA should boot.

Since then I have cleared the cleared the CMOS several times by
shorting the CLR_CMOS (Clearing CMOS Jumper) (Page 34 in the m/b User's
Manual) and reentered the configuation, loaded "Load Fail-Safe
Defaults", loaded "Load Optimized Defaults", and again reconfigured from
scratch. None of these attempts have enabled complete POST nor O/S
boot.

I'm out of ideas. Your suggestions are solicited.

Art1


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art1

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