Hello TweakTown!
I bought new rig in May this year and after a month I noticed problem when cold booting the machine.
E: Looks like I was wrong about this. The thing is that I was talking BS about I waited 10-15 minutes and nothing happened. I dunno, I remembered wrong or something.
Today the problem occurred again and I waited about 2 minutes and it resumed booting (Windows startup screen showed up). But the other problem is that my USB keyboard did not work in Windows. I swapped the the received to another USB slot and it worked again.
Makes me think if it's something to do with this wireless keyboard from the beginning. I need to test this forward with my wired USB keyboard.
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The screen is black and there is only texts in upper left screen "American Megatrends..." the manufacturer information I guess and lower right screen "98" which is the same number that is in the Dr. Debut digital display on the motherboard. Manual says about this code: "Console input devices connect".
So far I've done these:
-tested the HDD with Lenovo PC-Doctor, no errors/bad blocks found
-changed the SATA-cable to new one and SATA-port to different one on motherboard
-memory tested with memtest (8 passes), no errors found
-BIOS upgrade to 1.80, didn't help
-cmos reset and battery away 15 sec from mobo
My rig:
Intel Core i5-2500K (not overclocked)
ASRock P67 Extreme4, P67 (B3)
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB (not overclocked)
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
Corsair AX 750W
Elixir 4GB PC3-10667U CL9-9-9-24 (DDR3-1333)
LiteOn iHAS124 DVD-RW
Nexus Breeze with Nexus 120mm fan (http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2004/...eze-sysfan.jpg)
Logitech VX Nano Mouse (1 usb receiver)
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3000 (1 usb receiver)
Buffalo Wireless usb receiver WLI-UC-G300N
Lacie External USB HDD 2TB (it's powered off during system start up, I start it after Windows boots)
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Yesterday (31.7.) when it happened once again I made these changes, so we need to wait and see if it did help this time.
-upgraded BIOS to 1.90
-made sure the PSU cables are connected correctly and seated well (motheboard end, PSU end and all the other components like HDD, GPU etc.)
-unplugged the LiteON DVDRW drive from motherboard and PSU
-plugged the PC speaker to the motherboard, so if the next time this happens it might beep and give some hint
-plugged the PSU power cord straight to the wall socket (the cable went to extension cord before)
So any hints to this case? Motherboard related, PSU related? I don't have any extra mobos or PSUs available so I could test those.
E: Actually there has been 2-3 freezes during gameplay in these 2 month (so that I had to turn the computer off), but I don't know if it is related.
Thanks in advance!
I bought new rig in May this year and after a month I noticed problem when cold booting the machine.
E: Looks like I was wrong about this. The thing is that I was talking BS about I waited 10-15 minutes and nothing happened. I dunno, I remembered wrong or something.
Today the problem occurred again and I waited about 2 minutes and it resumed booting (Windows startup screen showed up). But the other problem is that my USB keyboard did not work in Windows. I swapped the the received to another USB slot and it worked again.
Makes me think if it's something to do with this wireless keyboard from the beginning. I need to test this forward with my wired USB keyboard.
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Old text:
The screen is black and there is only texts in upper left screen "American Megatrends..." the manufacturer information I guess and lower right screen "98" which is the same number that is in the Dr. Debut digital display on the motherboard. Manual says about this code: "Console input devices connect".
So far I've done these:
-tested the HDD with Lenovo PC-Doctor, no errors/bad blocks found
-changed the SATA-cable to new one and SATA-port to different one on motherboard
-memory tested with memtest (8 passes), no errors found
-BIOS upgrade to 1.80, didn't help
-cmos reset and battery away 15 sec from mobo
My rig:
Intel Core i5-2500K (not overclocked)
ASRock P67 Extreme4, P67 (B3)
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB (not overclocked)
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
Corsair AX 750W
Elixir 4GB PC3-10667U CL9-9-9-24 (DDR3-1333)
LiteOn iHAS124 DVD-RW
Nexus Breeze with Nexus 120mm fan (http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2004/...eze-sysfan.jpg)
Logitech VX Nano Mouse (1 usb receiver)
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3000 (1 usb receiver)
Buffalo Wireless usb receiver WLI-UC-G300N
Lacie External USB HDD 2TB (it's powered off during system start up, I start it after Windows boots)
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Yesterday (31.7.) when it happened once again I made these changes, so we need to wait and see if it did help this time.
-upgraded BIOS to 1.90
-made sure the PSU cables are connected correctly and seated well (motheboard end, PSU end and all the other components like HDD, GPU etc.)
-unplugged the LiteON DVDRW drive from motherboard and PSU
-plugged the PC speaker to the motherboard, so if the next time this happens it might beep and give some hint
-plugged the PSU power cord straight to the wall socket (the cable went to extension cord before)
So any hints to this case? Motherboard related, PSU related? I don't have any extra mobos or PSUs available so I could test those.
E: Actually there has been 2-3 freezes during gameplay in these 2 month (so that I had to turn the computer off), but I don't know if it is related.
Thanks in advance!
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