hi, I am having a problem figuring out the next step in troubleshooting my computer. While watching TV the thing starts doing the long loud "there's something wrong" beep. I go up and turn it off and check it out and start it back up. Well, at first it starts, but there's no vid and it just cycles itself before doing anything. So i undo all the power cables, check the power config, check the PCI-E slots, Check/change/clean all the ram and so forth and so on. So i start it back up with the same problem. So i unhook all other things that it can start normally without. Again, same problem, but the HDD is starting and spinning as normal.
Now i'm thinking it may be a power issue so i plug everything back in and ensure all power cables are routed correctly and see if everything is good and the HDD is still spinning up, and the drives are opening/closing perfectly. It's no longer cycling, but it is starting up with no bios beep or anything. just power on with no vid while on the 115 PS setting. On the 230 setting it's still cycling power.
So i get deeper and decide to check out the CMOS battery. I take it out and wait for about 5-10 sec and put it back in. Success! it works and i fix all the regular time/date settings and it works fine. So my first instinct is that the battery is going bad and i replace it with a known good one. Now with the new battery in it still does not work correctly. Everytime i want to start it up i have to remove-wait-and reinstall the CMOS battery to get a successful boot-up.
I'm thinking of either replacing the PS or the Mobo. Any help into this would be greatly appreciated. I've asked a few friends with degrees in computer science and they are as stumped as i am.
Thank you.
