Yesterday, I FINALLY got my Cooler Master HAF 932 case from Newegg.com. So I ripped all hardware from my old tower (only a few months old rig, but tower wasn't providing sufficient cooling), while grounded of course, and began installing all of the hardware components into the new tower. As I was installing all of the components, I was blowing out all of the dust with Dust Off to remove any foreign matter.
Now upon bootup, I noticed that I had received a command line during POST, stating, "F1 to continue, or Delete to enter Setup". I then looked at the digit LED's on the mobo and they displayed "7F". I looked up the definition of that error code in my mobo's manual and it states, name - "POST Error Check" / description - "Check POST error and display them and ask for user intervention".
So I hit F1 to continue, the digit LED's display "FF" and I go straight to desktop. EVERYTHING appears fine... internet works, programs work, good response time, everything (I haven't attempted to play any games since this was about 1 a.m. last nite). I went online to look up a cause and remedy and most forums are stating that it appears to be a video card problem. But these people are getting a black screen on bootup. I am not. Once I hit F1, it's ok. But rebooting provides me with the same error again. They also recommended re-seating everything, and possibly moving the video card to another slot. I did this, same thing happens. I've manually went into setup and reset all settings to factory defaults in BIOS. Restarted, and the same thing happens, once again.
Today I read that some are stating that resetting the CMOS jumper should fix the problem. My questions are:
--- What could resetting the CMOS jumper do to solve this problem, if I've already reset the BIOS to factory defaults?
--- Anyone else ever have this problem and how did they fix it?
Now upon bootup, I noticed that I had received a command line during POST, stating, "F1 to continue, or Delete to enter Setup". I then looked at the digit LED's on the mobo and they displayed "7F". I looked up the definition of that error code in my mobo's manual and it states, name - "POST Error Check" / description - "Check POST error and display them and ask for user intervention".
So I hit F1 to continue, the digit LED's display "FF" and I go straight to desktop. EVERYTHING appears fine... internet works, programs work, good response time, everything (I haven't attempted to play any games since this was about 1 a.m. last nite). I went online to look up a cause and remedy and most forums are stating that it appears to be a video card problem. But these people are getting a black screen on bootup. I am not. Once I hit F1, it's ok. But rebooting provides me with the same error again. They also recommended re-seating everything, and possibly moving the video card to another slot. I did this, same thing happens. I've manually went into setup and reset all settings to factory defaults in BIOS. Restarted, and the same thing happens, once again.
Today I read that some are stating that resetting the CMOS jumper should fix the problem. My questions are:
--- What could resetting the CMOS jumper do to solve this problem, if I've already reset the BIOS to factory defaults?
--- Anyone else ever have this problem and how did they fix it?
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Intel Core2Duo E8400 3.0GHz
- Motherboard
- eVGA NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI
- Memory
- OCZ NVIDIA SLI-Ready Edition 4x2GB PC6400 DDR2800 4-4-4-15
- Graphics Card(s)
- eVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB GDDR3
- Sound Card
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 7.1
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG - 23" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HD Monitor - Black
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
- PSU
- OCZ GameXStream 600W
- Case
- Cooler Master HAF 932
- Cooling
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler, 6x120mm, 2x140mm
- Other Info
- Logitech G51 155 watts RMS 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers
