Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Monitor wont show anything unless I clear CMOS and wont boot!

Zemeth · 09-18-2007, 12:12 PM

New to forums, so any one who is willing to post and help me, you're the best

My Problem is that I just built my new computer, very nice parts, for me, a newbie. I'm pretty sure everything is good, all lights turn on all fans go, all jumpers on as per mobo manual said, BUT whenever I turn on my comp, the monitor stays blank, the green on light just flashes. I read up on that problem and it said that maybe if I cleared the CMOS. So I did that and it booted

THen the CMOS set Wrong error came up and did F1 into set up tried to see what the problem was, after I set soem things i did Save and Exit my comp restarted and again the monitor problem!

So after reseting the CMOS again I just pressed F2 to go with default settings, and it said thign to the effect of nothing being on hard drive boot from CD press any Key, so FINALLY I get into Windows XP setup. But it wouldnt let me put my OS onto my Raptor only onto my 500G Hard drive, so I restarted my comp

So now no matter what I do I can only get into the BIOS after resetting CMOS and whenever I just skip and use default settings it gives me "Missing Operating System" error. If any one can read all this and help, I will cry with happiness lol.

09-18-2007, 12:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
Zemeth Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: California Posts: 5 OS: XP	Monitor wont show anything unless I clear CMOS and wont boot! New to forums, so any one who is willing to post and help me, you're the best My Problem is that I just built my new computer, very nice parts, for me, a newbie. I'm pretty sure everything is good, all lights turn on all fans go, all jumpers on as per mobo manual said, BUT whenever I turn on my comp, the monitor stays blank, the green on light just flashes. I read up on that problem and it said that maybe if I cleared the CMOS. So I did that and it booted THen the CMOS set Wrong error came up and did F1 into set up tried to see what the problem was, after I set soem things i did Save and Exit my comp restarted and again the monitor problem! So after reseting the CMOS again I just pressed F2 to go with default settings, and it said thign to the effect of nothing being on hard drive boot from CD press any Key, so FINALLY I get into Windows XP setup. But it wouldnt let me put my OS onto my Raptor only onto my 500G Hard drive, so I restarted my comp So now no matter what I do I can only get into the BIOS after resetting CMOS and whenever I just skip and use default settings it gives me "Missing Operating System" error. If any one can read all this and help, I will cry with happiness lol.