<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 18, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" class="">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Previously I wrote:<br class="">> I saw that there were two things inside of a white circle and<br class="">
> it said "clrmos2" or something like that, but I wasn't sure what<br class="">
> to do with those two things and still don't know.<br clear="all" class=""><br class=""></div>I figured out from some duckduckgoing that I could clear<br class=""></div><div class="">the cmos by using a screwdriver and touching those two<br class=""></div><div class="">things at the same time. </div></div></div></blockquote><div>Good. Always try on your own first.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I tried that several times and still <br class="">got the "00" code after it booted. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">Please check if the CPU is installed correctly and then <br class="">clear CMOS.</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Remove the cooler. Remove the fan. seat the CPU. Turn on the board. Does it still say 00? *DO NOT LEAVE IT LIKE THIS FOR LONG* as you will burn out the CPU (if you haven’t already). You might have also burned out the motherboard.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Troubleshooting: strip it down the the minimum: a little RAM, the CPU, a video card (if you need it) and nothing more. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""> Another time when I was <br class="">touching those things with the screwdriver, the machine turned <br class="">on by itself without me pushing the power button, but that <br class="">resulted in the same thing.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, there’s another spot on the board that will allow you to start/stop the computer in the same way. But if you touched more than just those two leads you might have made things worse.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One thought I had was taking the cpu over to someone's<br class=""></div><div class="">with an lga 1150 motherboard. I wouldn't mind letting you<br class=""></div><div class="">put the cpu in place. I'm hoping to get some good news and <br class="">find that at least the cpu is fine. Any volunteers?<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Can you send photos or post them on someplace like IMGUR please? Have you tried running the board outside of your case, but on a piece of cardboard or hardwood bench? You could even have a short in the case that you didn’t see (the most common issue IMO).</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Brian <br class="">Ebenezer Enterprises<br class=""><a href="http://webebenezer.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://webEbenezer.net</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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