ARGH!! Please help quick..

TheMagicPirate · 11 Feb 2006 at 23:38

My PC has died.

I was running Norton AV and left my PC.

When I returned it was turned off, 'Weird?' I thought.

When I tried to turn it on nothing happened, so blah blah blah, I assumed it was the PSU. Replaced the PSU and yay, it boots up, unfortunatly it only gets to the part just after sayin HDD S.M.A.R.T capable etc.. and restarts and continues to restart itself even before getting past the graphics card bios stage.

If it does get past detecting the HDD's it says 'CMOS/GPNV error' (I think it says error) then press F2 for Setup or F1 for default.

I press F2, I get into the bios and about 10 seconds later back inot the restart cycle, I press F1 and nothing, just another restart.

Help me! Any ideas?

Thanks TMP

trojan698 · 12 Feb 2006 at 09:19

Try resetting the CMOS

malccy · 12 Feb 2006 at 10:06

Could also be a h/drive problem - might want to put Windows cd in and see if it takes you to the install/repair screen.

leezer3 · 12 Feb 2006 at 10:10

Almost sounds like a toasty mobo I'm afraid. If the old PSU went down, then it could well have taken it with it.
Try resetting the CMOS, & booting with the minimum of stuff in & see what happens though- It could be that the PSU you have in there at the moment is unable to cope with the load of all your components.

-Leezer-