Hi I am a noob by the way who tinkers with ancient tech!
I had problems with my home office PC, wouldn't recognise the on board geforce 9400 and occasional starting issues. No visible damage, I moved over to another work PC for a bit.
I tried lots of things and tried to update the bios etc....
I just noticed that the Cosmos battery had run down, it is flat, ordered a new one.
I am going to pop a cpu, ram and a HDD on the board and try to fire it up again.
My question is will the board still have a bios (after my tinkering) and if it didn't can I load a new one on?
I have usb, optical drives and I am a rookie. Any pointers would be welcome, thanks.
(Probably use beta Windows 8 to tinker with btw).
Here is the link for the board
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2946#ov
I had problems with my home office PC, wouldn't recognise the on board geforce 9400 and occasional starting issues. No visible damage, I moved over to another work PC for a bit.
I tried lots of things and tried to update the bios etc....
I just noticed that the Cosmos battery had run down, it is flat, ordered a new one.
I am going to pop a cpu, ram and a HDD on the board and try to fire it up again.
My question is will the board still have a bios (after my tinkering) and if it didn't can I load a new one on?
I have usb, optical drives and I am a rookie. Any pointers would be welcome, thanks.
(Probably use beta Windows 8 to tinker with btw).
Here is the link for the board
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2946#ov
