Mobo Help - Urgent

[chris_r]

Hello,

I am playing with what was a very stable system using an old Motherboard chaintech ultra zenith 7njs with AMD 3200.

Its fine for its needs. Anyway everything was going fine; now i restart it and the LED is showing error 'C3' and according to the manual the fix is 'expnand compressed BIOS code to DRAM'

No idea what that means and also i cant get ANYTHING to come on the screen, even though a moment ago it was fine

Please please help

thanks

edit: i can not get anything on the screen, although the DVD drive will open an seems to be working. the keyboard lights all flash once on boot up, an the mouse 'led/laser' is on

the monitor is powered on with nothing on screen and the front bay on the LED just says the C3.

 

[Cob]

Cleared the CMOS yet?

 

[chris_r]

How? :$

 

[Cob]

There should be some pins near the motherboard battery, or you can remove the actual battery for a couple of mins.

You'll need to reset the clock in the BIOS if you remove the battery.

 

[chris_r]

oh my days, you legend!

you made my day, thank you so much...honestly thank you