Processor Failure?

[ffejrxx]

most bios reset jumpers look like this
http://nuwan4u.files.wordpress.com/2...0e547a9737.jpg

unplug power from the power supply

if it has the jumper on pins 1-2
remove the jumper, put it on pins 2-3
wait a second or two, remove the jumper and put it back on pins 1-2

plug it in again

[fincher234]

Originally Posted by Sir.Mongoose

So they just want me to push the pins in or how, Well I guess I'll find out once I do it...

There is a jumper shunt on the pins that shorts them. If you look at the photo in ffejrxx link the blue thing on the first two pins is a jumper shunt.

You can also look at this picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ju...ock-shunts.jpg

for more photos as well as the top center showing one of them shorting two pins. They don't have to be blue in color they are often also black.

You need to remove the shunt from pins one and two, as in the ffejrxx picture, and move it one pin to the right so it is on pins 2 and 3. You can take a pair of needlenose pliers to gently pull straight up on the shunt to pull it off the pins. Don't strongarm it or bend the pins on the motherboard. They don't require a lot of force to remove and you aren't trying to push in or pull out any of the actual pins. The shunt is simply a small block of plastic with a metal crosspiece in it to short the 2 pins that it is put on together.


"By the way, woudn't just putting the battery back out and back in be quicker? And when I clear the CMOS, won't it also delete my operating system? Or it won't because my OS is in my C: drive?"

You can pull the button battery out as well but that isn't necessarily easier. You need to learn how to deal with the jumpers.

No, your OS is installed on your hard drive. It isn't going to erase anything on your hard drive. It is clearing the cmos bios information on the motherboard and resetting it to the defaults. If bios settings had been changed from the defaults to optimize the machine then you would have to try to reconstruct those settings after clearing things, but it should at least allow you to get back into the bios and try to boot the machine.

[CymTyr]

FWIW I had a similar situation a while back, and what it was was the mobo going bad. Hope this helps.

[Sir.Mongoose]

Okay, FIXED! Thank you guys, it also may have fixed my other H.T.S.E error, because when I got a new processor, I should have reset my bios I guess so far it helped that problem as well... Thanks you guys are much better than any steam support!