I have a Gigabyte GA-8simlnf board with p4 2.7 GHz chip on it.
Every time i started the PC, it would switch on, but no VGA signal came on screen. I would have to hold power button in for 10 secs to turn off and then the next time i turn it on it works. I firstly thought it was the ATI AGP Card, so i replaced it with a different card but no difference. Tried a PCI grapics card and it did not get any signal at all. SO then i thought, maybe if i remove the CMOS battery for 30 secs it may clear the bios as maybe there was problem there. I had the power plug in during all this. Now i get "CMOS/GPNV Checksum Bad" message on bios screen when pc starts up, it says i can press F1 load defaults & Continue to change values and F2 to Setup. f2 does not take me to Bios and when i press F1 all that changes is were the message above also savys F2 : Setup F8: Boot Menu, it changes to F8: Boot>Network.
This is very frustrating, i would appreciate all the help i can get. thanks
Every time i started the PC, it would switch on, but no VGA signal came on screen. I would have to hold power button in for 10 secs to turn off and then the next time i turn it on it works. I firstly thought it was the ATI AGP Card, so i replaced it with a different card but no difference. Tried a PCI grapics card and it did not get any signal at all. SO then i thought, maybe if i remove the CMOS battery for 30 secs it may clear the bios as maybe there was problem there. I had the power plug in during all this. Now i get "CMOS/GPNV Checksum Bad" message on bios screen when pc starts up, it says i can press F1 load defaults & Continue to change values and F2 to Setup. f2 does not take me to Bios and when i press F1 all that changes is were the message above also savys F2 : Setup F8: Boot Menu, it changes to F8: Boot>Network.
This is very frustrating, i would appreciate all the help i can get. thanks