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PC freezes during boot

Hi, I just built a brand new PC and it freezes at the motherboard splash screen. If I press DEL before the splash screen shows, it displays entering setup, and freezes. Every now and then it will go past the splash screen and display the blinking text cursor. Would this be a DOA MoBo, Processor, RAM, etc.

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3nigmatic

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teamxnet

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I'll try that. Unfortantly it won't even power on this morning. I pressed the power switch and the power supply came on for a split second and then went off. Now it doesn't power on at all. The PC was in my car last night, it got cold, but it wasn't anything below 45 degrees. Any thoughts?

teamxnet

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I just tried to power the PC up again and it powered on fine. Guess it just needed to get warm again.

teamxnet

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I reset the CMOS and now it gets past the MoBo splash screen and gives me:

CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded
WARNING! Now System is in Safe Mode
Please Re-Setting CPU or memory frequency in CMOS setup

I pressed DEL to enter setup and tried to change the system date and it froze in BIOS.

I ran into a checksum error on a different older machine before, and I switched a jumper and it fixed the checksum error for them. Think I should try the same on this one?

3nigmatic

You could try that, but first boot into your BIOS and load system defaults [ F5 I think ]. Reboot and see what happens.

teamxnet

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Ok. So I pulled the CMOS battery out again and moved my CLRTC (Clear RTC RAM) jumper, moved back to its default, replaced battery and powered on. These were all steps in the manual. Same results. Checksum error, enter BIOS setup, within 10 seconds of being in BIOS it freezes.

I just realized I forgot to say I have an ASUS P5ND2-SLI board.

teamxnet

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I searched the checksum error on this site and found that some people were having this problem by possibly having a dead battery. Would a DEAD battery cause lock ups or just not retain CMOS info?

3nigmatic

If the board is new it shouldnt be the CMOS battery, but, let me know what the outcome is.