Unknown Problem with PC

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rusty12

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Yesterday I was working all day writing up a report on my PC and around 6pm I decided I want to go play catch with a friend. I left my PC running knowing that if I was gone long enough, it would go into sleep mode. After returning an hour later, I found my PC did indeed go into sleep mode. However, when I hit my power button on my case to wake it back up it does nothing.

Right now, when I try and attempt to power on my PC all it does is power up in the sense that my case fans, cd-rom drives and the LED on my mouse power up along with the power led on my case, yet, the HDD activity led on my case does not light up, nor do I hear any activity going on with my HDD, my monitor's power led just flashes like it does when the computer is off and my keyboard led (numlock) does not light up either.

I turned off the power supply by flipping its lil switch on the back for 5minutes before turning everything back on again, and I still get the same problem.

I'm not sure what the issue is since some items are powering up like normal while others aren't. This all definitely sucks because I'm trying to write up my final reports for my internship and they are on my hard drive that I can't access.

One other thing, yesterday it did thunderstorm in my area and the power fluctuated once while my PC was on. The PC didn't turn off, and the storm passed and I didn't think anything of it cause the storm passed and everything was fine. I'm not sure if that could play into any of this.



Any body got any ideas?
 
I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but, uh, how do you reset your CMOS? I shouldn't be the power supply when some components are clearly getting power correct?
 
But is the board/CPU getting enough power from a PSU that survived a T-storm?

Clear your CMOS usually by using a jumper. The jumper should be near your battery somewhere, and labled something like RST_CMOS or CLR_CMOS or something like that. Your mobo manual should have more precise instructions.

Oh, you have a DS3R... well lucky you, I have the same board. Its labled CLR_CMOS and theres no jumper there by default. Its right next to the battery, between the PCI-E slot and the PCI slots. You need to borrow a jumper from somewhere if you don't have one handy (oddly enough, I dont even see one on the board that you can borrow, lol). You could also use anything metallic to "jump" these two CLR_CMOS pins, like a screwdriver. Just make sure you hold it there for about 30 seconds. Another option is just to remove the battery for a minute or two and make sure the system isn't plugged in. ;)
 
Ok, I'll give that a shot. I'll go try and remove the battery since that sounds simpler in my opinion :p I really hope this works, I can't handle anything major right now.
 
I cleared the CMOS values everything turned on. Yay! So, my question to you now is, what causes me to need to reset them? I'm not exactly sure what the CMOS values "do" in the first place but, I don't understand why I reseting them fixed my problem.

Oh and a big shout out for thanks to enginurd!!!
 
rusty12 said:
I cleared the CMOS values everything turned on. Yay! So, my question to you now is, what causes me to need to reset them? I'm not exactly sure what the CMOS values "do" in the first place but, I don't understand why I reseting them fixed my problem.

Oh and a big shout out for thanks to enginurd!!!
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BIOS got fried.

BIOS runs your PC, even into the OS.
 
What legendz said... and I'm guessing the t-storm caused it, with either a dip or spike in power (most likely a dip).
 
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