Hi, for some reason i seem to be having a boot problem and i can't seem to find a reason or permanent fix for it.
I have an abit ip35 dark raider, and it's always started up with fans on highest speed, shut down then started up again with fans on high speed, fans then slow down and it and worked, i think this is usual with p35 boards and just requires a flash to fix it, i've never bothered fixing it though as i don't really see it as a problem.
Now though, it starts up with fans on high speed, shuts down and starts up again with fans on high speed and stays like this. I can't get it to start up at all unless i reset the CMOS and remove the CMOS battery for about 15 mins. I used to have a q6600 oc'ed to 3.2ghz but now i can't keep my oc because i have to continually do the steps above to get it to boot, whenever i try to save any BIOS settings and restart the computer it will have the same boot problem as before. I have no case speaker either. Latest change to build was a new hdd on the 8th of march, the problem started occurring on 3rd august and i was on hols from 4th-23rd. On the night of the 3rd my grandfather touched the computer and could have somehow broken it
Specs:
Abit ip35 dark raider
q6600
TRUE
8gb ddr2-800 g.skill ram
seagate 7200.11 320gb (primary drive)
samsung f1 1tb (bought later for more storage)
nvidia 9800gx2
cm stacker 831
samsung sm245b