And to answer your edit, I have a friend of mine that knows how to set up everything, and he even knows this is fishy.. we couldnt even access the BIOS without taking out the battery every time we wanted to go into it. then it wouldnt save the previous changes we made and was a continuous loop...
Alright, Here goes.
All day we are wondering wtf this "cmos checksum error" is, we look on the net and get our answer. We remove the battery and put it back in and *wam* the BIOS appears after 3 hours of trying to access it. So we think cool , well just set it back to the original settings and...
Well, about the message on screen, its just what happens when nothing is plugged into it when it is powered up. Motherboard manual is pathetic, has a few things about jumpers which we already inspected. The mobo has no onboard video so we are hooking it through a GeForce2MX400(had no more money...
Well, The monitor isn't the problem Just tested another one. All of the drive lights are blinking every few seconds, and the output on the screen has an indicator saying "monitor is working, check cables.." etc .
It started doing this after I downloaded the driver then went to reboot. It then...
I am building my first computer and got all the parts together today. I assemble them all correctly(I had a computer literate person with me the entire time). I had everything all set, went to boot up the system and I get "cmos checksum error". We researched it and we discovered it wasn't the...