[ToRSpartaz]

Well im now absolutely positive its the card, today I open up my laptop and surprise suprise the ATI card isnt working or present under device manager and....

HEY DJ

[Cordance]

Originally Posted by Spartaz

Well im now absolutely positive its the card, today I open up my laptop and surprise suprise the ATI card isnt working or present under device manager and....

HEY DJ

You are most likely right but you should look at why its happening not just what happened much like a game of starcraft you dont want the same thing to happen again when its bad.

[ToRSpartaz]

Originally Posted by Cordance

You are most likely right but you should look at why its happening not just what happened much like a game of starcraft you dont want the same thing to happen again when its bad.

Yeah bro I know, Thats why im going to send it in as it is under warranty. Last time I had the problem the ATI card was still present, but apparently it was a software issue. This time is different so im going to get it checked out for sure.

[Paroxysm]

Hey guys, this is basically the entire explanation of the problem with my pc along with my gaming rig's specs.

http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthre...142#post561142

Hopefully someone within this forum will be able to help me solve the issue, as it can be quite frustrating at the moment.

Cheers,
Nick.

[ikki]

Reset bios to default, flash bios to latest

I assume you have tried all the different usb ports, do you have a different keyboard and mouse to try see if it still happens?

Also a quick google search came back with this http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=8128.0, updating the bios seems to have fixed it

[Paroxysm]

I would do that, but i'm not exactly sure, and I want to be certain that it is definitely the problem before tinkering around with the computer and wrecking anything.

[Flamga]

Originally Posted by nicknack

Reset bios to default, flash bios to latest

I assume you have tried all the different usb ports, do you have a different keyboard and mouse to try see if it still happens?

Also a quick google search came back with this http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=8128.0, updating the bios seems to have fixed it

If in doubt, if tis a hardware issue with the motherboard a BIOS reset, THEN update usually does the job. Try resetting ti first in case it is jsut some bad settings, if that doesnt work then as above update the BIOS and that should do it

[inFeZa]

resetting your bios isnt hard and wont mess up anything unless you touch the board with some static or something.

[Paroxysm]

Im curious as to how you actually reset your BIOS ?

[Flamga]

I should mention make sure you dont have any power cables plugged in at all!!!!!

Ok you will want to look at your motherboard manual, it should have a diagram on there with a BIOS flash or reset. Normally you short this to do it, OR if you look on your motherboard there will be a watch sized battery on it, unclip that and leave it for a few mins, this will also hard reset all the BIOS settings.

If this does not work you need to download the latest BIOS, and go into the BIOS menus at boot, and there will be a flash utility in there, its fairly straight forward once you get into the utility. Direct to where the new BIOS is and tell it to update and it will do the rest itself

[ikki]

Originally Posted by Paroxysm

Im curious as to how you actually reset your BIOS ?

Google.com

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	LoRDo:	How does that help?
	Paroxysm:	Already tried it, and google isnt always a trustworthy source.
	ToRDjvillian:

[LoRDo]

I would agree with these guys - flashing the CMOS and/or updating the BIOS is the best way forward.

The main thing that would lead me to pointing @ the BIOS is the clock dying.

[foxmeep]

Once your computer freezes, will the display ever change or does sound continue to play? (eg, if you're watching a movie)

[Paroxysm]

The sound would stop entirely. I have a headset plugged into the sound/mic jacks in the back of my tower.

[Paroxysm]

Found the battery, directly under my Graphics card... Really cbf to pull out the graphics card to remove the battery :/. Are there any other options?

[xpaperclip]

Originally Posted by Paroxysm

Found the battery, directly under my Graphics card... Really cbf to pull out the graphics card to remove the battery :/. Are there any other options?

From the motherboard information you gave in your other post, refer to section 9 on page 26 of your manual. It shows you the location of the jumper you can short.

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	Paroxysm:	Cheers, might get onto this shortly!
	LoRDo:

[LoRDo]

That's the way!
Make sure you read the instructions to clearing it before you go ahead

[TABjornbrandr]

Lately I've been encountering a problem with my computer the moment I log into SC2. Upon entering my account, the game client freezes completely. If I go to alt-tab out, I might be able to open my browser or skype, but then they become non-responsive as well.
Any audio that was playing before the freeze continues, as well as skype calls. However, I cannot control-alt-delete/alt-f4 to close. The only way to 'unfreeze' my computer is to do a restart.

I've run the sc2 repair and cleared any temporary info as per recommendation from blizzard in similar cases, as well as checking that my video drivers are up to date and have also tried running in fullscreen mode. After a reasonable look on google and the sc2 forums, I haven't found an identical issue report.

Anyone encountered the same issue or know of how to fix this?

[ETL.Branno]

its not ideal but if it was me id probably just end up re-installing windows

[MazEi]

Um...I had this problem when I had Xwindows Dock, where it crashed but also caused my whole com to just go kaput. I just uninstalled it. Are you sure its your SC2 causing the problem? If it is perhaps a full clean install instead of just the repair? Maybe run a check on your registry?