has anyone come across this prob

[spondulick]

at system check get this warning,(secondary ide channel no80 conductor cable installed). system health ok, memory testing ok prompted to press f1 to continue, del system set up and so on... so press f1 everything is fine windows loads no prob checked in bios all drives recognised including cd on this ide channel, noprobs in device manager eg dodgy drivers ect. but when turn comp off or restart just get no signal on monitor then black screen, every time i need to reeboot need to remove and replace battery back then defaults loaded in bios checked connections but to no avail even changed ide cable no change....do you think i need to change my ide cable to an 80 pin one , any help would be most welcome.

[nano_watt]

How old is the battery?. It seems like the battery is not holding the bios information hence when you shutdown it reverts to default and you needs save the bios by going into it. Suggest changing the battery .

[spondulick]

cheers nano. wasnt sure if was cable, will get a new battery and try that. tower about 4yrs old so assume batt same, will it just be a case of changing battery or do i need to set up afterwards.

[spondulick]

update.changed ide cable that prob solved...changed battery but no different still will not boot after power down , just no signal to monitor and keyboard not lighting, remove and replace battery still same check sum error. can anyone throw some light on this.

[sattboy]

update.changed ide cable that prob solved...changed battery but no different still will not boot after power down , just no signal to monitor and keyboard not lighting, remove and replace battery still same check sum error. can anyone throw some light on this.

hi m8
after all checks you made i will ask you the obvious can you hear fan on power supply if so that rules out dodgy psu .just thought the cheksum error could be indicating faulty memory if not that board is dead

[cunny]

What is exact problem now.

Do you get post messages?
Can you boot into BIOS?
Does the screen just stay black regardless of what you do to it?

Whats the motherboard/ram/gfx card.

[thanassis]

try to use a 80 wire cable because maybe it cannot be used the older one with 40 wires