strange bios stuff

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#1

Today my PC just shut down, without a real reason, the temperatures were all alright and I didn’t change anything in the bios settings.
I wanted to start the PC again, but it only beeped and on the debug diplay stood “2A” or “2E”, I don’t remember that good anymore.
So I reset the BIOS and the PC works again.
I think the BIOS “crashed”, because the error code mentioned above is described as initializing error of the components.
How could this happen?

Specs:
MSI 790FX-GD70
AMD PhenomII 955 BE
2x OCZ DDR-1333 Platinum Low Voltage(7-7-7-20)
Asus HD5870 V2(REV1)

#2

maybe the bios was automatically updated

#3

hm, no, still the same version

#4

Keep on eye on it. Are there any later versions of the BIOS at MSI that fix that kind of problem?

If so and it does it again I would consider updating the BIOS to the latest version, it can be risky but with M-Flash it’s less so as it should simple enough to recover if something goes wrong. In the meantime make sure everything is seated correctly and maybe run memtest for a while to double check your ram is still okay.

#5

Did you check the battery?

#6

more precisely, did it say CMOS CHECKSUM FAILED and did your PC sound louder than usual right after it crashed?

#7

it said nothing, the screen didn’t get a signal and the graphics card fan turned up to 100%.(like if it’s uninitialized)
btw, I found some BIOS updates, but they’re all for the support of the hexa-core CPUs

#8

If your moniter ain’t getting signal

  1. Check the cords

  2. Your cord could be broken

  3. Broken moniter.

#9

Did you even read his problem?

#10

Has your board go an ‘on board’ reset ?

#11

It has a button on the mainboard which resets the bios, but as far as I’m aware it can’t press itself

#12

err, your english wasnt shineing, have you attempted to reset the bios using the button ?

#13

and yeah, my english is shit sometimes

#14

maybe its because MSI is a pile of shit, i stopped buying from them a while ago.

#15

I was always satisfied with MSI Boards and had no issues except this one which happened once.

#16

Helpful much.

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