AsRock Won't POST after removing CMOS battery

[MichaelK33]

First off, I do not know if this is the correct form to ask for technical support in, and if it is not please advise me and I will fix that problem.

Anyway, the motherboard that I have is the AsRock 970 Extreme3 with an AM3+ socket. I have it paired with an FX-4100, and just bought an aftermarket cooler to overclock the processor. The computer booted fine with the cooler installed, however it would not let me into the BIOS settings on the motherboard. By not letting me, I mean I would press the DELETE key on the keyboard, and the screen would then turn black and not do anything. Still however, Windows 7 was able to load up and nothing else was wrong. I think this is the problem after I installed the updated BIOS (1.70) through Windows. Trying to problem solve, I thought about resetting my BIOS settings, by removing the CMOS battery from the motherboard. So I took the graphics card out to gain access to it, and removed it for about eleven and a half minutes. Upon putting everything else back in, the motherboard was not able to fully POST and stopped on the code, "99". The display was recognizing it and the codes were being shown on the screen though, so the graphics card and the PCI express lanes are not damaged.

I am looking to buy a new motherboard, but need to know what went wrong with it first before I spend money on a new one. Maybe it can even be saved? All suggestions are welcome, and don't be afraid to use high levels of computer terms in your replies. Thanks in advance!

 

[computergeek]

First off, I do not know if this is the correct form to ask for technical support in, and if it is not please advise me and I will fix that problem.

Anyway, the motherboard that I have is the AsRock 970 Extreme3 with an AM3+ socket. I have it paired with an FX-4100, and just bought an aftermarket cooler to overclock the processor. The computer booted fine with the cooler installed, however it would not let me into the BIOS settings on the motherboard. By not letting me, I mean I would press the DELETE key on the keyboard, and the screen would then turn black and not do anything. Still however, Windows 7 was able to load up and nothing else was wrong. I think this is the problem after I installed the updated BIOS (1.70) through Windows. Trying to problem solve, I thought about resetting my BIOS settings, by removing the CMOS battery from the motherboard. So I took the graphics card out to gain access to it, and removed it for about eleven and a half minutes. Upon putting everything else back in, the motherboard was not able to fully POST and stopped on the code, "99". The display was recognizing it and the codes were being shown on the screen though, so the graphics card and the PCI express lanes are not damaged.

I am looking to buy a new motherboard, but need to know what went wrong with it first before I spend money on a new one. Maybe it can even be saved? All suggestions are welcome, and don't be afraid to use high levels of computer terms in your replies. Thanks in advance!

99----- Super IO is being initialized. As long as the drives are not formatted and raw, plus you have some OS disc in the ODD or a USB dev connected, this will take time.

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Faulty device or hardware maybe, first try disconnecting all external devices and with this being a newer motherboards, I have noticed just ripping out the cmos battery doesn't always do it.
I am not sure if this is down to having multiple bios profiles/dual bios's nowadays.
Now remove the cmos battery then remove power the cable and then hold the power button on the PC case to drain all the power.
Next remove one of your ram sticks, now boot up the PC and hopefully you should get access to the bios.
Reset all the bios settings to default hit f10 to save, let it reboot then power down the PC.
Now pop in the other ram stick and reboot the PC and try to boot back into the bios, if this works its most likely a faulty peripheral or faulty hardware also XMP profiles cause this weird boot loops I have found.
If they're setup incorrectly.