Urgent Help please!

[Fyfey96]

Hey, I cleaned out my pc taking out most parts, graphics cards ect hard drives and stuff, I've done it all before. But when I've went and plugged it all back in. I switch it on and everything goes like normal but nothing happens no screen messages nothing. Like the screen doesn't find input and the pc just sounds like it's idle. I also tried pressing the mem ok button but nothing again. Any ideas what's wrong?
Thanks a lot help needed urgent. Regards
Fyfey

 

[Mathius]

Go back and recheck all your connections...

If the tower is staying on, then check the Monitor cable.
Does your monitor have that light that goes one colour when on and working (mine would be green) and then to another when the computer is off, but still has power? (mine would be amber)

If so what colour is the light?

 

[Fyfey96]

Right, okay i got it. There was a little blue square that connects 2 of 3 pins together on the motherboard and i remember taking that off, so i swapped it to the other 2 pins and bam it worked. Sily mistake. What is that anyway?

Here is a picture

See the little blue square above the front panel connections?

 

[Excalabur50]

It's a jumper connector it bridges pins to form a circuit, you used to have them alot on older hard drives depending on how you wanted them set up ie master or slave.

 

[Fyfey96]

Yea, I thought that but i mean like what is that one specifically doing?

 

[Tiuqu]

It's an asus board and by the looks of it, it's used to clear your bios

so that explains why it didn't want to boot at all

 

[Gamepro105]

It's an asus board and by the looks of it, it's used to clear your bios

so that explains why it didn't want to boot at all

It is called a clear cmos when the computer is set to clear the cmos it is not going through the normal bios procedure essentially writing to the bios not reading it it is constantly being cleared and not reading the boot sequence or any other important part of the boot process like giving an output to the monitor

That is a super simple way to put it and technically incorrect but that's basically what its doing for more information look at these Wikipedia pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_(computing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS

 

[Fyfey96]

Okay, thanks so does that mean like all my bios settings overclocks ect have cleared?

 

[mArTyN]

It does