My desktop machine up and died Friday. For some reason it keeps rebooting before it
even gets to the BIOS screen. I have a P5N-E SLI motherboard and I’ve emailed tech support to see if they have any diagnostic tools. Like maybe a trigger or some kind of
[diagnostic mode] where the motherboard could blink at me and say what the
problem is.
I’m still within my 1 year under Warranty. Before I mail this thing back for
repairs, I was just wanting to know if I could figure out the problem first.
I tried taking out the CMOS battery without success. The machine keeps rebooting before the BIOS screen opens up over and over. I’ll try resetting the Bios to factory mode (on the hardware if possible). But if that doesn’t work it must be a hardware problem.
Apparently there is something called a [power on self-test card] or [PCI POST diagnostics card] which is a PCI card that outputs computer problems to an easy to read LED display.