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I want to talk about something that came up a few days ago unexpectedly the computer behind me is featuring the FX 8350 nat build already I attempt to show you the build in three minutes or less in a youtube video that you can check out in the card above me but nonetheless I put it together and I ran it through a series of benchmarks and then I also put it up head-to-head against the i3 6100 if you haven't seen that video you can also check that one out in the card above me if the one before hand has finally moved out of the way but I like the PC it honestly is pretty good and what I wanted to do for this video was edit everything and record everything on the I should also kind of minimizes someone told me this was just just trashy to keep to keep my my audio script up here it's just trashy right whatever I'll minimize it but I wanted to show you that I that this this build will allow you to video edit and audio edit do all of that no problem the 8 cores and the CPU are more than plenty for what you need to do video editing wise now it's nothing like an i7 or Xeon speaking of which I have a xeon build on the way it will be here when i moved back to florida over the weekend so - stay tuned for that but in in this regard i had a problem because this computer stopped working on me two days ago and this was after I had already benched it against the 6100 and I thought that the overclock was stable now the aleph was hard to do it was hard to get it to 4.4 and that's like that that's uncommon because most FX processors will get to 4.0 4.4 and no problem like you really don't have to change much of anything at all in some cases they don't have to change the voltage I think 1.3 5 or 1 point 4 volts some of them kind of vary but the stock voltage out of the box is usually good enough for a 4 point 4 gigahertz overclock and so when I overclocked it for the sake of the benchmarks 24.4 from its I think it turbos to 4 point 2 yeah turbos to 4 point 2 so it's already doing that on its own out of the box so when extra 200 megahertz really isn't going to stress it all that much right and that's what I expected but it was it was actually quite troublesome to get it to 4 point for the computer was quite unstable and I was using a very good cool I used the x31 cracking from NZXT which I used to cool my Center K before I purchased my x60 coolant 280 millimeter ad which is in that PC currently but I expected the x31 Akula just find it was having trouble doing so and I wasn't sure whether to blame the the water cooler and that was that was gonna be really tough for me because the water cooler was actually a very good cooler or just to blame the processor and just you know striking out on the silicon lottery deal so I looked further into the issue and this I especially further into it after the computer crashed on me and would not turn back on I should clarify okay so I turned the computer on this was two days ago after I'd already benchmarked everything and I would get so I would get a response from the tower itself the LEDs would turn on the CPU fan would act strange it would turn on and then it would stop turning in an attempt to turn a few times I have some clips of that that you're seeing right now but it would behave erratically like that and the most noticeable and most troublesome part about this was the fact that I wasn't getting any feed to the monitor whatsoever and so that's what I want to talk about in this video very briefly as are the steps that I went through to fix the issue and it wasn't actually many steps at all and and that's what I kind of want it I guess pass along to you if you don't already know about this little step here because it could save you a lot of time in the long run because I can I can imagine a lot of people putting together PC for the first time and then having this problem not having any signal being sent to the monitor and then just arming everything just returning it all back to the vendor back to Newegg back to Amazon you know having to pay for that return shipping which I find to be quite ridiculous and then waiting all over again for new parts to arrive and crossing your fingers hoping that the same problem doesn't arise again so to fix this issue for a lot of you I think this is this is something that's it's good to know and I'm sure a lot of you do know this and I'm sure I'm just preaching to the choir here but I would like to tell you what I did to fix the issue so I wasn't getting any signal to the monitor right but I was getting a response from the computer so the first thing I did was turn the computer off and I am plugged the computer and I held the power button down with the computer completely unplugged from everything this this drains a lot of the extra juice that's stored in the capacitors flushes all it out so the computer is completely dead or almost completely dead so you can start messing with stuff on the PCB without worrying about shorting things that are getting shocked or whatever so with all that finished up the first thing I decided to do was take out the graphics card I took that out and kind of check make sure everything was okay there the graphics card in this in the case of this build is is crucial because there are no integrated graphics on the FX 8300 built into the motherboard but this one does not this is a gigabyte 990 FX board but it does not have integrated graphics on the board so because of that a graphics card is vital without a graphics card you won't have anything to plug your computer into I mean there are literally I know you can't see here but there are no there are no device output so no video outputs on the on the actual rear i/o so you have to have a graphics card there so the first thing I did was take out the graphics card kind of double-check make sure there weren't anything weren't weren't things that were I guess noticeably wrong with the card you check the back of the PCB make sure that you don't have any fried resistors or transistors or any of that stuff transistors but just things you can tell that don't look right and I did notice that the the BIOS which was set to slave and I switched that back to to the master slave and master that's old stuff that's old school we're talking like back in the IDE eras of hard disk drives and CD drives and whatnot but I switched that back to master now it was working fine and slave before so I I'm not sure that if that changed anything at all but it should have been in master because there's only one of them there and that's the main BIOS for the graphics card I believe so I switched that back to master but that's not really what fixed the issue because like I said it was like that beforehand it was in slayin and it worked just fine so I kept the graphics card out and then the second thing that I did which alternate ly end up fixing the issue was clearing my CMOS now the CMOS or CMOS whatever you have II won't call it CMOS K that is something that you want to reset if you if you want to basically wipe your bios I guess is the easy way to say it so you clear your CMOS when you want your BIOS settings completely restored back to default so let's say that you're overclocking your graphics card and what they do you end up pushing I don't know too high of a frequency with not enough voltage so your pyou isn't barely even booting up I mean your your PC is turning on and it's turning off right away there's nowhere near enough voltage to sustain that frequency and it keeps pooping out on you over and over and over again just keep shutting off instantaneously well there's not much you can do there in terms of hardware replacement right I mean you can replace everything but that's completely pointless and I can see how in those situations people would freak out ended up sending everything back just because they don't know what to do next and this is why I think this video is important because the very simple thing that you can do if you have done something incorrectly within your BIOS is clear CMOS nice clear musi most completely wipes all of your previous BIOS settings back to stock so the way that you attained your motherboard and plugged it in for the first time and jumped into your BIOS oh that's how it will look when your CMOS is cleared so that's what I did now I didn't find the jumper that usually you can remove a jumper from the far right two prongs to the to the far left two prongs and then kind of cycle through do a couple power cycles and it'll wipe your your BIOS clean then but it didn't I didn't I didn't find that I didn't find the actual jumpers to switch over so I ended up removing the battery now in this particular case I end up having to power the PC back on let it do its whole boot loop thing that it kept doing without sending signal to the monitor and I I turned off the PC unplugged it but I didn't drain all the power out of the capacitors that's important because once you hold that button down that power button on the top of the PC you've completely wiped out all the juice that's stored in the capacitor especially those capacitors that are very close to the BIOS chip and when you don't have power running the BIOS chip with the battery remove or with the CMOS jumper switch to the reset position your BIOS will not reset and nothing will happen at all so it's important to have that extra juice stored in there and that's why they recommend immediately after turning off your powers now after trying off your PC either pulling out the battery or switching the jumpers and then once that happens you want to sit for about 10 or 15 minutes the recommended dose of time wait that 10 or 15 minutes for the PC to completely cycle through and reset your CMOS and that's going to completely wipe your BIOS clean it won't get rid of your BIOS usually your BIOS will still be there as long as you're not Q flashing or anything like that so that it's completely safe process but just note that when you do this all of your previous BIOS settings will be completely reset to stock so all of your overclock settings all of your voltage settings your your boot order all of that will be completely restored so once you do clear this and you either switch the jumper back to the normal position or reinsert the battery and then power back on your PC everything's going to be reset so I recommend going back into your BIOS and changing the things that you know aren't going to affect your PC's performance like the boot order of Drive devices so you want to make sure that your OS is on the top of the boot list a few other things you might want to change like your fan speed stuff like that when it comes to overclocking you want to be especially sensitive for that because that's likely what caused the computer to not want to boot in the first place so I recommend keeping that as stock and keeping you know keeping that equal to what it was out of the box to ensure that that was the problem and that was my problem the computer booted up just fine after I reinserted the battery after 15 minutes or so I was actually more like 5 in my case but you're supposed to wait 10 to 15 minutes most of the time so what the scene was cleared the computer booted up just fine I ended up overclocking again back to what I was at originally 4.4 if you're thinking Greg you're going to run into the same problem again and I probably will but until that day comes I think I'm gonna try to keep it here so that's what I wanted this video to be about I wanted you to see the steps that I ran through the very simple steps and very few steps that were required to fix the issue so that's what I recommend doing first and foremost a few computers not sending a signal to your monitor especially clear CMOS first off that that could that I guarantee you 50% of all cases that's the problem the other 50% being Hardware related issues which are an entirely different nightmare but apart from that let me know what you think I want to hear from you I want to hear about your stories about the different centers you've come across when you've dealt with pcs maybe ones that you've built or that you purchase pre-built what you encountered what kind of problems you had or thought you had and what you did to fix the issues I think that would be nice for other people to see who might be going through the same experiences currently if you like this video in the style format I've kind of continued this laid-back experience at least until I moved back to Florida when I have my my new studio completely set up and ready to go be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you feel that way if you feel good about it if you don't like the video format you didn't like the topic at hand give it a thumbs down and tell me specifically what you didn't like in the comments below be sure to click the subscribe button having already stay tuned we have many many cool things planned for the channel over the summer so stay tuned for that 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