I was on my desktop during a thunderstorm (my hindsight tells me this was a bad move) when my computer shut down. It seemed to restart, fans/lights turned on, but nothing appeared on my screen. I took a trip to the store and bought a new power supply and installed it. Same as before, lights and fans but nothing on the screen. I was about to give up and return the new power supply but I thought I should give it one more go. This time I plugged my monitor into my mobo's vga instead of my graphics card's dvi and, to my surprise, I got to the BIOS screen. The screen said CMOS settings have been changed, F1 to continue, delete to enter settings. My keyboard was not responding so I restarted.
I can't seem to get back to the BIOS screen. I am back at square one with running lights/fans but no picture on my monitor.
Some things I have tried:
-new power supply
-different configs of memory
-some old memory not involved in the thunderstorm
-all vga/dvi ports available
-removed graphics card
Does this sound like a fried mobo? Fried processor? Is it possible for a mobo to be partially fried, allowing for one partially successful boot?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Also, for the love of all that's holy, buy a surge protector.