On 05/08/2016 03:11 PM, Sam wrote:

I have an older Asus Model P6X58D-E mobo.

Over the last few weeks, the PC would randomly lock up when doing normal things eg. browsing, working etc.

Sometimes it would be boot properly (go through the normal black bios text screen) other times I would have to reset it several times by pressing the reset or do a hard reset and hold it for 10 seconds. Sometimes, the boot process would stop part way like just before the USB controllers prompt other times before the CD rom prompt.

Just today it locked up again and now I can't boot at all. I see the PC tower's hard drive buttons working but not display.

I am thinking...rather hoping this might be the fault of the video card? However, I thought you can still boot into the bios without having a video card. Is that not correct?

Any suggestions on troubleshooting would be appreciated. I don't want to ditch this mobo, RAM, and CPU if I can help it.

Any beeps as it tries to boot? I think there's a fairly standard (or
maybe it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer) "code": the pattern
of beeps indicates where the problem lies.

How are you going to tell how far the boot process went if you don't
have a working video card?

What you could try is clearing the CMOS, which is exceptionally easy on
that motherboard: press the little button that is situated on the back
panel between the keyboard and mouse connectors and the blue USB3
connectors.

It's also possible that the CMOS battery needs to be replaced,

You can download the manual he


http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...D-E_manual.zip

Perce