cant save to cmos

I have built a pc with a ecs pm800 m2 mb, celeron d 2.4 and 512 ddr 3200 400mhz. when I first booted this pc up I tried to configure the bios.
Well everything went well but when I tried to save and exit it just freezes. I hit y and enter and nothing happens and I have to reboot. I have had the suggestion to flash the bios but I cant tell the bios to boot from the floppy to get to the cmd prompt for the flash. I cant do much of anything until I can get to save the configuration. Ever heard of this before? Please help.

 

try seting the bios back to defult.. and then try again.. you will have to look up the jumper config to know what jumper you need to use.. but its not that hard.. and if you cant find anything you can allways take the bat. out.. leave it out for a few.. and put it back in...

 

Have tried moving jumpers and moving them back and removing the batt.. I did not as you said leave the batt. out for a while. Does that make a diff? As far as setting the bios back to default, I have not been able to save any changes so the bios should be factory default.

 

well.. it might be something in the computer that is making it crash... i would take out EVERYTHING other then the video card.. if not on board.. and the ram... unplug everything other then that

 

Nothing but onboard stuff on there. I have even taken the cpu off and put it back. Ram out and back and everything else. I am really stuck. Thanks for your suggestions.

 

i am thinking that the board might have a problem its self.... sounds like you have the same problem i have... but my mobo does not even post... it runs.... but does nothing ... i think my new ram (that was bad) fried my 64bit mobo and maybe my cpu

 

I have considered a chipset problem but am hoping for a better answer. Your problem does not sound good. What do you mean by runs but nothing happens. Do you even get a read on your screen?

 

i mean it runs.. the mobo light turns on .. fans are on .... BUT NOTHING ELSE!!!


not even errors when i take the cmos bat out or the ram out.. it turns on and THAT IS IT

 

Only time I have had that happen to me, I only had one stick of ram in a dual channel system.

 

that mobo is not dual channel

 

No clue other than that. Thanks for your suggestions

 

hey anytime... i have been in school for a long time and have done alot of tech work over the past 5 years..... so i know a little something ... i am about 99% sure that my board is done... but i figured that it never hurt to ask.. thats how i gained most of the things i know...