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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    The last few times starting my PC up have been smooth, no POSTing issues to report. Thank you again for the help everyone. 😁
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    just finished 2 passes and no errors presented. I'm guessing the RAM needed a reseat or something. Hopefully it won't come back again. Thank you so much for the help, I really appreciate it. :D
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    I just swapped the memory back over and it seems to be booting up just fine now with XMP enabled. gonna fun MemTest all the same. :D
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    I bought the ram in June this year. The kit I have apparently isn't compatible but It's been working fine for the past few months.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    I swapped out my 32GB 3200MHz kit of ram with my original 16GB 2666MHz kit and it booted successfully. Maybe this fairly new kit of RAM has gone bad. It shouldn't have done though.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    I could try that, but I'm worried that if I did try updating the BIOS with the POSTing issues on startup that the motherboard would brick itself during the update process. Also I definitely don't need to worry about warranty as I bought the PC in February 2017.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    According to Speccy I have version 1203 released in late December 2017.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    I successfully changed the battery but unfortunately the problem is still there. :/
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    I'll give it a try tomorrow, thankfully we have a couple of 2032 batteries. Hopefully that will fix it.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    would I still be able to boot successfully if the CMOS battery is going bad? I've never experienced anything like this before.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    hey there, thank you replying so soon. My PC is a PC Specialist PC, It was ordered and built in February 2017. It's been really good to me over the years. barely any problems in the 5+ years I've had it. My specs are below: Case CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 750D FULL TOWER CASE Processor (CPU)...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Failure to POST

    the past couple of days I've had a rather concerning issue with my PC. When turning my PC on the system will fail to POST a couple of times and then on the third attempt it will successfully start. Unfortunately every time this has happened my RAM speeds are reset to 2133MHz and XMP is disabled...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Unable to boot PC "Disk Error- press any key to continue"

    Today I've encountered a problem with my 2 week old PC. I have windows 10 Home edition installed on my Samsung SM961 M.2 NVME SSD. For some reason Windows Explorer would hang on startup. Restarting via task manager only had limited success. after a couple of restarts it eventually came up with a...
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