I have created multiple posts before but I am now creating another one since everyone stopped responding to me the last time. I am still having the blank screen crash. Its usually a black blank screen when gaming or watching a video and a blank white screen sometimes occurs in windows. The windows crashes are much less common but still do occur from time to time. I have determined it is not the video card since it crashes even in VGA mode/safe mode, etc and even in the BIOS. I know it is NOT overheating so please dont give be that typical excuse that everyone likes to use. I know it is a hardware issue with the motherboard and I am most likely screwed.
I updated the VBIOS and BIOS a while back to play Black Ops 2 with the latest drivers without getting the GSOD. I have tried multiple video card drivers which all result in this blank screen of death. Sometimes it is a pull the plug crash where the whole thing is off in 1 sec like I just lost power. Other times it is a crash to a black screen and then slowly powers down. Its not overheating cus this usually happens within 5 minutes of use.
I have noticed that my motherboard / BIOS is resetting my system clock to pacific time upon every reboot. I live on the East Coast and thus this is the wrong time. I read online that this may be a dead CMOS battery that I need to replace on the motherboard. Are the rest of my crashes related to this battery being dead as well? Or do I still need to physically replace the whole motherboard. And also is there a way to do a software re-set or re-flash of the motherboard/BIOS respectively that I could try before having to buy a whole new one?
Any help or comments are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
CATTER