DFI Infinity CMOS issue

[kmS]

So I don't see that many of you have this same board but I'll try posting my problems ne ways. The strangest thing happened when I decided to bring the board back down to stock to check temperatures (w/ O/C they were a bit high hovering in the high 40s at idle) so I went into the BIOS and I returned everything to optimized defaults which set everything back to normal, the voltages, RAM speeds, FSB, etc. etc. So I did a save to CMOS and exit and the computer shut down like before when I would crank something wrong when O/Cing and I would just have to reset the CMOS and try again. Well, it shuts down after about 3 seconds and everything turns off, and then it whirs back into life but I get nothing, no boot screen, nothing. So I cleared the CMOS hoping I had just corrupted the CMOS somehow and that would fix the problem, no luck. Does the same thing, whirs everything to life, powers down after 3 seconds, after a second longer it comes back on, and everything stays on but I don't get a post beep, nothing. I tried to reseat everything that I could, checked all my jumper settings, my PSU is securely plugged in, etc. Do you think that it could be the CMOS battery failing? It says that I should be an error message for that but like I said before, it's all just a blank screen, with all the components on like they should be, I've gotten the similar symptoms before, but only when I've done something really wrong in the CMOS while O/Cing and resetting has always fixed the problem. I just can't boot now, any help would be appreciated I'll give any other info you guys require.

Thanks for all your help

 

[bigjon32]

my infinity dark 965 does weird stuff similar to that, but after i clear the cmos or change things in the bios it generally turns on, off, on, off, then on for real instead of on, off, on for real. i assumed that all of this was the "restart bug" i had heard so much about with the 965 chipset, though, and i dont know if the 975 has the same problem.