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Main machine down help needed
I thought I had posted a thread about four hours ago but obviously it did not send.
So quick version my main machine - Ivy Bridge with an Asus P8Z77-V with an i5 3660K 8GB RAM (2400) SSD boot drive NVidia GTX 650Ti card etc running 7 Home.
I started it up today after a very ling break and it booted eventually but in a very strange way into Windows. Now the machine has been acting strange for a while so I decided to run SFC and a chkdsk on it and now all I can get on power up is the screen telling me to go into the BIOS and that the CPU fan has an error and it keeps automatically changing the boot option to the optical drive and not the Windows boot manager or just the SSD which is the only drive I have hooked up at the moment .
I have been in the BIOS - not that I understand it a great deal enough to clock and stuff but everything seemed to be as I left them. I told it to ignore the CPU fan speed because the CPU is obviously running because the cooling rad and cooler head are just warm to the touch.
Have tried setting to the default BIOS settings.
However whatever I have tried like changing fast boot and bits I sort of understand a bit it still boots to that screen telling me to go into the BIOS. RAM is ok I think because I just get the one beep for it likes always.
Any ideas greatly appreciated because I am at a loss as to what to try and the only option it seems is to clean install and I do have a lot of stuff on this machine plus accessing a replacement baord would be about impossible as I can imagine as also with that CPU.