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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rl'Halsinor" data-source="post: 2870131" data-attributes="member: 19772">Two nights ago we had severe lightning storms. I had already lost one major electronic item in the house from the last one and so I decided to unplug the surge protector from the socket. Yes, I had completely shut down my machine first. Since the storms were to last all night into the day it wasn't until about twelve hours later that I plugged it back in. I turned on the PC and it hung at the very first screen. I tried several times to restart but it kept hanging at the very first page -- the one with the logo; it wouldn't even get to the first Phoenix Award screen. The POST said 49 but there was no beeps at all.According to the Manual POST 49 means "Calciluate total memory by testing the last double word of each 64k page." I haven't a clue what this means.I was able to get into the BIOS and applied the default settings to see if that would help. I have yet to overclock so there are no issues there nor have I messed with the BIOS previously. Until today it has always booted to Windows.After entering the default settings it finally booted into Windows but the Logo screen was strange as it was smaller, slightly shifted to the right, and the top of the same page showed at the bottom. The computer then was working fine otherwise.I shut down the computer and started it up again the next day only to have it hang at the logo screen again. This time no strange shifts of screen as it took up the entire screen which is the normAgain, I made sure this computer was fully shut off before I unplugged the cord. Does this sound like a CMOS battery issue? Thanks in advance.</blockquote>

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