Another "cpu init" problem

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I was playing around with the overclock settings in bios for all the major commonents early a few mornings ago and afterwards my pc wouldn't do anything.

It's plugged in and when I turned it on all the fans started, leds lit up and then it cuts out. I was toying with the idea that my 550watt psu was too weak to cope as it just shuts down.

I disconnected all non essential parts with no success. I reroved the 4 pin eatx 12v connector and for some reason the pc starts up and stays on. Nothing loads from bios, the harddrive and nothing appears on the vdu. Both of the standby and restart buttons (board and case) work to turn on but not off.


All the leds on the board are showing crazy mode. (need to double check again, explain in a bit)


Best thing to do is to turn the bios back to the original settings.

Saying this I've turned the clr cmos switch on and off, held the I/O on the back during startup holding delete, unplugged and discharged and also removed the battery for 30 or so minutes.

I know some boards require longer so I'm leaving it overnight with the plug out too.

I think it should be fine if I can wipe the bios memory and seems like the only way that it will happen is if I bleed it dry.


Anyway, it's a little old but here's the specs:

intel e8500
Rampage Formula (Republic Gamers Edition)
4x 2gb OCZ 800mhz
2x 1gb ati radeon hd4850's
and a colorsit 550 watt psu

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The above was posted a few days ago on another forum, but since then nothing I tried had worked.

After putting the battery back in the same errors occoured. Took it back out yesterday, leaving it another 24 hours as the bios didn't go back, for some reason there was still some power in there.

The "cpu init" error is quite common but sometimes the process is easy to correct. I know someone via youtube who had the same problem but his cpu led was off, obviously his was knacked, sure mine was on.

Either way I need to clear the bios.

Any ideas?
 
Just have the motherboard, cpu, 1 stick of ram, and 1 graphics card all powered up, before turning it on, clear the CMOS and see if you can get some output on screen, with any luck able to get into the bios.

though my instinct would be that "cheap" psu trying to power 2 x 1gig 4850's tbh
 
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mine did that btw its supposed to say that no idea why, doesi t boot if not... than do what above said.

still no life you could trick it into beeping for you that way you know the mobo is alive as it kicked ya in the nose for it :D I did my god my ears hurt after .....>_> than I flashed it
 
I'll give it a go on saturday, playing with my old one for the mo updating everything.

In which way would you consider clearing the cmos?
 
no it don't clear the BIOS as in get rid of it only settings like date time, overclock all that stuff.

its just in case it was a dodgy overclock or dodgy settings
 
I thought I'd just come back and say what has happened. Basically I couldn't try anything else. Where the blue screen of death is for windows, cpu init is the same for the motherboard.

I'm rma'ing the board back to the supplier and after they agree that it's fuffed I'll get credited back.

They say that the cpu might actually be fine, and it's just the board that's failed but I'm not too sure. Either way I'll wait and try in the replacement, if not I'll send that back to intell also.

Until then I'm going after an amd based pc lol

Thanks for your feed back
 
they are troublesome, mine refused to jump to life when I first got mine, a bit of 780chipset sydrom I take it not as bad through :P

nice chice with AMD....unless you have the cpu than it will put the costs up even more, you could always get refunded for the rampage and get a gigabyte. X48
 
the CPU INIT error could mean that the Ram isn't getting enough Voltage and takes it of the CPU, which then dosn't get enough Voltage to Initilise, i read it on the Tinternet
 
I'm pretty sure it's a board failure and a cpu burnout.

I reinstalled everything into an antec 1200 with an ocz 850watt psu but the board was collected earlier with some dodgy laptop ram I got as well.
 
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