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?
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
==================================
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?