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Evening guys,
Got a few issues, with my ole rig (see sig)
quite simply as of this morning it wont boot, wont even reach the bios screen most times and when it does it just hangs.
So I pulled the rig apart and effectively rebuilt it. To no avail. I'm suspecting it's the mobo as it simply hasn't been able to overclock for some time as it simply won't stick to the fsb i set it (volts etc. would change though). I reset CMOS (took battery out for >10 mins) However with computers being the fickle beasts they are i can't help but think it may be something else.
I would test ram but i simply don't get to any stage where i can run memtest, I will try each stick individually and report back after I've cooked dinner. I doubt it's the GPU's, one or 2 makes no difference and the odds of them both going instantly are somewhat remote.
Surely a HDD fault could not cause this either, Only other thing i can think is PSU but everything fires up (fans, HDDs etc.) when i turn it on so no obvious signs there.
Only other PSU I have is a generic Dell box which i may try (with a spare 7300 i have lying around for graphics). Thing is i don't know if the connections actually match so we'll have to see.
So OcUK any ideas or do you agree with me it looks like motherboard failure?
update: right now we're getting past boot screen with one screen and one gpu but now I get a screen with a column of H's
hmmmm have i botched something here.
Got a few issues, with my ole rig (see sig)
quite simply as of this morning it wont boot, wont even reach the bios screen most times and when it does it just hangs.
So I pulled the rig apart and effectively rebuilt it. To no avail. I'm suspecting it's the mobo as it simply hasn't been able to overclock for some time as it simply won't stick to the fsb i set it (volts etc. would change though). I reset CMOS (took battery out for >10 mins) However with computers being the fickle beasts they are i can't help but think it may be something else.
I would test ram but i simply don't get to any stage where i can run memtest, I will try each stick individually and report back after I've cooked dinner. I doubt it's the GPU's, one or 2 makes no difference and the odds of them both going instantly are somewhat remote.
Surely a HDD fault could not cause this either, Only other thing i can think is PSU but everything fires up (fans, HDDs etc.) when i turn it on so no obvious signs there.
Only other PSU I have is a generic Dell box which i may try (with a spare 7300 i have lying around for graphics). Thing is i don't know if the connections actually match so we'll have to see.
So OcUK any ideas or do you agree with me it looks like motherboard failure?
update: right now we're getting past boot screen with one screen and one gpu but now I get a screen with a column of H's
hmmmm have i botched something here.
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