Just got myself an AMD Phenom II X6, some bargainus 4GB OCZ DDR3 1600 RAM from OCUK and a new MSI 880GMA E45 board from elsewhere... Put it all together and installed 7
All going well, low temps at stock (20s idle and high 40s on load) so I thought I'd have a go at clocking it. Pushed it up slowly to 3.5GHz (non turbo) with a tiny voltage bump and all of a sudden the PC just shut off while Prime95 testing. No probs I thought, may need some more juice. Alas, no power at all. No fans, LEDs or anything else. My PSU is getting on a bit (a Coolermaster iGreen 600w) so I suspected it may have bitten the dust. It has a status LED on the back which was solid red - apparently indicating a fault/short. First thing i tried was removing everything down to one stick of RAM and 1 hard drive. Still no joy. Today I went and picked up an OCZ Mod Extreme 700w PSU (for a rip off price but hey ho
) and still no joy. Done the ususal CMOS reset/battery out
Going to take it out of my Mini P180 and hook it up on my desk in the morning. Have had a board failure every year for 4 years on the trot (using different bits)
Anything else to try before packing it up for RMA?
All going well, low temps at stock (20s idle and high 40s on load) so I thought I'd have a go at clocking it. Pushed it up slowly to 3.5GHz (non turbo) with a tiny voltage bump and all of a sudden the PC just shut off while Prime95 testing. No probs I thought, may need some more juice. Alas, no power at all. No fans, LEDs or anything else. My PSU is getting on a bit (a Coolermaster iGreen 600w) so I suspected it may have bitten the dust. It has a status LED on the back which was solid red - apparently indicating a fault/short. First thing i tried was removing everything down to one stick of RAM and 1 hard drive. Still no joy. Today I went and picked up an OCZ Mod Extreme 700w PSU (for a rip off price but hey ho
) and still no joy. Done the ususal CMOS reset/battery outGoing to take it out of my Mini P180 and hook it up on my desk in the morning. Have had a board failure every year for 4 years on the trot (using different bits)
Anything else to try before packing it up for RMA?