HELP - I've broken something!

Vertigo · 9 Jan 2008 at 20:24

Just been seeing how far I could push my memory. All was going well until I tried 500Mhz FSB. At this point the machine booted but immediately (after about 5 seconds, before any beeps or POST) powered off and then rebooted again in an endless cycle.

No problem I think, just reset the BIOS and all will be well but no joy. I've tried the reset jumper and removing the battery for 20 minutes but it still does the same thing.

I'm now worried I've fried either the memory or the motherboard. I didn't think memory could be fried by high speeds, only voltages, and it would just fail to work at the higher speed. Now I don't know if I've damaged something or if the CMOS is failing to clear for some reason. The mobo is a Gigabyte P35-DS3P which has some dual-bios malarky but I haven't a clue how that works or what it does.

Anyone got any ideas or advice, I'm desperate here

Vertigo · 9 Jan 2008 at 22:34

I'll try over in the general hardware forum I think.

dr. sarf · 9 Jan 2008 at 22:46

Try memtest to eliminate a memory failure.

netby · 9 Jan 2008 at 23:14

I mate

maybe your problem is similar to that one:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17785966&highlight=netby

if you use ballistyx aniway...

if that does not result,maybe your bios is completely borked
in that case only a reflash of the bios( like a "hot flash") or a new programmed bios solve your problem

Cob · 10 Jan 2008 at 02:24

Have you tried it with just one stick?

Bossk128 · 11 Jan 2008 at 17:09

If you've reset the bios, maybe it's defaulted to low mem volts for compatability and safety, yet the SPD is still set for performance. If this is the case, you'll need to change the voltage in the bios back to 2.0 or 2.1 (depending on how many volts your RAM requires).

You might be able to boot into bios with only one stick installed, as previously mentioned. Sometimes this will work even if the voltages are a bit low.

Vertigo · 11 Jan 2008 at 20:30

Thanks for the help guys, got it working in the end by pulling all the HDDs and ODDs and using a single stick of mem