Help..overclocking went wrong

Angus02

Angus02

Angus02

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Until tonight I had a happily running 6600 / Bad axe 2 combo.

But

Whilst trying to get it to pass orthos as 3.6 I read about an item that should
be disabled in the maintance Bios.

So I moved the jumper changed said item saved and came out - reset
jumper to normal and.....nothing it wont post.

I get all the fans spin but No signal / No USB keyboard / Mouse lights and
no HD light - which was always on with the older BIOS I am using.

If I disconect the monitor I get the no signal message up - plug it back and I
get a blank screen.

If I move the jumper again it still wont let me back in the maintance Bios.

A bit stumped now...

I have plugged keyboard / mouse into my old system and both are fine.



Anyone got any ideas / suggestions



Thanks
 
Try unplugging it from the mains and removing the battery for 15 mins.
Then reboot.If fails remove everything rebuild and try again if that fails
it is beyond any idea i have.
 
I know that feeling. Its that sinking sick to your stomach feeling, that you realise you've may have just broken the one thing you love the most. The trick is not to panic (hard I know).

Dont try a rebuild just yet, he is right it may fix the problem, but you may find it comes back so you need to know what the problem might be.

Now if the fans are coming on then you are failing your POST, which since you build your own PC I will ashume you know what it is.

My way is uplug it all apart from the graphics, cpu, ram, mobo, monitor, mouse and keyboard they see if the bios appears. If it does plug the HDD back in and try get to windows. Then plug the rest in one at a time checking it still gets to bios each time.

I shorted out my psu once by connecting my temporary floppy drive (for sata installation purposes) incorrectly. it drove me nuts, but when I finally calmed down and applied some method to my fault finding it all ran smoothly.

Main advise is take it easy and dont jump to conclusions, find a way of eliminating what you think might be causing the problem. once its out of the way try somthing else.
 
Thanks for the help


Going to try the following

1.Take out Battery - and try again.

2. Recover the Bios through a floppy

3. Just thinkin I remember reading a post about having to put in lower rated
memory to kick start it !! - but the origional ones had no issues at
the time of the build unless they get used to running at 2.0+.


I was nearly at my target overclock at 3.6 now this...going to be a very
grumpy man today.


Fingers crossed.
 
Well all working again :D

Was the RAM issue after all

- took 1 stick out posted no problems

- adjusted RAM volts to 2.2 and put the other one in

- booted no problems


As they say every day's a learning day.


Need to get this thing clocked again :eek:


Thank's for the reply's
 
Angus02 said:
lol

The most annoying thing was my BIOS did not even have the thing I was
looking to disable - that came in a more recent BIOS.


:mad:
Click to expand...
lol

And yes, nice to see the resolution for future refence :)
 
Glad you pulled through, but I knew you would, because I could clearly see from your first post that you were in "oh crap ive broke it" mode and just needed to relax and look at it objectively.
 
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