PC will not boot after overclock... :(

nkata said:
This board has a radeon HD3000 series onboard??

Leave graphics card out and just use one stick of ram, reboot.
Try each ram stick in each slot, 4 operations.

If you can get to bios then select default. and start over.

maybe you have stressed both the ram and the graphics card unless you have ensured,

a) the PCIe stayed close to 100MHz
b) the ram multiplier together with the bus clock did not exceed the ram specifications.

andy.
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Afraid Ive already attempted this more than several times lol :mad:
 
mast3r said:
Leave the CMOS battery OUT and the Clear CMOS Header on Clear, then Power on the computer for a second, pull power back out, hit the power on button to release any power stored in the PSU, leave it for 10 mins, leave CMOS batt out, Clear CMOS jumper/header back to norm and see if it will boot.
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No results unfortunately.
 
Well I detached the CPU from the motherboard along with everything else with just the PSU connected to it. Started up and no beep.. this motherboard seems to not want to give in :\ ... Opinion(s)?
 
hate it when this thing happens gone are the days where you did a bad overclock then when you reboot you get a nice message saying overclock failed due to bad voltages blah blah go into the bios and fix my ass.

My sandybridge is sitting at stock atm after spending a couple hours last night cause it wouldn't boot but luckily for me it was as quick as taking power cable out pulling components out taking cmos battery out and left it for 30 minutes then put battery in powered up and it beeped like mad put one stick of ram in beeped put graphics card in and got the nice single beep to say im working then put last stick of ram in and still working.
 
A friend kindly brough his PC over today so I could do some testing.. sadly I couldn't test my CPU as he doesn't have the same socket but I was able to test my GPU & RAM. Infact I'm going to just leave my battery out for a few minutes maybe hours then chuck it back in later... you never know the it might decide to beep again.

Results

RAM
First I took his RAM out for mine, booted up... Yay, it actually beeped and got to desktop! Did a quick crucial.com scan and it told me 4GB DDR-2 (800Mhz) installed :) To be honest I was surprised it worked... I accidently dropped one of the RAM peices into the case.. Oh well no complaints.

GPU
First, I uninstalled his drivers, of course I had permission! .. powered down took out his & put in mine.. Started... all seemed fine. Desktop was all out of tune but you get that when no drivers are installed. To be sure I went ahead and downloaded them and rebooted and again all was fine.

Conclusion: Me = :D (Happy). Now it just leaves me to wonder about the CPU but I'm pretty positive that the motherboard is the cause... But never the less atleast I know my GPU & RAM are healthy.

Would just like to thank all for all for your kind replies. I'll keep the thread open as of course I have a new motherboard on the way from Amazon. So I will keep you updated as of when it arrives and the success after installing it. Infact I won't be too disheartened if the CPU is dead it means I have an excuse to pull out my wallet for a six core CPU (The new motherboard supports up to six cores :) ).
 
i have a 550BE my self, and in my experiance you just cant leave it on auto voltages when overclocking. just manualy entre the stock voltage and then overclock slowly. the auto voltage seams to ramp the voltages up a lot for each step.

you said when u first got it you jumped it straght up to 4ghz, the volages may have been to much for the motherboreds likings and got damaged then, so when u put it back up to 4ghz this time it pushed the motherbored a litle to far, and caused it to die

its the only thing i could assume has happend, and would seam quite logical, your temps of your CPU are about right so it aint your CPU, BE550 hardly produce heat.
 
Thank's for that reply Stretched. It's kinda put my mind at ease a little. Just goes to show, if you've never done it before.. bad things can happens. I admit I'm new to OC .. I assumed it would be easy .. I did very little research on it & look where it got me. I was proud to actually get it stable at 3.60Ghz on auto though. I ran prime95 an entire night without an noticeable instability issues.

With that said, I think I'll be scared to even go near the BIOS next time round. But this time I'll be extra careful. Again, thank's a lot.
 
dont put your self down, my 550BE i havent managed to get stable at 3.7Ghz, most only stay stable at 3.8Ghz, so you didnt do to bad.

just research abit into whats safe and not, open a thread in the OC section for advice on OCing that CPU when you get your new board.

i think if u give it a try and take everything into account you could probly get a safe stable CPU at 3.9Ghz dont be shy just make sure that you do things slowly and surely
 
I will do next time, Ive done some research & it seems the new board will also be capable of unlocking 2 cores. I may have to think about doing that, assuming the CPU is actually still alive lol. Should receive the board in the next 2-3 working days. Lets just say my laptop is a life saver at the moment. Ive got a shed load of work to get done this week.
 
Motherboard arrived today. Ive installed it etc and have more problems, probably not major & may be easy to fix but I can't work it out. First I'll go from beginning to end on the process of changing the boards.

Firstly, I laid the new board out onto an antistatic mat, I then took the RAM out and into the new board, I took the cooler off the CPU and then put the CPU into the new motherboard.

I then placed the new motherboard into the case and screwed it in. After doing this I then went ahead and installed the Coolit Eco pump onto the CPU. After securing the pump onto the CPU I then went ahead and installed the graphics card. I then connected all my SATA, PSU etc etc.

The moment of truth was about to come.. I plugged in all my peripherals and the power cord.. pressed the on button and nothing booted. I then noticed that I had no placed a cable leading from the switch in, It was slightly awkward as I had to read the manual at this point to find where to plug it in. Connecting the Coolit ECO onto the motherboard was very frustrating as the "SYS FAN" was at the bottom of the board so I had to carefully stretch it along with detaching the pump again and turning it around so I was able to make the lead long enough to reach the connector.

Anyways, this time it booted.. It went to POST and then went straight onto the Windows Loading Logo (Win7) then all of a sudden the system just restarted and it would begin looping this sequence, I hope this makes sense.. I am kinda rush typing this as I am desperate to fix it as soon as possible.

I attempted to reformat the computer as suggested but the computer just cut out as if someone just yanked the power cable out.
 
Check the temps in BIOS. You'll need a reformat I imagine, I sometimes do changing boards. Set "Disable automatic restart on system failure", what BSoD do you get?

Cutting's not a good sign though, check the fan header speeds and CPU warning tempuratures. Were you careful not to leave any standoffs under the new board?
 
Well, I just found out where the other lead that came from my switch goes and so far It's not cut out at the point where it cut out last time. But is still restarting when I try to boot windows.

Oh & sorry If I'm not making any sense.. I'm rush typing.. I'm just nervous to fix this.
 
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