Serious Computer Mess Up

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A few days ago I was messing about in my BIOS as it was my first time overclocking. I changed some numbers, restarted, ran some stress tests and all was fine. So I went back into bios, changed the numbers again and restarted. I've never experienced such a slow boot up in my life, it was crazy.

I've reset my bios around 5 times. I've removed my RAM and placed one in at a time in three different slots and still stupidly slow boot times. In the bios my memory is saying 2048mb which is correct so I can't see it's a problem with that.

So after testing things here and there I decided to try a re-format. So I put the disk in and it took about 20minutes just to go through the load process on the usual blue windows screen. This made me think it can't be my installation of windows is the problem but that it's the hardware. I'm completely lost on what to do, any ideas anyone please?

Thanks.
 
I changed the FSB from 200 to 220 if I remember correctly. Then I think I changed the voltage to 1.65 or something just to see what happened and I had the multiplier at 11x
 
Hmmm, im not sure, I'm not a pro overclocker, but I do know enough to get by, maybe you set your voltage too high and damaged something, but its unlikely for such a small amount of exposure, do you know how much you upped the voltage by?

Jonny
 
I upped the fsb by 5 each time until it wouldn't run so I went to the highest point. So I just plopped the voltage onto 1.65, the lowest option that was there, and to see what happened and change it accordingly - the change never helped.

So what could be damaged? Windows wouldn't load up with a damaged CPU or Mobo would it?
 
Reset the bios. Thats the first thing I would do, to ensure you are on original settings.

Just take the battery out for a few mins and whack it back in.
 
celliott said:
Reset the bios. Thats the first thing I would do, to ensure you are on original settings.

Just take the battery out for a few mins and whack it back in.
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Done it more than once i'm afraid :( No seriously, I am afraid :eek:
 
Everything's back to defaults and auto. Optimized defaults? Doesn't look to be an option there.
 
Asus K8N4-E Motherboard
AMD 64 3200+
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3
GeForce 6800GS PCIe
 
Might have borked your boot sector a little. Try booting off a windows disc into the recovery console and typing /help which will give you a list of commands.

There are a few that might help you, chkdsk \p being the one which normally saves me after I upset my windows install through oc'ing.
 
Have you done any research on google (or other) to find out the highest and lowest voltages your cpu can take are?

This is a strange problem, if you have reset the cmos several times and their is still a problem, and if there is not a software issue, the only conclusion I can come to is damaged hardware.

Anyone else got any opinions :confused:

Jonny
 
Zefan said:
There are a few that might help you, chkdsk \p being the one which normally saves me after I upset my windows install through oc'ing
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Rightio, the check disk is running right now and i'm just waiting to see how it goes. Fingers crossed. :)
 
Make sure it's the one with \p after or something as it won't fix anything otherwise :p took me a while to work that one out :o

There are a couple of others that might help, can't quite recall but I think it's fixmbr and/or something about a bootsector.
 
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