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
 
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?
 
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
 
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. :)
 
Zefan said:
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
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Does it matter if I used / instead of \? Just to make 100% sure :rolleyes:
 
Zefan said:
I really can't remember, but it will just tell you off with an "unknown command" message if you get it wrong.
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Rightio, well it's at 49% so I guess I did it correct, it's performing additional recovery or something it said :rolleyes:
 
Okay! After doing a chkdsk /p and a chkdsk /r it has FIXED! absolutely nothing... Still stupidly slow loadup times and i'm left to think that my CPU has died. After waiting about an hour for it to boot up I managed to get to the task manager and it's a constant 100% CPU usage. But a computer wouldn't run without a CPU would it..?
 
Formatted my computer last night, installed windows whilst out and I came back to a super slow computer still. It's a brand spanking new installation, I did the long format and all went fine. It's an authentic Windows also and my computer shouldn't be slow when opening the start menu... All the BIOS is definately at defaults. Possibly the HD has started to go slightly? In the Control Panel, Systems, it comes up with AMD 64 3200+, which is correct, and 2gig of RAM which is correct so I can't see how the CPU, Mobo, RAM or Graphics card can be damaged.

Starting to get seriously frustrated now as I can't see how it still cannot be working. So far it's not the CPU, the RAM, the MOBO, the GFX or the software installed so there can only be a few things remaining. The hard-drive is all I can think of.
 
PARUK said:
Hmm... how the did the actual installation go? Was it way slow or fairly normal?
[Edit - just saw that you did the install while out, so I guess that question can't be answered - still, try the following...]

Either way, check Device Manager to make sure there are no surprises there, then have a quick scan through the System event log (run "eventvwr.msc" then click System in the left hand tree). Sometimes the sys event log carries warnings or errors from drivers that can give you a clue as to what's going wrong.
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I did catch the start of the install to go through some of the setup and well, it was as slow as a fart.
 
CrazyMonkey said:
Lol my farts are pretty fast, but it seems like borked Hardware if its all at default fresh install. after the fresh install is CPU usage still showing 100%? if it is i would say CPU is gone :(
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Sure is, I guess that's be the problem :)
 
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