Urgent fault finding help needed (please)

[Buckster]

oh dear - my PC is toast in some way !

been fiddling with lower overclocks recently to reduce power used ... so with my Q6600 I was only at a lowly 3.2 gig (used to run it at 3.6) - and relatively low Vcore

well its been perfect, passed hours of Prime95 etc

tonight went for a meal - turned it off ... turned it back on . nada - absolutely nothing ...

turned on and off - still no post

took GFX card out and used CMOS reset - still no post

took battery out - still no post

took all but one stick of RAM out - still no post

took all sticks out - and now mobo does continuous boot - so that part of it seems to be working

took out CPU - and put back in ... still no post

took out GFX card and put in the 4x PCI-E slot

still no post

any ideas please ? I'm so annoyed

Mobo toast (P5B Deluxe)

any clues please.

thanks, Mark.

 

[Buckster]

hi guys thanks for the tips

guess what it was my BALLISTIX !

well I think anyway - one pair of them

going off for RMA - pc now working with the others

CPU is limping a bitnow though ! had to take cooler off and broke one of the pushpins off ! so only on 3 corners .... temps are ok - but it wouldn't boot any higher than 2.6 gig ... Sycthe Mine should be here tomorrow - to sort that out

thanks again,

Mark.

 

[Buckster]

lol !

perhaps if it wasn't at 2am I would have thought the same !

thing is I'd dropped to only 1 stick out of 4 !

who'd of thought that would have been one of the guilty party ! oops!