Cry for help

[barnaclebutt]

Well, I come home from a nice jogging session at the track, and lo and behold, my computer has turned itself off. This is a common occurance at my house, because for some reason (California Energy Crisis?) we often have low voltage in our house, resulting in computers shutting off spontaneously. So I turn on my computer, and everything is going fine, the Windows XP loading screen comes up, and then BAM, BSOD. Reboot. I try loading Windows XP normally again, with the same result. Now I was worried. I had just overclocked my computer the night before (not by much, up from a 133 MHz FSB to 140 MHz FSB) and it was running F@H just fine for several hours before I went to bed, at around 46 degrees celsius. So anyways, I went into the BIOS and checked the temperatures (they looked OK) and set my system back to a 133 MHz FSB/33 MHz PCI. I then tried booting into the Last Known Good Configuration (or whatever its called), and again got the wonderful BSOD. I went back into the BIOS, rechecked temperatures (again, they were OK), and set my RDRAM:FSB multiplier down to 3x (from 4x), because I thought maybe my memory was being bitchy. I tried booting into safe mode, again the BSOD. Eventually after having rebooted a bunch of times, I powered it on and the monitor didn't turn on! The fans spun, the HDDs spun, the CD-ROM spun, but nothing on the monitor, and no POST beep... so now I'm thouroughly worried that maybe my BIOS meddling had damaged my computer. It's either that or somehow the low voltage is not letting my computer start up (but it's never done that before). The low voltage light on my surge protector is still blinking...

So anyways, I'm really worried, so if you guys can help at all that would be awesome. Otherwise i'm probably SOL.


Here are the specs of my system:
P4 2.26 GHz
Asus P4T533-C
Kingston 512 MB PC-1066 RDRAM
Antec 430W PSU
Geforce 2 GTS
Western Digital 80GB 8MB cache

and I overclocked it to 2.38 GHz last night, 140 FSB/35 PCI, 1120 MHz RDRAM, kept it at 1.5 Vcore, under full load it was about 46 degrees celcius and stable.

Hopefully I didn't kill anything.............

 

[barnaclebutt]

bump?

 

[wfbberzerker]

do you have any other memory sitting around that you could try using?
its possible your memory got screwed up with the power fluctuations.

also, its possible your installition of xp got screwed up when the power got shut off.


in the future (if you get this problem solved), you should pick up an uninterruptable power supply from someone like APC.

 

[barnaclebutt]

No, my household isn't a big fan of rambus... I don't know where i'm gonna find two sticks... but if I remove my sticks of RDRAM and it gives error beeps (right now it's not giving any beeps), then it's probably that, right?

That's possible about XP, but why would it prevent my computer from giving the POST beep and from displaying anything on the monitor (the monitor just stays in that power-saving mode where the screen is black and the power light blinks).


Yeah, I'm gonna buy a BackUPS Pro or something, if I can find one for cheap =/

 

[Yomama21]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker


in the future (if you get this problem solved), you should pick up an uninterruptable power supply from someone like APC.

I completely agree. If you're having power issues, then a good ($99+) UPS can save you from future grief.

As for your problem what I always tell people with boot problems, take out everything and just try the basics (processor, memory, video card). Unplug everything not needed to p.o.s.t., then add one component at a time until you find your problem. If you're still getting post errors then start checking cmos settings.

 

[Yomama21]

I have seen bad memory cause video problems. I would check and recheck the way your memory is setup. How many sticks are you using? If 2 remove one of them. Try different slots, I'm not sure if they need to be in the first slot to work correctly or not.

 

[wyvrn]

UPS

UPS

and

UPS