Toastedzergling
Junior Member
The system has been working okay for half a year, the setup is:
Abit VH6T
1.1a Celeron/tualatin running at 1.41GHz, 1.625V, 128FSB
Crucial 256Mb pc133
Yesterday I wanted to add a stick of PNY 512Mb pc133. I took the crucial out and was trying to put the PNY in the same slot, stupid me, the RAM direction was WRONG, It was not snapped in comfortably
Powered on, no post, a BURNING SMELL!
Changed back to crucial, now the system was messed up. It won't post at default 1.1GHz or anything higher than that. After a fresh CMOS reset, it will post at 733Mhz (66X11), and say "CMOS checksum error, defaults loaded", if I press F1 to continue, it can boot up to safe mode or even windows XP but very unstable.
I am postitive the Video card, hard drive and the RAM are okay, searched for burn marks, but didn't find any. Changed RAM to another slot, but no avail
Removed Mobo from case, found two loose screws at the corner of the case, something might get short? When I tried to change RAM, the case was lied down...
Comments? Ideas? Big Thanks!
Abit VH6T
1.1a Celeron/tualatin running at 1.41GHz, 1.625V, 128FSB
Crucial 256Mb pc133
Yesterday I wanted to add a stick of PNY 512Mb pc133. I took the crucial out and was trying to put the PNY in the same slot, stupid me, the RAM direction was WRONG, It was not snapped in comfortably
Powered on, no post, a BURNING SMELL!
Changed back to crucial, now the system was messed up. It won't post at default 1.1GHz or anything higher than that. After a fresh CMOS reset, it will post at 733Mhz (66X11), and say "CMOS checksum error, defaults loaded", if I press F1 to continue, it can boot up to safe mode or even windows XP but very unstable.
I am postitive the Video card, hard drive and the RAM are okay, searched for burn marks, but didn't find any. Changed RAM to another slot, but no avail
Removed Mobo from case, found two loose screws at the corner of the case, something might get short? When I tried to change RAM, the case was lied down...
Comments? Ideas? Big Thanks!
