DID I FRY MY DURON???

[Haervii]

I've made some mistakes with computers, but this one is the worst. I did the pencil trick on a SocketA, and it messsed up. x8 and x8.5 would report as 700 and 750 Mhz respectively. x9 worked, but it wouldn't boot into windows. Soitried upping the voltage idiotically to 1.425v with x9. Well, it hasn't gotten anywhere since. Can't get into BIOS or anytrhing. Am I screwed? Please say I can still do something!! i don't want a CPU keychain!!!!

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I highly doubt you fried your cpu with that very low voltage. Just unlock it again and it should work properly.

 

[toph99]

you 'upped' it to 1.42? default voltage is 1.65V 😉 what you did was set a multiplier too high for it to boot with such a low voltage. you need to reset your CMOS

 

[Haervii]

What a relief! However, will clearing the CMOS delete special hard drive stettings?

 

[Haervii]

What a relief! However, will clearing the CMOS delete special hard drive stettings?

 

[Nighthawk69]

Special HD settings? It should all auto-detect. If you look in your mobo manual you should see info about restetting the CMOS.. I believe it involves a jumper setting. You should try holding down 'Insert' as you switch the computer power on first tho and that sets everything to defaults.

Hope that helps,

 

[mrchan]

yeah, you'll have to redo all your bios settings, including your IDE ones, it will prompt you to after the first boot.

 

[cpars]

LOL, I have had my tbirds and durons up to 1.95 and not fried one yet, I have however fried a couple of abit boards with the voltage mod:|
Also with the abit boards if it won't boot just pull the plug a time or two and they will reset to default (mine always have).