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Did I kill my motherboard?

Y

YoungPoodah

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Basically,

I wanted to underclock my computer so I could play WarCraft II again without an instantaneous scroll (which is a pain) so i underclocked the multiplier, got out of the BIOS and then realized that i never unlocked the multiplier on the chip in the first place!

I reset the jumper for the BIOS but well... the power comes on, the fans turn on, but there is no action, the screen never lights up let alone the BIOS coming on screen.

I put in an old 700 MHz. thunderbird just to see what would happen and it beeped, but that's the only time it's beeped in a while. otherwise no sound... just fans and LEDs.

I have a K7T266 PRO2 with an Athlon XP 1600..... anybody have any ideas? :-/

 
I am going to say no the Motherboard s/b fine. Unplug power cord...clear cmos and try again.
"Underclock" - this is a no no when you have previously overclocked your cpu for a while. The reason is when the cpu is burnt in to run at a set higher speed it becomes the new default speed. In "underclocking" you are basically telling the cpu to run at a "NEW" slower speed and the motherboard may not respond. I hope this makes sense and that overclocking is really only for the few serious hard core out there and not the average joe.
 
That's what I was trying, and i still don't know what's wrong. I even tried slipping an index card under the battery for the BIOS (I fixed a computer like that once for a problem like this) but that didn't work either.

I'm about out of ideas.

RMA time?...

 
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