Don't drink and play in the BIOS

CelerySalad

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Jun 25, 2000
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I have a Cel 2 566, and an Asus P3V4X. My video card is an Elsa Gladiac Geforce 2 GTS 32 MB RAM, and I have 256 MB of RAM. Last night, I'd had a couple of heinekin's, and was surfing the boards, and became disappointed in my 850 Mhz OC, 1.7v, and was convinced that *everyone* was getting 952/112, I threw caution to the wind and set my PC to 112 FSB. Doh! No post.

I reseated everything, panicked by what had happened, still no post. Now for those of you that don't know, Asus put a funky way of resetting the CMOS on this board..you have to short two contact points instead of the handy dandy jumper. I was intoxicated, and showing the first signs of wisdom of the evening, decided against doing that and went to bed.

This morning, I tried it, still no post. Reseat, repeat, still no enchilada. I took my Geforce out, and took out the CMOS battery for 45 minutes. Put in the TNT2 Ultra I had hanging around, and success! I could change my FSB back to a sensible level...but still I had a problem. My Gladiac would not post while in this PC, no matter what the FSB ( and believe me, I reseated it about 20 times). Fearful that I had blazed it by running it's AGP bus, I stuck it in my Athlon PC, and it worked. THEN I took it out and put it in my Celery, lo and behold, it is now fine. I count myself lucky that my system is back to normal, alive and kicking at 850. I think I'm going to leave well enough alone, and be happy that I got 850 out of it :)
 

Ulysses

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Jun 17, 2000
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I say live dangerously - why I'd drink and drive and tweak if I could. hehehehehe :) :) :)

Seriously, while it's scary, I don't think you can do much harm with just a FSB tweak, although recovering can be a pain. Now voltage, that's another thing.

I was once trying to check voltage at two pins for fan speed monitoring and slipped and shorted them, shutting down the system immediatamente. And it wouldn't restart. Later, after a fuse or something cooled down, it did restart and was OK. Except that fan monitor function always reports 0 now.
 

pyr

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Oct 9, 1999
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man I was screwing in a scsi card with the system powered on (wanted to be sure that the board would assign the right IRQ before I screwed it in) and slipped with the screwdriver (swiss army knife actually) and contacted a part of the case and the scsi card. saw some sparks, and the system died. my heart was pounding but the system and card still worked when I hit the power button again...
 

Mickster

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Jun 22, 2000
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hehe,
come on guys,
spend a hun an a half on a cp,or a few hun on a gts,
but NO toolkit??
No wonder i always have work in my field..
(light-heavy duty tech)
i always say,
need a bigger hammer,and it will all work itself out:)