.... Fried Green Motherboards .....

[delroy]

hey... so i was over clocking right....

i have a duron 1.2 on a 2 year old epox (cant remeber the model k6-something) and i was in the bios optimizing it for faster boot speeds, then when i was done with that i set my clock speed from x12 to x13 so it would run @ 1.3ghz....

it booted fine and it seemed stable enough, so i rebooted to check the temp and it was 51 celceus and that was good, rebooted 2 more times and everything still worked. then all of the sudden i froze, and i immidiatly thought it was either 2 things , my overclock attempt, or my sdram cycle setting that i put on "2" instead of the default 3 ( a tequinique that improves ram performance, but can cause crashes)

so i go back into my bios, and reset it to defaults an but my clock back down to x12 and tried to boot.....
after i get past the bios junk where windows is supposed to show up, there is a blinking cursor in the top left corner.... i was like
"oh fizzle"... so i let it sit there about 5 minutes and it start to load pre windows junk, you know like the stuff that is there a milliasecond before the windows loading page is.... then half way through that its stuck.

what did i fry? in the bios page its still detecting everything (ram,processor) but i have no idea what is going on

if anyone has came across this please shine a lil light on me
thanks boyz

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

try resetting the cmos, it works miracles at times

is the harddrive still being detected?

 

[delroy]

hmm... im pretty sure it is.... could doing any of those things mentioned crash my hard drive?

i hope its not f-ed ... i was planning on formating, but i hope it isnt ruined... ill stick it in another comp to see....

but also when trying to boot with a boot disk, it does the "im gonna take my sweet ass time booting up" routine... so i dont know

is cmos reseting an option in the bios?
how would i go about doing this if otherwise

thanks for help

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

there is usually a jumper by the battery on the motherboard itself

there are a few ways i know of to reset the bios, somtimes they differ for different manufacturers

try looking in the manual, it most likely will say

 

[delroy]

cool ill try that




hope it works


*eep

 

[IdahoB]

If it freezes on booting Windows (or whatever OS) even though the BIOS screen is okay it's still likely to be your overclocking - drop the CPU down again and see what happens. If that works, then try increasing the vcore.

 

[IdahoB]

Apologies - didn't read your post correctly.

I'd also go with the CMOS reset in that case.

 

[delroy]

heh no problem

 

[deerslayer]

Resetting the CMOS should fix it.

One thing about resetting your CMOS, make sure you go in and fix the clock/date settings. I couldn't figure out why my DC project wouldn't work after a failed OC attempt. After I almost lost my progress I realized my date was set to 1999.

Good luck 🙂