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nipplefish

nipplefish

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I've been having the worst luck lately. If ANYONE can shed some light on this situation it would be GREATLY appreciated.

Here's the situation:

First, my computer (Athlon 64 3200+, 1gb Geil Ultra PC4000, DFI LANparty nf4-ultra d) was giving me a "USB device not recognized" popup which would not go away no matter how many times i closed it. So I disconnect all my USB devices, and it still would not go away. I reboot, and bam! The computer will not post. It shows the CPU brand but will not display memory, IDE devices, etc. It just sits there.

So i figure, well, my motherboard has gone and fried itself. I was running a pretty heavy overclock on it, but nothing a DFI board shouldn't be able to handle. Oh well, what the hell, Core 2 Duo is coming out soon. I'll just sell off the rest of my hardware and upgrade.

I want to verify that everything works, so I pop my CPU and RAM into my dad's machine (Athlon 64 3000+, 1gb Patriot PC3200, BFGtech nforce4 ultra). It boots up fine. Great. So I swap his CPU and RAM back in and fire it up. Gee whiz, all the sudden his machine is doing the exact same thing as mine. WTF?
 
Two machines. I think that deserves some kind of prize. 😀

Other than that, what do you mean by "doing the same thing as yours?" Popping up the USB device message, or just not posting at all?
 
Stop visciously rubbing your feet into the carpet everytime your going to work on computer parts. The shock you give to hardware does not supercharge them. I'm just joking around. Maybe you haven't been plugging stuff in fully or maybe you haven't been careful enough with static shock.
 
Originally posted by: OvErHeAtInG
Two machines. I think that deserves some kind of prize. 😀

Other than that, what do you mean by "doing the same thing as yours?" Popping up the USB device message, or just not posting at all?
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Not posting. It booted up once, and I rebooted it and it refused to post.

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
Stop visciously rubbing your feet into the carpet everytime your going to work on computer parts. The shock you give to hardware does not supercharge them. I'm just joking around. Maybe you haven't been plugging stuff in fully or maybe you haven't been careful enough with static shock.
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No carpet in the house... I'm pretty sure static isn't the culprit; I touched the bare inside of the case every couple minutes. Besides, I don't think static would have killed my computer, since I didn't touch the inside of it until after it had stopped posting.


On the bright side, his motherboard is still under warranty.
 
I don't think your DFI board is dead if it didn't boot after trying to overclock it high than reset the bios by taking the battery out or the jumper.
 
Originally posted by: w00t
I don't think your DFI board is dead if it didn't boot after trying to overclock it high than reset the bios by taking the battery out or the jumper.
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Already tried resetting the BIOS. I'd been running at 250x10 for several months... it's not like I was tweaking around in the BIOS settings.
 
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