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Help, computer won't post!

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Quad

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i just built this comp yesterday, and it was working fine the whole day. so i'm sure the heatsink is on properly.

it's a tbird 900 on an asus a7v133

this morning when my dad turned it on, the bios came up saying that "the computer didn't start up correctly etc". i had lowered the voltage last night to 1.73, but it rebooted fine for me. so anyways, my dad tried messing around with the settings and pumped the fsb to 200! then he tried rebooting and obviously it didn't post. he left the computer on for about an hour like this before coming to get me.

i tried resetting the cmos by shorting the 2 contact points. when i shorted the two points, the computer turned on by itself, so i think i reset the cmos correctly. but there still isn't any display. i can hear the cdroms initialize, but there are no beeps and no display.

anyone know what's going on?
thx in advance
 
Let me get this right, your dad set the FSB to 200Mhz, reboot the machine, got no POST and left it like that for an hour? And now you have cleared the CMOS and still no POST?
 
yeah thats what happen.

i'm assuming i reset the cmos correctly since the machine turned on when i touched the contact points. any ideas?

and usually when the comp doesn't post, the a7v133 resets the cmos on its own and bring up the bios screen next time u boot...
that didn't happen this time
 
"And you'll have fun, fun, fun till your daddy takes your tbird awa-ay"
Sorry.
- just had to get that lyric down 🙂
I would say there's a good chance it's fried. With a 200fsb, there's a chance you'll be killing all the PCI and AGP devices too.
Either that or your motherboard might be shorting out. Check the screws that hold it to the case are all within their little metal surrounds.
Sorry not much help I know - but it's nice to know there's people listening 🙂
 
you think the tbird is fried? but it didn't even post with the 200mhz fsb. could that still fry a cpu?
 
Either way is fine! You could just swap the chips over and see which one works in which system. If the "problem" system boots you know it was the CPU, if the other system boots but the first one doesn't you know it's NOT the CPU. If neither boot you got a real problem!
 
🙁

i put my tbird into the problem system and it booted fine. so looks like the tbird 900 is fried.

but what fried it? was it the 200mhz fsb? or the fact that it was left on for one hour at that speed?


[edit] just got some more info: after it didn't post, my dad tried turning it off. but he didn't know u had to hold the power button for 4 seconds. so he pulled plug. anyone know why the motherboard didn't reset to defaults automatically when he turned it back on? it usually resets the cmos when the computer doesn't post.

thx in advance
 
Probably because you tried to boot it up at 9x200 which is 1800Mhz!!

EDIT: Actually, thinking about it, now that you have got it to boot ok with the other chip try putting the 900 back in and see if it works now...
 
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