HELP. EMERGENCY

[Stormblade]

Ok, I was fixing the IRQ sharing trouble in my bios and I noticed something I hadn't before. I had assumed that my attempts to unlock the CPU failed and that's why I couldn't change multipliers. However, I found out that I needed to change it to user defined to change that stuff and if the multiplier is locked it just doesn't do anything at all.

So I changed the multiplier to like 7.5 and bus to 133 and rebooted. It wouldn't post. I can't see anything and so I can't go into the bios and reset anything. I can hear the memory being checked so I thought perhaps the graphics ws just down so I tried to boot from a floppy to see if it was actually doing something and I just couldn't see it. But nope it wasn't. So now what do I do?

 

[JJ8]

Find your manual, open your case, clear your CMOS, reboot.


Jay

 

[Stormblade]

Since I have an Asus board there was no reset jumper for the CMOS so I unplugged the power cord and took the cmos battery out. This didn't work. I really hope I haven't fried the CPU. If I have then something is really wrong. The CPU should fry so easily like this.

 

[Budman]

Asus dont solder those little 2 pins to reset the bios.

I guess 2 little pins would cost to much money.

Look next to the battery there should be 2 solder points,just short them out & it will reset the bios.

 

[AndyHui]

It's not a jumper, but rather a pair of solder pads located near the DIMM slots somewhere. It shows their location in the manual, and they are called the CLRTC solder points. Their name is silk-screened onto the board.

Unplug the computer, short out the CLRTC solder points using something metal, ie screw driver or paper clip, then restart the computer and enter the BIOS as normal.

 

[Stormblade]

THANKS. This worked. Man you saved me from a teary eyed trip back to the store. Um, I think I'll leave overclocking alone for a bit.

 

[Dameon]

Grrr.. store abuse.... return a product you broke trying to overclock with it. Grr...

People like you are what make it harder for me to get an RMA when things really are broken.

 

[KBtn]

You need to power the system down, disconnect ALL power to the machine, and give the capicitors on the MB time to discharge (10-20 minutes). After that wait power the machine up and it should let you see the post screen Immediately go into the bios and change the settings. I use the Epox8KTA3 board and this happens all the time when I play with my FSB/multiplier settings and I go a little to high. What is happening is that when power is applied to your system during power up, the either the CPU or bussed components can't handle the tweaked settings.