I believe I fried My XP!!!

[Warthog912]

Hey Fellas... Couple questions for ya...
1. Got a new Anthlon XP Retail 1500+ for christmas, how exactly do you void the warranty?
2. I was messing around in my bios, and I wanted a lil overclock, so I started (and ended) w/ my fsb, at first I hit 145 (hense 1.42 or sumpin like that)...
3. Went to overclockers.com and looked at their fsb settings, so I decided to go a lil higher... I went straight up to 160 and boom, w8ed for it to restart and post, and it never happened... So maybe the chipset needs to cool down, so I leave it a while, come back and the damn thing still won't post.

These are the actual questions...
1. On a fried T-bird, or XP, are the bridges dark? (Damn camera batts are dead so that's a no go) The ones that are dark are L1, L4 (I think), 1/2 of L3, L10, L5, and L11?
2. Is this covered in the Retail Warranty? Can I just call em' up and say that after 5 sec's with the retail hsf it blew?
3. Is it THIS easy to blow an XP?

Specs:
Was XP 1500+ now back to slow but trusty 850@1000 T-bird
Volcano 7 Cooler
Asus A7v-133a
256 Meg Crucial PC-133 Sdram cl2
40 Gig WD hd@7200
Audigy
Asus v7700 Deluxe
Win XP pro

Any help would be gladly appreciated!

 

[mrstatzer]

Have you tried clearing your CMOS, usually done with a jumper on the mobo, and rebooting with the bios defaults?

 

[Warthog912]

Yep, But usually the bois on the mobo will do this by default, Just can't figure it out... Oh well, Maybe It'll decide to work tomorrow

 

[sygyzy]

Man, I really doubt you fried your chip. I find it extremely hard to do something like that or break a core, etc etc. I could tell you a story about my new rig that would make you cringe and nothing is wrong with it now even after the abuse I gave it. Definitely reset your CMOS even though it has the failsafe feature.

 

[Wind]

<< Yep, But usually the bois on the mobo will do this by default, Just can't figure it out... Oh well, Maybe It'll decide to work tomorrow >>


U got it wrong. Clear CMOS means set the bios to default (factory setting). The reason tht ur PC failed to POST is bcoz the FSB is too high. Asus mobo had 2 solder point near the batt. Unplug the power from the PC & connect the 2 solder point using....say screwdriver.

When u bump the FSB, it more than just bumping the FSB alone. Vcore, RAM voltage, VIO, RAM setting....etc might (definately) need some adjustments. Read more b4 u attempt to O/C.

 

[AlucardBelmont]

Same thing happened when I oc my Athlon XP 1500+ on my MSI board. Then after I clear the bios and The computer can start again.

 

[Rahminator]

To clear CMOS, you need to unplug the computer power cord (switching off surge protector is enough) then jump Clear CMOS and leave it in that position for 20sec (it takes a lil while to clear CMOS) and then move it back. Now try booting your computer.

 

[geek167]

Clear the CMOS...... NOW!

 

[ku]

Get your motherboard manual and clear your CMOS like these guys said.

 

[Warthog912]

Preciate it Fellas, left it all night w/the t-bird, woke up this morning put the xp in and it worked fine!!! Just not a little happy about the burnt looking bridges... I'll post pics in a few..
Thanks Fellas!!!

 

[Killrose]

The bridges appear burnt because they are, by a laser at the factory to cut the bridges which determine the default settings of the CPU. That leaves them with a darkened edge where they were cut thru.

Leave it alone, it's ok. Next thing you know you'll chip the core screwing around with it.

 

[geek167]

No offense, but please read a little more information on building an Athlon XP computer before attempting to do it yourself and or overclocking and tweaking the bios.

 

[dxkj]

Hey Leave the guy alone. He was playing around trying to see what it would do, and overstrecthed his ram probably. A simple cmos clear and all is well. It's not like he has been going at it with a soldering iron or anything Good luck on future overclock attempts bro, but you might want to read up a bit more if you decide to close some bridges