I may have destroyed something important!

watdahel

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MSI K7T Turbo2 motherboard (VIA KT133 chipset)
Athlon XP1700+
512 MB PC133 CL 2 Crucial RAM

I decided to be adventurous and tweak my system memory a bit. Supposedly this RAM is capable of up to 142 MHz. Keep in mind that everything has been running stable for 2 years at default speeds. Two days ago I cranked up the FSB to 139 MHz with a multiplier of 10.5 in order for the system to recognize the cpu as XP1700+. Over the next two days I encountered 3 bsod.

Yesterday, I was playing a game and it crashed. I decided to reset the bios but now the PC doesn't appear to even POST. Nothing comes up on screen. The harddrive is spinning. What could have been damaged? Could it be the cpu or motherboard. The RAM seems to work on another system so that's eliminated. What the hell!?
 

Killmenow

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you DID remember to put the jumper back to the original position after clearing it....didnt you?
 

watdahel

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Yes, everything is checked. No video signal to monitor.

This MSI board has those status LED. It tells me something wrong with RAM. I switched RAM and still the same result.

I'll test the cpu over at a friends house.
 

Mucker

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Try this:

Turn off psu and unplug from wall
place the clear jumper in the clear position
pop the battery out
pull ALL power connectors from mb
wait 15 minutes
place only 1 stick of ram in slot 0 (if labeled 0-3) or slot 1 (if labeled 1-4)
place the clear jumper in the run position
install battery
plug ALL power connectors back into mb
plug psu back in and try to boot
if it does boot, load optimized or safe defaults
shut down, add other stick of ram

GL
m :)
 

watdahel

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I transferred the harddrive to a Compaq PC with Intel cpu and I can't get it to boot. I get bsod. Will this not work since the harddrive was originally setup for an AMD cpu?
 

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Originally posted by: erwin1978
I transferred the harddrive to a Compaq PC with Intel cpu and I can't get it to boot.

NEVER EVER DO THIS!

If you transfer your hard drive to a computer with a different motherboard (different chipset, hard drive controllers, etc.) you can not only corrupt your hard drive but also physically damage hardware.

If you need to put your hard drive in another's computer, boot to HIS Windows partition and use your drive as a slave.
 

jpetermann

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Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Originally posted by: erwin1978
I transferred the harddrive to a Compaq PC with Intel cpu and I can't get it to boot.

NEVER EVER DO THIS!

If you transfer your hard drive to a computer with a different motherboard (different chipset, hard drive controllers, etc.) you can not only corrupt your hard drive but also physically damage hardware.

If you need to put your hard drive in another's computer, boot to HIS Windows partition and use your drive as a slave.

Tell me how you can physically damage hardware doing this. Never heard of this.... either the OS will just not boot OR it will boot (like XP does) and find all the new hardware to load drivers. Never seen a mboard blow because of an OS
 

Tu13erhead

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Originally posted by: pastorjay
Originally posted by: Tu13erhead
Originally posted by: erwin1978
I transferred the harddrive to a Compaq PC with Intel cpu and I can't get it to boot.

NEVER EVER DO THIS!

If you transfer your hard drive to a computer with a different motherboard (different chipset, hard drive controllers, etc.) you can not only corrupt your hard drive but also physically damage hardware.

If you need to put your hard drive in another's computer, boot to HIS Windows partition and use your drive as a slave.

Tell me how you can physically damage hardware doing this. Never heard of this.... either the OS will just not boot OR it will boot (like XP does) and find all the new hardware to load drivers. Never seen a mboard blow because of an OS

My neighbor in the dorm did so without having the latest version of BIOS installed, so when he tried to boot to Windows, the computer BSODd and then his BIOS flashed itself incorrectly and his motherboard was dead. Probably very rare, but its still a possibility.

I always make sure to remove all motherboard devices and controllers in Device Manager before doing so. I've been able to upgrade motherboards and chipsets fine without having to reinstall Windows.

:)
 

jpetermann

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I doubt this was due to putting in a drive with an OS already. Windows OS's have nothing to do with a bios reflashing itself. A BSOD causes a reboot or a freeze. Nothing else. Your neighbor probably did something else to cause his bios to flash and corrupt. Just don't want to cause anyone to panic due to wrong info. Not that you are wrong, but your friend told you something wrong.

PJ