is it dead..?

[antitrust]

Everything has been fine since I first overclocked in the beginning of April - up until a few minutes ago when I went to touch up the pencil lead on the L1 bridges. I know I'll be asked if the core is cracked or chipped - it is not. It looks absolutely beautiful as it always has, hehe. The computer will boot up, but the monitor will remain completely blank. For some reason, my cd-writer is acting as if there is a cd in there - while there is not. Or at least I'm assuming that's what the noise is, as it sounds just the same. When I first turn the computer on, I get one beep (the same that is always there when it starts up), but as I said, the screen remains blank. Anyone know what the problem might be, or if the cpu is dead?

AMD Athlon 750 @ 935MHz (1.85v)
Abit KT7 motherboard

I'll assume that's all the information you'd need... anymore information needed, ask. Thanks.

-jen

 

[Courtland]

I have never connected the bridges on an athlon however I could see where if you did it wrong it could really mess some stuff up, ex making your marks too wide. You could try cleaning off the cpu and see if it runs at stock speed if nothing else works, however you should wait for some more opinions.

 

[loosliptcomptrola]

Check your video card. Sounds like your motherboard still boots its BIOS and isn't giving
you any warning beeps, right?

 

[antitrust]

Well, I thought about that, especially since aside from the one "normal" beep, nothing seems irregular, but I don't see how there could be a problem with the video card. It was not even touched.. the monitor responds to the computer being turned on by turning itself on, but after 5-10 seconds it shuts itself back off, probably because of inactivity.

I don't know how the cpu is dead - I'd think that it wouldn't even boot if that were the case. Then again, I don't know nearly as much about this as I'd like to.

Thanks.

 

[Viper0329]

check you ram

 

[aznmist]

seems like you have a loose connection

 

[loosliptcomptrola]

Yeah, I've had similar problems with my ram. Reset cmos and check your jumpers.