I apologize for the wall of text, but it's needed. Cat/Corgi tax at the bottom.
So, my AMD FX-6300 (6 core, 3.5ghz) was getting kinda loud after I overclocked it to 4.2ghz via the overdrive utility. Beyond that, it has been working just fine for the past few years I've had it. The overdrive overclock is a recent decision, like last week. I decided that a third party cpu cooler was in order, so I bought an CoolerMaster 212 Evo based on reviews. This was the biggest pain in the ass to install, but eventually I did. I plug everything back in, it goes to bios, then says gives me a disk read error. I restart, go to bios, make sure that the harddrive with Win 10 is the first object to boot from. Still get the same error.
I turn off the machine and unplug everything. I see that the cooler is not perfectly over the cpu by the widths of a few millimeters. So I readjust everything and get it as square as I can, and thats where I discover that the coolermaster base is smaller than the cpu. I doublechecked, coolermaster says the cooler is quite compatible AM2,3,3+ sockets. After I plug everything back in, I can get past bios but the pc just sits there with a blackscreen, I dont even get the check disk error.
At this point, I'm seriously getting concerned about the perceived lack of CPU coverage. I go into bios and I decide to test my theory that the CPU is on purpose preventing win10 from loading due to heat concerns. I decide to underclock the hell out of my cpu. I change the 'Process Max Freq' from 'x31.5 4700mhz' to 'x4 800mhz'. I do the same thing for 'North bridge max freq' to the same 'x4 800mhz'. Then at 'Processor Max Voltage', i figure that too many volts is too much heat, i lower it from the '1.#' that it was to the lowest setting of '0.6'. I save and quit.
The cpu at this point gets super, super loud. It won't even post, or go to bios. It just sits there black screen. After like 10 seconds of this I get freaked out and I press the Off button, holding it, to turn it off. It does. I turn it back on and again it gets really really loud, no post, no bios. Shit.Time to reset the bios. I turn it off, unplug everything, unplug psu from mobo (both cables), remove gpu, reset CMOS via jumpers, remove battery, wait a few minutes, replace battery, reset CMOS again via jumpers, press the power switch in case that matters, and plug everything back in.
Now the computer wont even turn on. Yes i've doublechecked all connections.
Did I royally fuck up my CPU? Is a new one needed now?
Cat/Corgi Tax:
So, my AMD FX-6300 (6 core, 3.5ghz) was getting kinda loud after I overclocked it to 4.2ghz via the overdrive utility. Beyond that, it has been working just fine for the past few years I've had it. The overdrive overclock is a recent decision, like last week. I decided that a third party cpu cooler was in order, so I bought an CoolerMaster 212 Evo based on reviews. This was the biggest pain in the ass to install, but eventually I did. I plug everything back in, it goes to bios, then says gives me a disk read error. I restart, go to bios, make sure that the harddrive with Win 10 is the first object to boot from. Still get the same error.
I turn off the machine and unplug everything. I see that the cooler is not perfectly over the cpu by the widths of a few millimeters. So I readjust everything and get it as square as I can, and thats where I discover that the coolermaster base is smaller than the cpu. I doublechecked, coolermaster says the cooler is quite compatible AM2,3,3+ sockets. After I plug everything back in, I can get past bios but the pc just sits there with a blackscreen, I dont even get the check disk error.
At this point, I'm seriously getting concerned about the perceived lack of CPU coverage. I go into bios and I decide to test my theory that the CPU is on purpose preventing win10 from loading due to heat concerns. I decide to underclock the hell out of my cpu. I change the 'Process Max Freq' from 'x31.5 4700mhz' to 'x4 800mhz'. I do the same thing for 'North bridge max freq' to the same 'x4 800mhz'. Then at 'Processor Max Voltage', i figure that too many volts is too much heat, i lower it from the '1.#' that it was to the lowest setting of '0.6'. I save and quit.
The cpu at this point gets super, super loud. It won't even post, or go to bios. It just sits there black screen. After like 10 seconds of this I get freaked out and I press the Off button, holding it, to turn it off. It does. I turn it back on and again it gets really really loud, no post, no bios. Shit.Time to reset the bios. I turn it off, unplug everything, unplug psu from mobo (both cables), remove gpu, reset CMOS via jumpers, remove battery, wait a few minutes, replace battery, reset CMOS again via jumpers, press the power switch in case that matters, and plug everything back in.
Now the computer wont even turn on. Yes i've doublechecked all connections.
Did I royally fuck up my CPU? Is a new one needed now?
Cat/Corgi Tax:
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