My Computer Won't Boot!

[Gigem]

My computer has a mild overclock, but it is completely stable according to every test you are supposed to test with.

I have not messed with the settings in the past 3 days, and it has always worked, however when I tried to turn it on this morning it would not come on. When I pressed the power button, all of the case fans and heatsink fan would come on, however nothing would beep and the hard drives wouldnt spin and no bios screen or anything would come up. The reset button wouldn't work but if I held down the power button the fans would turn off.

Everything is new in this computer, and if it was an overclocking problem, it normally has done the boot for 5 seconds - turn off - restart - repeat cycle, but this just didn't do anything. However, jumping the mobo and clearing the cmos DID work in turning this back on.

So what was the problem? I don't want this to happen again!

Thanks for any help

 

[concreteDonkey]

I don't know what the problem is, but I'm sure someone will ask for your specs and what it's o/c'd to. Without knowing how 'mild' your o/c-ing was, it's hard to pinpoint a problem.

 

[sieistganzfett]

problem was probably the overclock. resetting the cmos to defaults fixed that issue.

i'll ask "specs and what it's o/c'd to"

i ask that because my version of mild is like the "fire sauce" at taco bell. that cpu would be at max O/C that is stable for 24hrs straight.

 

[Gigem]

By mild, I mean like an e4300 1.8 @ 2.1 (350 x 6), and the ram is PC6400 4-4-4-12 thats OC'ed at DDR 930ish @ 2.2V at 5-5-5-15, but its that Patriot brand that can be set to DDR 1000 @ those timings, so Im not really sure its that (I am running it at those timings now, and its rock stable)

 

[Captante]

I agree its pretty much certain that your overclock is the problem, but without knowing exactly what the settings were its impossible to say specifically.

 

[Roguestar]

What motherboard? It might have FSB holes (areas between, for example, 350FSB and 401FSB where the system is unstable) that you're falling into. Try dialling down the OC a little bit (or upping it to 401FSB just for the hell of it and see if that helps).

 

[Gigem]

It's the Gigabyte 965P-DS3. I have heard about motherboard "holes", but what does that mean? I was under the impression that if it had a hole, it wouldn't boot at that FSB at all.