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Need help recovering from disaster

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tmiddel

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Hi Forum,

Well, I didn't think I'd be in this position having spent dozens of hours reading and researching but here I am.

I recently built a system with which has been running fine for the last three months. Feeling confident and having done lots of reading (or so I thought) I thought I'd try an overclock since I this had been in my mind when I picked the parts for the system. The components include:

NeoPower 480W PSU
A8N SLI Deluxe board
AMD 3200+ Winchester 90nm
1gb OCZ EL Platinum Rev2
PNY 6600GT PCI-E video


I spents hours attempting to find the right timings for a stable 1:1 overclock of 240X10 at DDR400 and 1T I resigned myself to having to run at 5:6 or DDR333. The system would run fine and stable at 240X10 with my RAM running at 200 but not with the RAM overclocked at all. Memtest errors galore.

SO last night I worked up to 260X9, 1T, 3X HTT, DDR333, 2225 timings, with voltages at 1.5 and 2.7v. Booted up fine, ran CPU-Z, ran Sandra and benchmarked memory and CPU, hit close on Sandra and crashed. Could not boot up just black a black screen. I thought at worst I will need to reinstall Windows. Overnight I removed CMOS battery, cleared RTC RAM jumper and this morning when I try to power up......nothing.....no fans, no lights, just the green LED inside is on.

Any thoughts? I didn't think I would fry the CPU or MB with the voltages I was using so I'm not sure what's up?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
 
Update.......well, weird, but after a little fiddling with the front button on my P160 case and flipping the power supply on and off I managed to get the fans and drive spinning but only for about a minute......then everything shut down once again.

Back to square one.
 
You run the risk every time you OC. Sounds like you burned something up. It usually doesn't happen for most people, but you're that unlucky guy who tried to get more than what he paid for, and paid the ultimate price.

edit : Check the power connection to the motherboard. I've had one fuse togther after some bad juju 🙂
 
Originally posted by: tmiddel
Update.......well, weird, but after a little fiddling with the front button on my P160 case and flipping the power supply on and off I managed to get the fans and drive spinning but only for about a minute......then everything shut down once again.

Back to square one.
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It sounds like you have a short in your system. Check all of your power connections and be sure none of them are grounding out somehow. Also, unplug everything except the mobo and video card and see if it posts.

It may also be that your psu died at an inconvient time. I had a few antecs do that.
 
plat rev 2 should be able to go MUCH higher than 240fsb...we need more info...did u change the cpu voltage? what was the RAM volatge at? these TCCD chips shouldnt be erroring at such a low fsb...

also..try swapping in a good PSU...see if a diff at all
 
Plug in some speakers and see if you get any post messages as the fans spin up!

Check the RTC again, maybe you have it in the wrong position, or maybe the battery is not making good contact.
 
The cpu voltage was at 1.5v and the ram was at 2.9v (the max warrantied by OCZ). I know there have been issues with getting overclocks past 245 at 1:1 with the A8N which is why I was trying for running the ram at DDR333, or 5:6 instead of 1:1.

Unfortunately since it last shut down I've been unable to get it to power up once again to hear post messages. Wondering how to check the PSU voltages on a Neopower?

I have a multimeter but don't want to short anything out.....no labelled ground as far as I can see.
 
Originally posted by: ExarKun333
plat rev 2 should be able to go MUCH higher than 240fsb...we need more info...did u change the cpu voltage? what was the RAM volatge at? these TCCD chips shouldnt be erroring at such a low fsb...

also..try swapping in a good PSU...see if a diff at all
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Not at 2-2-2.
 
Pull it out of the case and try to boot barebones with 1 stick of ram, making certain everything is seated properly including power connectors. That doesn't work try another PSU.
 
Originally posted by: tmiddel
Update.......well, weird, but after a little fiddling with the front button on my P160 case and flipping the power supply on and off I managed to get the fans and drive spinning but only for about a minute......then everything shut down once again.

Back to square one.
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Next time unplug the power supply from the wall and let its capacitive charge drain off....I have seen this help after about a few hours.....

I would do as Dapunisher said after that...


Neo power suplies had some isolated issues with MSI NEO2 boards that required unplugging mobo and what not...
 
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