OC'd now won't boot

[kbeefy]

I fixed it!


howdy, newbie here.

I've got this AV8 based system, I seemed to have messed it up. Heres some specs...

Abit AV8, AMD 64 3000+ (winchester, amd cooler)
2x 512 Corsair xms 3200 or so
BFG 7800GS
Enermax 495 silentake psu
2x maxtor 200gb sata150
1x seagate 200gb IDE
WinXP pro on one of the Sata maxtors, not setup as raid.
I've been running this thing for over a year with no problems, added the IDE drive for storage and the 7800gs as an upgrade last week and they worked fine.

Heres what I did...

Since I got this new graphics card, I finally got a bit of a wild hair and decided to tweak and Overclock this stuff a bit. I guess I went a bit too far and crashed the system. I was using the agit uguru OC, think I was around 2200 on a 2000mhz chip. I had the BFG @ about 450/1400. In the middle of playing BF2 it crashed/rebooted, but frooze up right after the second post screen. I cleared the cmos, then spent 2 days trying to figure out my sata setting again, now bios sees all the drives and I've got back to the freeze @ the post screen again.
In my fumblings through the bios trying to get my SATA drives recognized I swapped the boot priority a few times as I'm not sure which one the OS was installed on. With the first one set to boot priority (IDE3, the one I believe the OS is installed on) the computer freezes with a blank screen just after the post screen and 'FF' post code. With the other drive set as priority (IDE4, which I believe is my storage drive, with no OS installed) it freezes on the post screen with 'verifying DMI pool data'. If I set the boot priority to my IDE drive (another storage only drive w/no OS) I get a 'OS not found' error.

I replaced the graphics card with another, no change.
I tried running with only one memory stick, then only the other, no change.
I removed my only pci card, no change.
Does anyone have any tips or where I should start looking?
Is there any way I can test the CPU w/o another computer to plug it into?
Thanks for any advice!!

 

[Hyperlite]

take out all the drives except the one the OS is on and give that a try. its a little odd that it would be freezing where you said it is though, i don't think i have ever heard of that. i assume you set everything back to stock?

 

[CurseTheSky]

If Hyperlite's suggestion doesn't work, see if you can get into the BIOS. If you can, check the voltage rating for your memory, and adjust accordingly. It's not likely, but worth a shot.

 

[kbeefy]

I cleared the cmos, think that put everything back to stock or default. That was half my problem, getting the right sata settings back in the bios. I looked at the 'uguru' portion of the bios, it's got temps and voltages... eveything looked normal in htere.

I was messing with the recovery console (I've never been one for dos so I was kinda wandering blindly) and think I fixed it with chkdsk. It said 'found one or more errors' then I suppose fixed them, because a subsequent scan came back clean. I exited and windows booted and gave me a message about repairing a registry entry and it was succesful. I'm gonna put my graphics card back in and hopefully everything will be happy!

edit:

Workin good now, chkdsk did it.