OMG I screwed up my 3000 venice

[tornadog]

As some of you following my overclocking adventure will know I managed to get my AMD 64 3000+ Venice with E3 stepping to run at 2.7 Ghz. But my Ram would not budge over the 1:2(100) multiplier. Yesterday, I go the shiny Kingston Hyperx 3200 from Outpost with next day shipping and with high anticipation, I stuck those in after removing my trusted VS Ram which is now on its way to a lucky AT member!!!

In my haste, I pulled the cpu fan connector out of its socket on the motherboard and didnt even realize it. Started overclocking again, didnt bother starting low, set HTT to 300, HT to 3, Ram Multiplier to 2:3(133), 2-3-2-6-1T and booted, it came on right up and boy was I happy, so I decided to run Memtest to test the Ram and it kept running 5 passes of tests 5 and 6, at the very end my screen went blank. So I rebooted and it gave a long beep. Still not realizing whats going on I go in the bios and reduce the HTT to 285 and it wont boot up. 270, no go, 255 no go. Finally set to bios default and it booted up. Then I checked the temps to see whats going on and the cpu temp is at 78 degrees celsius. I thought my cpu was fried but luckily it runs. It will however only go upto 250 HTT no matter what I do. I even tried reducing the cpu multiplier but its stuck at 250, decreased Ht to 2.5 still at 250, set Ram to 100 Mhz SPD still 250. So now finally it runs at 250 x 9 = 2250(1.4V), my unneccessarily bought Kingston HyperX at DDR 424(212FSB) at 2-3-3-7-1T. Not to mention the constant chiding from my wife whole night for wasting money for nothing....

 

[lifeguard1999]

*sigh* Sorry about that. My friend hit the power button on my workstation yesterday to turn it on, and heard a *pop* with the smell of electrical smoke. Now it is dead. Sometimes these things happen.

 

[bjc112]

What are the CPU temps right now?

Idle/Load?

Reseat everything..

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Yeah doesn't sound like you fried the CPU, like bjc says reseat everything. And I would do a repair install of the OS

 

[n7]

Reset CMOS if you haven't already.

 

[tornadog]

thats funny because my cpu temp is 36 idle and 43 load at oc and 32 idle and 38 load at default. So I still have hope???

 

[Mogadon]

Yes, i'm guessing you've reset the BIOS by now, do a repair install of the OS and try O/C again.

 

[tornadog]

what does a repair install of Windows do?

Is this the right sequence then?

Reseat everything
set bios to default
repair install Windows
start ocing

 

[The Linuxator]

Instead of wasting time on OS reinstall, reset the CMOS for 30 seconds , then set your OC values and run your system from a live Linux CD instead of HDD. Overclokix Linux Live CD might be something to look into go to www.distrowatch.com and check the list for overclockix and download it

 

[bjc112]

Keep us posted, I bet your chip is fine!

Talk about weird things!

I just installed some G.Skill and was having a hard time getting it to post, reset to CMOS and booted up..

The crazy thing is, My CPU was running so cool the 92mm on my XP-90 stopped spinning :Q

I thought I had shorted out my fan, but applied some load to the chip and the fan started to spin

Woooooohooo..

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: lifeguard1999
*sigh* Sorry about that. My friend hit the power button on my workstation yesterday to turn it on, and heard a *pop* with the smell of electrical smoke. Now it is dead. Sometimes these things happen.

that happen to my mom and dad's pc. I took out the mobo and found the spot where it short circuited.

 

[richardrds]

Make sure you have the HTT multiplier at 3x for HTT's above 250.

 

[cpacini]

Try increasing the memory voltage

 

[Unkno]

wow, it's like the same problem as mine, mine would only go upto 230.....have a read here....

 

[tornadog]

well, the adventure continues. Reseated everything, reset cmos and booted and all I get is repeated long beeps. First I thought it was the new Ram but I swapped with sticks from another running PC and same thing. Now I have no clue whats happening. I know something has died but what?? I am at my wit's end....

 

[Tarrant64]

FYI, that Kingston mem will only clock so high. If your using the same as mine(khx pc3200) you can't push it too far. Mine throws errors like no tomorrow at 210. Swapped for some G. Skill awhile back and got my stock 2ghz to 2.5ghz easy. With the kingston only got to maybe 2.2ghz.

 

[tornadog]

can somebody help me with this. I am out of ideas. Probably will have to remove everything and try putting it in one by one

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: tornadog
can somebody help me with this. I am out of ideas. Probably will have to remove everything and try putting it in one by one

Send your cpu for a replacement. thats about all I can think of I am not sure if AMD will cover it , but it doesn't look like it was something intentional

 

[Unkno]

is it stable at stock speed for everything?

 

[tornadog]

doesnt boot...

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: tornadog
well, the adventure continues. Reseated everything, reset cmos and booted and all I get is repeated long beeps. First I thought it was the new Ram but I swapped with sticks from another running PC and same thing. Now I have no clue whats happening. I know something has died but what?? I am at my wit's end....

Somewhere in your mobo manual it should have a table of "beeb codes", see if you can find out what the continuous long beeps mean

 

[T101]

Three continous beeps usually are CPU or Video Card.

 

[Regalk]

If it was me I would strip everything down, remove MB and examine the cpu and motherboard. If no traces of burnining or anything clean cpu and reinstall.
Note - I do not attach cpu fan to motherboard headers (unless if stock fan) I plug the cpu direct to the power supply - so that would prevent accidents like that happening.

 

[tornadog]

did exactly that, removed all connections took the motherboard out of the case, removed cpu, it was stuck to the fan with the thermal grease, had to apply pressure to get it off. Removed the thermal grease and applied some AS, put in the video card and 1 ram stick and booted. The sweet sound of 1 beep. Tried with 2 sticks and again 1 beep. Then I put everything back in and started up no problem. went into bios and played around for 3 hours with different settings, finally got my bests ettings(I think). CPU at 2475(275 x 9), HT 3, 1.536 V, RAM at 229 Mhz(133 multi),3-4-4-8-1T, 2.6 V. Looking good so far...thanks for all the help guys.

 

[T101]

Just so that you are clear on that, overvolting that CPU will kill it faster than overheating it. If you are not prepared to have to buy a new CPU, then take that into consideration.