Hi, I know there are heaps of threads here and elsewhere about disk boot failures, but this one I cant seem to work out.
Specs:
Athlon X2 3800+
Thermaltake Big Typhoon (max fan RPM)
DFI SLI-D
2x 1Gb A-data (pretty generic RAM)
I believe 400W PSU (came with case)
nVidia 7900GT
Should be running WinXP, if it will boot.
This machine was running a single core CPU before, and was stable. Been running about 18 months, and then 1 month or so with the new dual core before attempting overclock.
I was helping a mate overclock his computer, and the following happened:
booted at 2.5GHz, ran prime95, and some benchies. Seemed stable enough, no errors, temps were acceptable.
rebooted, set it up to 2.6GHz (probably shouldn't have gone for such a big jump in hindsight. I just thought I was not yet near the CPUs limit) at a 150 RAM divider (Chipset was stable up to 270 MHz, and RAM is stable up to 216MHz)
when trying to boot, it checks the backup CMOS etc, and then gives a disk boot error.
Other things:
keyboard doesn't respond after BIOS until OS load, ie, the boot menu for Ubuntu, I couldn't press enter (and Ubuntu disc seems no good, it went absolutely crazy display)
hard drives are all very hot to the touch (maybe died but still detect?)
Weirdness:
all hard drives were showing in BIOS, then I loaded a profile I created a while back for stock settings, just to see what would happen. after loading that, only one disk detected in boot settings, but all 3 detected in the Basic Chipset Features screen.
refuses to boot to a WinXP disk which was fine last time I used it (maybe 3 weeks ago at most)
resetting BIOS to optimized defaults didnt help.
tried different boot orders for the devices, no go.
In short, the normal fixes arent working, can anyone help? Unless someone else can think of something, I will swap components around between this machine and my s939 system, probably tomorrow.
Thanks in advance.
Specs:
Athlon X2 3800+
Thermaltake Big Typhoon (max fan RPM)
DFI SLI-D
2x 1Gb A-data (pretty generic RAM)
I believe 400W PSU (came with case)
nVidia 7900GT
Should be running WinXP, if it will boot.
This machine was running a single core CPU before, and was stable. Been running about 18 months, and then 1 month or so with the new dual core before attempting overclock.
I was helping a mate overclock his computer, and the following happened:
booted at 2.5GHz, ran prime95, and some benchies. Seemed stable enough, no errors, temps were acceptable.
rebooted, set it up to 2.6GHz (probably shouldn't have gone for such a big jump in hindsight. I just thought I was not yet near the CPUs limit) at a 150 RAM divider (Chipset was stable up to 270 MHz, and RAM is stable up to 216MHz)
when trying to boot, it checks the backup CMOS etc, and then gives a disk boot error.
Other things:
keyboard doesn't respond after BIOS until OS load, ie, the boot menu for Ubuntu, I couldn't press enter (and Ubuntu disc seems no good, it went absolutely crazy display)
hard drives are all very hot to the touch (maybe died but still detect?)
Weirdness:
all hard drives were showing in BIOS, then I loaded a profile I created a while back for stock settings, just to see what would happen. after loading that, only one disk detected in boot settings, but all 3 detected in the Basic Chipset Features screen.
refuses to boot to a WinXP disk which was fine last time I used it (maybe 3 weeks ago at most)
resetting BIOS to optimized defaults didnt help.
tried different boot orders for the devices, no go.
In short, the normal fixes arent working, can anyone help? Unless someone else can think of something, I will swap components around between this machine and my s939 system, probably tomorrow.
Thanks in advance.