PLEASE HELP!! I'm about to start crying here!

[Vesper8]

Ok... long story but I'll try to keep it short.

Got my new PC yesterday, spent the last 24 hours assembling it and hooking everything up. Installed win XP pro. Played around with it. I thought it was pretty slow for what it was supposed to be.

It's a 3700 San Diego with a A8N-E and 1gig of ocz platinum rev 2. Also got a asus extreme n6600GT.

Everything was running fine till I tried to fix the slowness. I flashed to bios 1004 (the official one that came out may 30th, not the beta). And then I found out my clockspeed was now 1.4ghz instead of 2.2.

I wasn't sure how to fix that so I figured I'd go look for the 'standard multiplyers' but in the meantime I decided to try AI NOS.. I figured no harm could come from it.. well I was dead wrong.

I set it to 5% overclock on AI NOS.. as soon as I exited the bios I got a blank screen.. as in the monitor doesn't turn on anymore. I have dual monitor hooked up and neither lights even go on. I rebooted a few times.. nothing.. can't get back into the bios.. can't do nothing.. no beeping sounds. I tried unplugging one monitor.. still nothing.

WHAT DO I DO !!!!!?? =

I want to like.. reset the default values in the bios but it won't let me back in. CTRL-ALT-DEL seems to have no effect whatsoever.. the PC doesn't seem to go though it's boot up process. It just.. does nothing apparently.. and I see nothing about it.

Please help me guys! I have been working hard to get this new PC to work and it's so sad to run into all these problems.

I suppose I'd also like to know what are the default multiplyer settings to get my 3700+ to be running at stock speeds.

please...... I'm dying here

 

[hurubi]

RMA your motherboard because the BIOS on there is deleted they should send you back a new one. Thats the only thing you can do. Run some benchmarks before you decide its slow.

 

[Snakexor]

clear you cmos, see if that works

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Snakexor
clear you cmos, see if that works

aye

 

[Xitar]

Don't cry vesper8.

Two things to try first....

1) open your Motherboard user manual and look for how to clear the CMOS and then follow those procedures....boot up. (This should set your Bios back to shipping default)

2) You can try putting the Asus disk that came with your board in a drive and then try to boot, but if you can't even see a bios screen you are SOL until you clear the CMOS.

Things to help us help you....list your system and specs, is this your first build? did you apply thermal compound between the CPU and heatsink? I'm having a hard time judging your experience level, but let us know so we know how to direct our answers.

I'm not ruling anything out yet, but if you have second powersupply sitting around try it. Let us know what worked if anything and what you've tried so far.

 

[Vesper8]

I pulled the cmos jumper and magic happened! as silly as it is that I didn't know of this trick.. I'm glad I've learned it now and thank you very much! I'm sure it'll be way useful in the future.

This is my first build that I built 100% on my own. Yes I used plenty of thermal paste.

Here's my specs

CM Stacker /w cross flow fan.
A8N-E
3700+ San Diego retail box
512x2 OCZ platinum rev 2
74gb raptor
asus extreme n6600GT 128mb
audigy 2 platinum ZS

and more good stuff.. lots of fans and fan controllers

I got this so I could learn overclocking. I just got it yesterday so I expect things will smooth up.

The reason why I thought it is slow is because I also happen to be building a computer for my uncle at the moment and I got him a 3200+ venice with 1gb corsair value ram and the same MB a8n-e.. and hell.. his computer installed winxp way faster than mine. It also seems to boot faster. I guess I need to run benchmarks to know for real.

Also I noticed my HD to HD transfers are incredibly slow. I flashed the bios.. installed a bunch of drives off my Asus CD and updated my video card/sound card drivers.

I still need to test my ram but that's a bit of a grey zone for me.. as in I need to learn what I'm doing before I do it.

Any help is appreciated guys.

BTW.. for some reason after I reset the cmos jumper.. the bios says I'm running at stock 2.2ghz again so that's good.

I'm gonna want to overclock (only a little at first) real soon. If you guys know of any great places to learn how to overclock amd64 and ram and video cards lemme know that'd be great.

 

[Vesper8]

oh I forgot to mention. I'm using an XP-120 for my heatsink mounted with a 120mm nexus realsilent fan. I also replaced the noisy chipset fan with a zalman northbridge heatsink.

i'm using the stock heatsink on the asus card for now but I plan on installing a zalman 7700 on it soon.

 

[SlitheryDee]

A64 overclocking guide.

Also, have you installed the motherboard chipset drivers? They should be on the cd that came with the MB, on the manufacturers website, and on the chipset makers website.

 

[NokiaDude]

Originally posted by: Vesper8
I pulled the cmos jumper and magic happened! as silly as it is that I didn't know of this trick.. I'm glad I've learned it now and thank you very much! I'm sure it'll be way useful in the future.

This is my first build that I built 100% on my own. Yes I used plenty of thermal paste.

You NEVER EVER want to use plenty of thermal grease. All you need is something like a grain of rice, then smear is with your finger wrapped in saran wrap. The heatsink already makes extremely good contract with the heatspreader, the thermal grease is to fill the microscopic imperfections.

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude

Originally posted by: Vesper8
I pulled the cmos jumper and magic happened! as silly as it is that I didn't know of this trick.. I'm glad I've learned it now and thank you very much! I'm sure it'll be way useful in the future.

This is my first build that I built 100% on my own. Yes I used plenty of thermal paste.

You NEVER EVER want to use plenty of thermal grease. All you need is something like a grain of rice, then smear is with your finger wrapped in saran wrap. The heatsink already makes extremely good contract with the heatspreader, the thermal grease is to fill the microscopic imperfections.

Quoted For Truth!

 

[BOLt]

Like hurubi said, run benchmarks to determine your real performance.

Snakexor is right, clear your CMOS (which seems to have worked).

As Xitar suggested, give complete system specs.

You said, "This is my first build that I built 100% on my own. Yes I used plenty of thermal paste." Alarm bells are ringing, my friend. No more than a half-pea or a "grain of rice" as NokiaDude suggested.

You said, "I'm using the stock heatsink on the asus card for now but I plan on installing a zalman 7700 on it soon." Isn't the Zalman CNPS-7700Cu or CNPS-7700AlCu a CPU heatsink? You'll have a hell of a time installing that on your GPU. Also, you bottlenecked your system with your graphics card choice if you play games, FYI.

Before you OC lots, let the thermal paste burn in. You should always give the computer a little time to settle into its new home before working it like a beast of burden.

Crying won't help, but we can and did!



Good luck!