Hey all, I'm afraid I may have seriously damaged my cpu or some component. I was up last night until 5 am putting together my new system
MSI K7T Pro 2-A
Duron 650
Creative Annihlitor 2
256 Kingston Value Ram 256 Meg Cas2 PC100
40 Gig Maxtor ATA 100 7200 RPM HD
Plextor CDRW 12/10/32
Floppy
Antec SX1030B w/300W power supply
and it all seemed to be working. I was playing TFC and Diablo II no problem. I got an already unlocked Duron and so this morning I was trying to take advantage of it's in bios overclocking. I had gotten the chip up to 750 stable and then tried for 800. When I did 800 the system wouldn't even boot into windows and it froze. Then when I turned the computer back on no picture ever came to my screen. It made a pretty long ticking sound and then nothing. I've got a smart LED and it had the first one red, second one green, and next two red. If I'm translating the code correctly, and I'm pretty sure I am, it says that it's a problem with RAM. I don't know why this would happen since I never messed with it. I tried switching RAM slots and the same thing happens. I don't have any ideas of what to do cause I can't even get to a screen. Is there a way to reset the bios defaults with a jumper(I'm really hoping that that would make it work again, though I doubt it). Please if anyone has any suggestions, I'm starting to look for a tall building to leap from. Thanks, Stony
UPDATE: Cleared CMOS using jumper on mobo and it would post again. It messed up my hard drive and stuff but now I'm just reinstalling windows. Is this type of error normal for overclocking when you go too far? I was only at 800, but I only have the retail fan and heatsink. I had tried 800 once at 1.625v(this is what I upped it to get it to run at 700) and it didn't boot properly so I upped it to 1.65v and that's when the problem happened. If anyone has any comments on this, It would be much appreciated. -Stony
MSI K7T Pro 2-A
Duron 650
Creative Annihlitor 2
256 Kingston Value Ram 256 Meg Cas2 PC100
40 Gig Maxtor ATA 100 7200 RPM HD
Plextor CDRW 12/10/32
Floppy
Antec SX1030B w/300W power supply
and it all seemed to be working. I was playing TFC and Diablo II no problem. I got an already unlocked Duron and so this morning I was trying to take advantage of it's in bios overclocking. I had gotten the chip up to 750 stable and then tried for 800. When I did 800 the system wouldn't even boot into windows and it froze. Then when I turned the computer back on no picture ever came to my screen. It made a pretty long ticking sound and then nothing. I've got a smart LED and it had the first one red, second one green, and next two red. If I'm translating the code correctly, and I'm pretty sure I am, it says that it's a problem with RAM. I don't know why this would happen since I never messed with it. I tried switching RAM slots and the same thing happens. I don't have any ideas of what to do cause I can't even get to a screen. Is there a way to reset the bios defaults with a jumper(I'm really hoping that that would make it work again, though I doubt it). Please if anyone has any suggestions, I'm starting to look for a tall building to leap from. Thanks, Stony
UPDATE: Cleared CMOS using jumper on mobo and it would post again. It messed up my hard drive and stuff but now I'm just reinstalling windows. Is this type of error normal for overclocking when you go too far? I was only at 800, but I only have the retail fan and heatsink. I had tried 800 once at 1.625v(this is what I upped it to get it to run at 700) and it didn't boot properly so I upped it to 1.65v and that's when the problem happened. If anyone has any comments on this, It would be much appreciated. -Stony
