Well I was messing around with OCs this evening, trying to work out what latencies vs speeds vs multis would work best for me. I clocked my machine to 3.8 nicely, then tried lowering the voltage below 1.6v to see how low it'd be stable at. Suddenly BSOD (ok expected that to maybe happen) so I booted back to 3.2ghz, booted back into Windows, content to try again tomorrow. Started chatting on MSN etc for a while when suddenly I heard a pop through my speakers and everything froze.
I restarted, nothing on screen. Checked the display on my motherboard which usually lists error codes of the typical 'FF' when everything is fine... nothing is there... just '--' blank with no readout.
I thought I might have fried my
CPU (possiby but not likely), so I changed the
CPU to my old E6600... no luck. Changed my
RAM, hard-drive, graphics card, removed the X-Fi, nothing works.
It would seem something on the
mobo is screwed, but I only had it at 1600FSB, all voltages well within their safe ranges, and everything nice and cool so....hmm... Tried resetting cmos, changing jumpers, removing battery, turning of at mains, leaving it for 10 mins then trying again...
No luck, my board just does not want to let me post. Everything turns on, all the lights, all the fans, just no signal, no sound, no whirring, everything is way too cool to be in working state and I honestly cannot think what cold be wrong. I can't imagine this great board dying just because I had 1600FSB, I mean the whole reason I got this board is because it's easily capable of huuuge record OCs...
Help!
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EDIT: Crap I put made this thread in the wrong area, it's late, I'm in a bad mood and tired, was rushing, sorry, if someone could move it accordingly...