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I have just built a system with:
A7N8X-E mobo
XP-M 2600 CPU
512MB Corsair Platinum PC3200 memory
All in a Antec Sonata case with a 380W PSU.
Initially it worked fine with the default BIOS settings. It configured
itself to 133MHz FSB with a CPU multiplier of 14 (= 1860GHz) and the
memory set itself to CL2 - which it is supposed to support - all fine.
The CPU ran really cool at 42 degrees.
My eventual intention was always to overclock it. But I thought I
would take things easy so I first made settings which were actually
_underclocked_ at least in CPU speed terms. I set it to 166MHz with a
multiplier of 10 (= 1660GHz). Unforunately, being an idiot, I didn't
leave it there or at least try it with just those changes. In the BIOS
settings page I noticed that those settings moved the memory down to
CL3, so I changed that manually too, back to CL2.
Now the machine seems badly busted. (I have tried resetting the BIOS
memory but it makes no difference.) It does not appear even to start
the POST. When I press the switch, the CD-ROM and HDD lights go on
briefly, but I think that is just the hardware reset. And nothing else
at all happens. No attempt to boot from floppy (which has a bootable
disk in it) or from hard disk. The graphics card (a PCI one) does not
"start up" - the monitor remains completely blank. No voice message
comes out - I removed the memory in an attempt to provoke it - but
nada.
I don't know what to do! I am resigned to the fact that I have broken
something - but I don't know what! Mobo, CPU, Memory, something else?
I don't have any spare hardware to swap in to isolate the problem.
Can anyone help? Please?
TIA
Liam
I have just built a system with:
A7N8X-E mobo
XP-M 2600 CPU
512MB Corsair Platinum PC3200 memory
All in a Antec Sonata case with a 380W PSU.
Initially it worked fine with the default BIOS settings. It configured
itself to 133MHz FSB with a CPU multiplier of 14 (= 1860GHz) and the
memory set itself to CL2 - which it is supposed to support - all fine.
The CPU ran really cool at 42 degrees.
My eventual intention was always to overclock it. But I thought I
would take things easy so I first made settings which were actually
_underclocked_ at least in CPU speed terms. I set it to 166MHz with a
multiplier of 10 (= 1660GHz). Unforunately, being an idiot, I didn't
leave it there or at least try it with just those changes. In the BIOS
settings page I noticed that those settings moved the memory down to
CL3, so I changed that manually too, back to CL2.
Now the machine seems badly busted. (I have tried resetting the BIOS
memory but it makes no difference.) It does not appear even to start
the POST. When I press the switch, the CD-ROM and HDD lights go on
briefly, but I think that is just the hardware reset. And nothing else
at all happens. No attempt to boot from floppy (which has a bootable
disk in it) or from hard disk. The graphics card (a PCI one) does not
"start up" - the monitor remains completely blank. No voice message
comes out - I removed the memory in an attempt to provoke it - but
nada.
I don't know what to do! I am resigned to the fact that I have broken
something - but I don't know what! Mobo, CPU, Memory, something else?
I don't have any spare hardware to swap in to isolate the problem.
Can anyone help? Please?
TIA
Liam
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