Overclock apparently gone badly wrong: help wanted!

[tm_vegh]

So I tried a first run at overclocking my e6600, DS3 (rev3.3 f10), Patriot EP 6400 2gb, 8000gtx.

I disabled all the suggested options in BIOS, set my memory to 4-4-4-12, multiplier to 2.0, CPU to 9x333. Additionally, I set Init Display First to PEG. After I saved and restarted, it sounds like it's booting up, but I get nothing on my monitor: 'no signal detected'.

I don't know if I screwed up the BIOS, or if I should have left Init Display First to PCI.

Either way, I removed power from the box, as well as from the MB, removed the CMOS battery for 2 minutes, put everything back and tried to boot up.

Same result: everything spins up, HDD starts going, no bad POST beeps, it sounds like it's booting, but I get 'no signal detected'.

Now what? 🙁

 

[prong]

So I tried a first run at overclocking my e6600, DS3 (rev3.3 f10), Patriot EP 6400 2gb, 8000gtx.

I disabled all the suggested options in BIOS, set my memory to 4-4-4-12, multiplier to 2.0, CPU to 9x333. Additionally, I set Init Display First to PEG. After I saved and restarted, it sounds like it's booting up, but I get nothing on my monitor: 'no signal detected'.

I don't know if I screwed up the BIOS, or if I should have left Init Display First to PCI.

Either way, I removed power from the box, as well as from the MB, removed the CMOS battery for 2 minutes, put everything back and tried to boot up.

Same result: everything spins up, HDD starts going, no bad POST beeps, it sounds like it's booting, but I get 'no signal detected'.

Now what? 🙁

Find the CMOS jumper on the MB. It will be set to default. Read in the manual and reset it accordingly. Unplug the PSU and remove the battery when you do the CMOS reset.

 

[tm_vegh]

You're a life-saver!

Now if I could figure out what I did wrong initially :roll:

Oh well, more experimentation tomorrow.

Thanks again!

 

[rammedstein]

also, makesure you have your pci-e set to async, because that could be a bit of a problem from the looks of things

 

[tm_vegh]

I think my problem was voltages; the DS3 board (well, the f10 bios anyway) doesn't actually let you set voltages, just 'overvoltages', so I need to make sure I've got the right baseline voltages before I start incrementing.

I don't mind having to reset and do-over a bunch of times while I learn the basics of over-clocking; I just got concerned when I couldn't clear CMOS! 😛