Fried something!!!

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legendz411

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HA! I was tinkering around with my ram cause I was mad that I could not get a stable 50MHz increase on them, and I put the voltage to a mad 3.0 VDIMM, ( I have had them there before) lossend the timings and bumped my CPU to 1.45 VCORE and went to boot, and didn't get too windows!

MoBo sees everything, I put it all back to stock. POST reads everything. Just doesn't load windows. Doesn't do anything. It gets to where you would load windows and idles out with a black screen!

I fried something, OR I corrupted windows, but my DVD-Rom boots and then the screen idles out at a black screen too so ><

So now I got to hit the bench and see if I burned something out or what! Aha so much fun.


Lesson to be learned here, don't OC when your P-O'd at your machinery!
 
legendz411 said:
Lesson to be learned here, don't OC when your P-O'd at your machinery!
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LOL, or when you have been drinking to much. ;) Been there, done that! :D

Let it sit over night and try again with a clear head. :p
 
I hate that feeling of going to bed when something is not working right, I can never sleep because i alwase worry its going to be expencive.
 
Yea, I know what you mean, but the money is not a worry too me. You don't Over Clock and then whine if something dies due to you messing with it. I understood that I was, eventually, going to hurt something. Just a shame I was too hot headed to back-off and cool down.

I'll memtest, but POST and BIOS see the memory so I dont think it is shot.

Yea, I powered down and let it cool off. I'll see waht I can do today!
 
its easy for POST to show the memory, but doesnt mean you wont be finding errors in memtest!

-Ashley
 
If memtest comes out clean after a few hours. Either reset the BIOS VIA the jumpers or make a boot disk with a new BIOS and try flashing it. I have found that my motherboard sometimes wont boot unless i reset the jumpers or flash the bios even if i back everything down to normal levels.
 
kill4killin said:
If memtest comes out clean after a few hours. Either reset the BIOS VIA the jumpers or make a boot disk with a new BIOS and try flashing it. I have found that my motherboard sometimes wont boot unless i reset the jumpers or flash the bios even if i back everything down to normal levels.
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U mean reset the CMOS right? With the jumpers and such. When I left for school, memtest had done two FULL passes at stock VDIMM and timings. If it is still good when I get home then I'll reset it.

If there are errors, I'll prolly try the memory out in some other PC's in my house. We got a few DDR left besides mine :p
 
yea i mean just with the jumpers. Im not sure why this works, but for some reason if i mess things up, that always seems to fix the problem
 
Yea. Well, I have just gotten home from schooling and Memtest ran for over 8 and 1/2 hours with almost 100 full standered passes with NO errors. I know it's not definitive, but it seems that the memory may not be the problem. I'm gonna go ahead and reset the CMOS.

resettign the CMOS did not work :( Maybe I need to flash the BIOS. It's possible they got corrupted, maybe.
 
legendz411 said:
Yea, I know what you mean, but the money is not a worry too me. You don't Over Clock and then whine if something dies due to you messing with it. I understood that I was, eventually, going to hurt something. Just a shame I was too hot headed to back-off and cool down.

I'll memtest, but POST and BIOS see the memory so I dont think it is shot.

Yea, I powered down and let it cool off. I'll see waht I can do today!
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APPLAUD!!!

I can't sleep either after my system is down... i hope you can get it running. I think you corrupted windows. Time to reinstall or just install over your current version (so you can back up your files before doing a clean install).
 
I corrupted a windows install by non-locked SATA-associated clocks before. Ahh, the joy of reinstalling windows, I know my key by heart.
 
kill4killin said:
If memtest comes out clean after a few hours. Either reset the BIOS VIA the jumpers or make a boot disk with a new BIOS and try flashing it. I have found that my motherboard sometimes wont boot unless i reset the jumpers or flash the bios even if i back everything down to normal levels.
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Memtest does not always show if you have memory errors, I had a stick of Mushkin 512 pc 4400 that was bad but I ran memtest for hours and it didnt show any errors. So I sent it in and they said it was bad but they didnt know why. But I agree that it is windows in this case, that something just got messed up when you OC'd
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
seconding this notion. it's relatively hard to kill stuff outright, aside frm a windows install
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HA... You all are gonna love this.


Long story short, I fried my HDD at about 9am this morning.

Fin.





Long story long, My HDD had failed. But I thought, "Nah, maybe the SATA Port 1 is just lamerd!" So I power down, swap the ports from 1 to 3 and power on...

... Boy let me tell you I have never hit the PSU power off so fast. White smoke from the HDD. I figure that since I didn't cut power to the PSU itself, some charge was left and, somehow through the data port, the HDD got too much and got frized. So the drive is dead though for real :)


But, just for referance, I had tested it before in another PC and it was failed. Odd timing what with me doing volts on my RAM then it failing...

Anyways, I'm gonna be RMA'ing it anyways. Funny... No?
 
I had an old 36gb Raptor that went up in sparks and smoke recently and it definitely didn't seem to be the psu. . .
 
Wow lol, intresting. Of all the old HDD's i've had none of them have been destroyed like that, guess im speaking too soon lol. :eek:
 
Builtup charges in the MoBo from me not cutting power to the PSU. My fault I suppose. This RMA sucks ><
 
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