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Limp Gawd
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- Mar 4, 2005
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I attempted to do an OC with my first build, and it ended up frying. First I couldn't get it to OC over 219FSB. Everything was lowered to the minimum, and once I went over 219 I would get no POST, monitor would turn black and make a fuzzy sound. I would reset the CMOS and do it again and again but couldn't get it to budge. I took some advice from you guys about the dividers, voltage, etc. and after quite a few CMOS resets it wouldn't even give a POST beep and my monitor would go black.
After MSI sent me a new board I found out that there was a bug with the Winchester cores on my particular board that wouldn't allow you to go over 219. The fix was to OC to 219 and use a Windows based overclocker like nTune or MSI CoreCenter to go higher. Well, once I let nTune do it's thing it froze and then fried again.
After I did the second RMA I decided I wouldn't touch anything in the BIOS. I stubbornly wanted to get my 6600GT to go higher so I bumped up the PCIE a small tad from 100 to 110, and it fried again!
By the way, MSI's RMA Dept. is awesome... They keep sending me a new board after every one that I fry no questions asked. Well I just got off the phone with MSI Tech Support and the third RMA is on the way, but he suggested a few things to me. Of course I didn't tell him I was OCing, but he told me that it could be my video card. I thought that too, but it works on every board replacement I've been sent, as well as all of my other components. Then he said it could be a problem with my power supply or my case not being grounded correctly.
When I took the board out for the first RMA, one of the gold pegs the motherboard screws into was loose and I had a hell of a time trying to get it out. Could that be it? Do those gold mount things conduct electricty? How is the motherboard grounded if they are sitting on top of metal? I'm going to have to take my case apart and try to guess and see if everything looks right and grounded. And the flimsy metal thing on the back of the case that the motherboards ports clip into is all bent up. Could that be causing a problem? Is it just for show, can I do without it?
This probably sounds ridiculous, but I don't know what's going on. I've went over every possibility of frying your PC with overclocking, but the overclocks I'm doing are so minute I can hardly believe that's the problem.
?????
After MSI sent me a new board I found out that there was a bug with the Winchester cores on my particular board that wouldn't allow you to go over 219. The fix was to OC to 219 and use a Windows based overclocker like nTune or MSI CoreCenter to go higher. Well, once I let nTune do it's thing it froze and then fried again.
After I did the second RMA I decided I wouldn't touch anything in the BIOS. I stubbornly wanted to get my 6600GT to go higher so I bumped up the PCIE a small tad from 100 to 110, and it fried again!
By the way, MSI's RMA Dept. is awesome... They keep sending me a new board after every one that I fry no questions asked. Well I just got off the phone with MSI Tech Support and the third RMA is on the way, but he suggested a few things to me. Of course I didn't tell him I was OCing, but he told me that it could be my video card. I thought that too, but it works on every board replacement I've been sent, as well as all of my other components. Then he said it could be a problem with my power supply or my case not being grounded correctly.
When I took the board out for the first RMA, one of the gold pegs the motherboard screws into was loose and I had a hell of a time trying to get it out. Could that be it? Do those gold mount things conduct electricty? How is the motherboard grounded if they are sitting on top of metal? I'm going to have to take my case apart and try to guess and see if everything looks right and grounded. And the flimsy metal thing on the back of the case that the motherboards ports clip into is all bent up. Could that be causing a problem? Is it just for show, can I do without it?
This probably sounds ridiculous, but I don't know what's going on. I've went over every possibility of frying your PC with overclocking, but the overclocks I'm doing are so minute I can hardly believe that's the problem.
?????
