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Computer Won't Boot

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mikey_rules

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Hi there guys. My computer won't boot. Like, I press the power button and nothing. Everything is just dead. I was wondering if anybody could help me. Here's a quick story of why this has happened.

So, I recently purchased a new tower with 400W PS. I put in my mobo in the new tower and everything booted up just fine. The computer was working perfectly without any known errors, so I decided to overclock it just a little. I have an ASUS A7N8X-X mobo with an AMD Athlon 3000+ XP. So, I go into BIOS and cranked the frequency from 166MHz to 200Mhz. I set the clock a little faster and increased the voltage to about 1.8V. I saved and restarted. The computer booted up just until after it was finished detecting my Primary/Secondary Master and Slaves...then nothing. I pressed the reset button and the same thing happened again. I turned off the computer entirely then hit the power button again after waiting a few seconds. Then the computer wouldn't even boot up at all as mentioned in the first paragraph.

I tried taking out the Mobo battery and I had it out for about 1 hour, then put it back in again and tried to boot up, but it was a no go.

I really don't know what to do. If anybody has any information or help, please let me know. It will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!
 
Try clearing the CMOS. Only thing I can think of really unlness your power supply up and died on you which is unlikely.

Refer to your ASUS manual on resetting the CMOS. Generally is entails unplugging the PC from the wall, moving the CMOS reset jumper to pins 2 & 3 from pins 1 & 2, and then removing the CMOS battery. Press the power button to pull any juice left in the PS, switch the CMOS jumper back to pins 1 & 2 from pins 2 & 3, reinstall the CMOS battery, and lastly plug the PC back in.
 
Hey there. Thanks for the help, but I've tried that also and it didn't work. Thanks so much for helping though. Again, any other information is greatly appreciated.
 
Hmmm....

Might end up having to isolate the mobo from everything else. Pull everything but CPU and Ram from it. Unplug your HD and CDRoms...

Not to miss the obvious things... but your power connection headers all all hooked up correctly to the mobo right? :rolleyes:

If you press your power button and not even the fans nor hard drive spin up, more than likely your power-on headers on the motherboard are bad, or the power-on switch itself is bad.... or your power supply could be toast.

Only possibilities that makes sense to me....
 
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