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Peach

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I was overclocking with my new motherboard last night, and I hit a wall at 3.5ghz, So I decided to raise the voltage to 1.5v and go to my goal of 3.8. Well when i did this, the pc booted up fine, got into windows, ran for about 5 minutes, just enough time for me to check the temperatures (they were around 130f, well within limits for a prescott) and then all of a sudden my pc just turns off. Now it won't turn back on. Do you guys think its a power supply problem? I've been running a not so great Enlight 300w.
 
Try using a friends power supply or a backup to check to see if your motherboard is fine.
 
I'll give that a shot most likely tomorrow, the motherboard seems ok, the green LED lights up when the power supply is plugged in, just when I hit the button it doesn't turn on. Gonna check the front panel jumpers to make sure nothing fell out.
 
Yeah check the connections everywhere. If everything seems to be hooked up you might also want to try clearing your CMOS. Alowishus has a good suggestion as well, if you think it's the PSU (I do not since you seem to be getting power to the board).
 
Am I correct in saying that if the problem is the CPU, if you remove the CPU, the PC with boot and beep the beep code for CPU Problem? I think something in the power supply is damaged, and cannot supply enough power to turn on the PC, but just barely enough power to put some juice through the board.
 
maybe you need to reset the motherboard? I know when my computer won't boot b/c of changes in the bios, I just have to move the one jumper to clear everything and then put it back and it starts all fin againn.
 
Even if your cpu is bad the mobo comp should turn on. it will just beeb, but the power supply should turn on. I would try to reset your mobo..
 
you can always connect the green wire to any black wire on your 20pin atx connector, this will force your PS to start independant of the MB. If your still confused which pins to connect. If you hold the atx connector in your hand to that the little plastic tab is facing up, it should be the 4th pin accross the top and hte 6th pin across the top. grab a paperclip and join em up.

if the psu doesnt start then, its cooked
 
MaMMa said:
after a bad OC and resetting bios doesnt work, next best thing to do is leave the jumper on reset with batter out for ATLEAST 10 mins no less.

also, do your pc and urself a huge favore and get a new PSU!

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=792566 check that :)

Goodluck,

MaMMa
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lol mamma? r u a girl. and yeah get a new psu if your tight on money i suggest a fortron blue storm 500w its like $80 on newegg
 
Ballz2TheWallz said:
lol mamma? r u a girl. and yeah get a new psu if your tight on money i suggest a fortron blue storm 500w its like $80 on newegg
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Well, I just got home, and I decided to take the new mobo out and put my old 865PERL mobo in. Same CPU, RAM, Video Card. I get the same results. I am going to try to run the PSU by itself with the paperclip trick, and see if the fans spin. Do you guys think the CPU could die by 1.5V? The default is 1.3V.
 
Peach said:
Well, I just got home, and I decided to take the new mobo out and put my old 865PERL mobo in. Same CPU, RAM, Video Card. I get the same results. I am going to try to run the PSU by itself with the paperclip trick, and see if the fans spin. Do you guys think the CPU could die by 1.5V? The default is 1.3V.
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I highly doubt i'd die at 1.5v I had mine at 1.7 but its not the FX so I duno
 
I did the paperclip trick, looks like the power supply is dead. A friend of mine has a crappy 300w that will at least get my PC up and running until I can pick up a nice one. I got this PSU from work about 6 months ago, and i'm going to see if my boss will give me a replacement. If he doesn't its kinda BS.
 
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