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Hexus0

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Hey everyone, well I don't exactly know how to explain the situation so...I'll just start describing what happened..

I was trying to OC my Opteron 170 (has a Scythe Ninja), and I was following the instructions that Eclipse posted. I completed the first two steps and then decided that I was just going to run a ram divider, as I don't have a floppy drive installed, so when I found out the max my CPU and HTT could do (which was 2.4ghz), I went into BIOS and set it to 235 (I had an error in prime95 at 2.4 but at 235 I was fine), set the ram divider, saved to CMOS, and then tried to boot into windows. Then it restarts (usual) and nothing shows up on the monitor, I was getting a "No Signal", it happened once before, so I just turned of the computer and it worked fine then, and now its still saying "No Signal"

Any ideas? I decided to hop on here before I go and mess things up...
Please help!!!!

Edit: I swapped in my old Geforce 2 MX400 and nothing shows up still..I'm assuming this is a processor related issue?
 
By reseting the bios do you mean taking out the battery? I tried that and it still doesn't do anything. Is there anything else I might be forgetting?

Thanks...
 
There's usually a jumper on your motherboard to reset your CMOS. Look at your motherboard manual or go to their website to find out how to do that...
 
Fix Me said:
There's usually a jumper on your motherboard to reset your CMOS. Look at your motherboard manual or go to their website to find out how to do that...
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Found it, got it, thanks :D

I was pretty scared, I thought I had fried my processor. Can anyone give me some insight on what exactly happened? I think that as I was OC'ing it was also overclocking my video card as well? If I ever attempt to OC again how would I get around this? and whats with the discussion of moving my SATA drive to SATA 3 or 4?
 
Hexus0 said:
Found it, got it, thanks :D

I was pretty scared, I thought I had fried my processor. Can anyone give me some insight on what exactly happened? I think that as I was OC'ing it was also overclocking my video card as well? If I ever attempt to OC again how would I get around this? and whats with the discussion of moving my SATA drive to SATA 3 or 4?
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Heh, you have a lot of reading ahead of you my young padawan. :) Do some searching on nforce3 overclocking and you should be able to find all you need in these forums. I don't have a lot of time but here's a few tidbits:

Set your AGP speed to 67 to lock the AGP/PCI buses so that they don't go up when you start pushing the front-side bus.

For some reason nforce boards can overclock better with the harddrives in the SATA3/4 slots. The first two are sensitive to overclocking for some reason.

Download and use clockgen to slowly step your overclock up in windows while running something like prime95 to validate that you haven't gone too far. Clockgen also helps you keep an eye on your other buses (AGP/PCI/RAM) to make sure they aren't what's stopping you. If prime95 fails, then you either need more voltage, need to check that your RAM isn't way out of what it can handle, or you might have just hit your wall and can't go further. This method makes it easier since you don't have to keep rebooting.

There's a utility called a64 tweaker somewhere that allows you to mess with your RAM settings while in Windows (timings/dividers). This is handy if you want to make sure your RAM isn't stopping you, and also to see how far you can safely push your RAM.
 
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