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JamesCurtis
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Hey guys, I just posted the night before last about my success with overclocking my p5n-e sli machine. Well that success has since turned into a nightmare. I was able to post into windows at 500 fsb. Yesterday afternoon it started acting up, freezing up in anything 3d, so I went to bed last night planning on getting rid of the driver ( most recent nvidia 8800gtx driver ) and installing it today. Well I wake up this morning and the thing is stuck at the login screen like it had rebooted overnight. I go to hit ctrl-alt-delete to log in, nothing happens, I hit the caps lock - the caps lock light turns on, i hit the caps lock button again, the caps lock light doesn't change. I reboot the computer, computer no longer posts. Here's a link to the thread i've referred to.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1158433
I unplugged the power, and took the battery out of the computer for a good 10 seconds, then put it back in. I figured the overclock had failed since it was at 495 fsb, but yesterday that had tested prime95 stable on both cores for ~13 hours. I'm gonna try taking the battery out and doing the cmos jumper like the mobo manual said, but i've reset the bios once before without having to do anything with that jumper. I'll report back in and let you know how it goes, in the meantime, does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Edit: just tried resetting the bios the manual's way and nothing happens. The Video card fan spins up to 100% and stays there. One thing I noticed that might've caused my problems was the 4-pin 12v atx mobo connector on the modular psu side wasn't clipped in and was just barely in contact. Since the computer stops booting when the video card fan spins up, can I assume that maybe the video card is the problem in the chain? I was getting nvidia display errors last night, and maybe it wasn't getting enough juice from the pci-express slot since that 4-pin 12v atx connector wasn't working, frying the video card?
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1158433
I unplugged the power, and took the battery out of the computer for a good 10 seconds, then put it back in. I figured the overclock had failed since it was at 495 fsb, but yesterday that had tested prime95 stable on both cores for ~13 hours. I'm gonna try taking the battery out and doing the cmos jumper like the mobo manual said, but i've reset the bios once before without having to do anything with that jumper. I'll report back in and let you know how it goes, in the meantime, does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Edit: just tried resetting the bios the manual's way and nothing happens. The Video card fan spins up to 100% and stays there. One thing I noticed that might've caused my problems was the 4-pin 12v atx mobo connector on the modular psu side wasn't clipped in and was just barely in contact. Since the computer stops booting when the video card fan spins up, can I assume that maybe the video card is the problem in the chain? I was getting nvidia display errors last night, and maybe it wasn't getting enough juice from the pci-express slot since that 4-pin 12v atx connector wasn't working, frying the video card?