Restarting Problem:No boot

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monoboogie

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Hey all,

I've had a stable setup for awhile, but have been getting some blue screens and crashes lately. After having my CoD4 stats reset during a reset, I decided to up my voltage on my cpu, thinking it wasnt getting enough volts for the overclock.

I upped my voltage to 1.58 from 1.5, the temps at 1.5 idled at around 24 c with my watercooling setup.

So...After I turned my computer on, the comp's fan lights would turn on, and the fans would spin for like 3 seconds. The screen turned black for the 3 seconds, and the computer would auto restart in a continous cycle. I get NO beeps or post screens.
Cleared bios via jumpers, no luck, same response

I have tried reinstalling the ram, tried ram from my other setup, put in a dif video card, re-connected my power cables.... same thing happens.

Anyone have experience with this, or maybe an idea of whats wrong? -Highly appreciated


The broken setup:
e6600 (was running at 3.5, 389x9 @ 1.5v)
Gigabyte 6quad motherboard rev3.3
4gigs ballistix 6400 (Running stock settings @2.25volts)
geforce 8800 gts 640mb
700 wat ocz power supply
 
Ok, so I took my other setup, and connected that power supply to my motherboard on the "resetting" setup. I didnt connect any of the other power cables (hd, vid card) because I have limited space with my smaller case and watercooling, but the broken setup started up without restting, (couldnt check if it actually posted beacuse the vid card wasnt powered) There were no beeps

So does this basically mean my power supply is fried?
 
Ive been reading around some forums and discovered similar cases, but no solutions, anybody got any ideas?
 
monoboogie said:
So does this basically mean my power supply is fried?
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Not necessarily. I'd try using the PSU that you think is busted in your known good setup. (Yes, i'm sure there's a very small chance that you have a "killer" PSU and that somehow it will destroy your known good machine, but ... i doubt it.) The other thing i would do is just be very very sure that you have indeed reset your BIOS to default factory settings: set the jumper to clear the BIOS, unplug the computer from the wall, take the little lithium battery out of its holder on the motherboard, and wait two minutes. See what that does, and if nothing, we'll try to come up with something else for you.

Luck,
_nick
edit: Actually, i'd make sure it's not a BIOS problem by doing the unplug-everything-and-wait-two-minutes-thing before your swap PSUs, just because that will save you time if it's only a BIOS problem.
 
I made sure the bios reset, I set the jumper, removed the battery, and unplugged the psu for about an hour just to make sure all the power was removed, no luck.

Would upping the voltage too much give a chance to fry a psu? :confused: or just a possible bad coincidence?

Tomorrow when I have the energy, I will try to switch out the psu.
Thanks for the response!
 
I've *never* heard of overvolting a CPU fry a PSU, but that's not saying it's not possible...
Hrmm. ...
I'd try a different video accelerator too (onboard if you were using a card, a card if you were using onboard, or try another card.)
Do you think there's a chance you hosed your CPU?
 
I tried using a 7600gt I had laying around, same thing happens...

There might be chance the CPU is a goner, but Ive never heard of a duo of frying at 1.58v, esspecially because it never reached over 45 c at max load.... but hey you never know
 
Huh. Seems like you might have a dud something, so i guess at this point i'd just try to figure out what that something is. This is weird, though, because i've had hardware that i was playing around with get stuck in the never-ending reboot cycle before, but i have no idea how i fixed it; i just plain can't remember. I think it got past POSTing and rebooted after trying to start the OS though, so that's a little different.
Maybe someone else can help!
 
Alright, I swapped out the power supply, turned it on, the same thing happens :mad:

I also tried to plug it into a diffrent outlet, same thing...

I took my cpu out, checked for any physical damage, and re-set it,
When the cpu is out and the comp is restarted, the psu stays on and the fans spin loudly, no beeps from the mobo<---dont know if this tells me anything

I also checked for and damage on my mobo, and theres nothing that you can see...

I dont have any mobos or cpu's I can swap....


ANYBODY have ANY ideas of what can be wrong, or any suggestions that doesnt involve me buying a new combo?

This sucks...

Again, when I turn it on, it doesnt post, just keeps reseting every 2 seconds or so
 
Damn, man. My guess is that you're out a $250 CPU. Now that i'm thinking about it i bet you just fried your CPU. Try a friend's CPU if you can find one and see it that won't get you back up and running.
 
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