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I have been running this build for about a year and a half now, the rig in sig. When I first built it, I had the CPU overclocked for the first 6 months or so. I was able do 4.3 24/7 stable, don't quite remember all the settings I had used. I wasn't gaming much then so I set everything to default, but now I've been playing an MMO lately and sometimes the performance hasn't been consistent, seemed like it could benefit from OC'ing the CPU again. I followed the quick overclock guide here. I wasnt looking for a max overclock again, so I used that as a base guideline for the voltages and dialed it down a bit. I was shooting for 4.2. 42x multi at 1.28 vcore/1.2 cpu cache/2.0 vrin.
I had no issues booting up, then ran my most intensive games I've currently got installed. (crysis 3/heaven benchmark) for about 45 mins. All was good, so I ended up playing the MMO for a few hours, it had smoothed out and the performance gripes I had pretty much gone. I stopped for about 45 mins to do some shoveling, came back and couldn't wake it up from sleep. Did a hard shutdown and now when I try to boot up, nothing appears on the monitor.
I tried pulling the cmos battery out and clearing it with the jumpers. Nothing different. Sometimes there is a red light on the cpu_led from the motherboard, I checked the seating of the cooler and everything seems tight still.When I last tried booting before this post, it restarted itself after 10-15 secs and sounds like it boots up fully. Theres no red cpu_led light on, got a green activity light on the bottom, but still nothing shows up on screen. My keyboard doesnt get powered up, but the mouse will, both plugged in the back ports. Video card lights look normal, same with the cpu cooler.
I'm kinda at a loss of what I should be troubleshooting first, I have an htpc here that I can swap parts around if I have to for testing. But would prefer to know if theres some other options I can try before I start tearing both builds down
I had no issues booting up, then ran my most intensive games I've currently got installed. (crysis 3/heaven benchmark) for about 45 mins. All was good, so I ended up playing the MMO for a few hours, it had smoothed out and the performance gripes I had pretty much gone. I stopped for about 45 mins to do some shoveling, came back and couldn't wake it up from sleep. Did a hard shutdown and now when I try to boot up, nothing appears on the monitor.
I tried pulling the cmos battery out and clearing it with the jumpers. Nothing different. Sometimes there is a red light on the cpu_led from the motherboard, I checked the seating of the cooler and everything seems tight still.When I last tried booting before this post, it restarted itself after 10-15 secs and sounds like it boots up fully. Theres no red cpu_led light on, got a green activity light on the bottom, but still nothing shows up on screen. My keyboard doesnt get powered up, but the mouse will, both plugged in the back ports. Video card lights look normal, same with the cpu cooler.
I'm kinda at a loss of what I should be troubleshooting first, I have an htpc here that I can swap parts around if I have to for testing. But would prefer to know if theres some other options I can try before I start tearing both builds down
Would be less hassle. No I do not have any resistors to try load testing it. I did not take the psu completely out of the case to test it, its modular except for the main line so I just disconnected everything else from it so I didnt have to undo my wiring, I don't think the fan was turning on when I was shorting it. I tried a few different pins/hair clips. couldn't find paperclips so I was thinking maybe I was shorting it wrong but I eventually tried checking voltage, not sure if that could be indicative of anything.