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Won't POST... again!

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Zuwadza

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I recently had an issue with some new hardware, the motherboard was shorting out because it was improperly mounted on the tray, and I got that fixed up. Last night I was getting everything set up, installing WinXP, drivers etc. After that I figured I'd fool with the bios settings and try and get the processor clocked correctly (It's a mobile 2600+) as it was only clocked at 600Mhz. I got into the bios and fixed some of the settings, I changed the FSB to 133Mhz, the multiplyer to 13.5 to start with, and the voltage to 1.605 (somewhere around there), saved and rebooted. It only got so far into booting up before it would crash, I tried to reboot several times but it would only crash after a short period of time, so I cleared the CMOS. When I rebooted after clearing the CMOS I went into the bios and saw that the FSB and everything was back to defaults and it crashed again. When I went to clear the CMOS again I noticed that the RAM was in DDR2 instead of DDR1 so I switched that (I forgot to hit the power switch on the PSU before I did it though) and tried to boot it up again but this time... nothing. The fans all spun up, all of the case lights started but none of the drives started spinning up and it didn't POST or anything.

Specs are:

AMD Athlon XP Mobile 2600+
DFI Ultra Infinity Rev. A
512MB of Samsing DDR400
Leadtek 6800GT
Turbo Case X-Dreamer II
400W Pine PSU
30GB Old Maxtor Drive
80 GB WD Caviar

Could the mobo be busted? Could it have fried when I switched the RAM without unplugging the PSU? Any help would be appreciated!
 
your overvolting the shit out of it to begin with... turn it down to stock voltage (1.35 for 35 watt, and 1.45 for 45 watt)

try a different psu and ram... test the ram if you can... sounds like bad power or bad ram
 
Falls Included said:
your overvolting the shit out of it to begin with... turn it down to stock voltage (1.35 for 35 watt, and 1.45 for 45 watt)

try a different psu and ram... test the ram if you can... sounds like bad power or bad ram
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I didn't realise that ~1.6 was a huge overvolt, could that have caused damage to the CPU? Would bad RAM cause it to fail to boot up entirely? Because it was working fine before that. And the PSU, I'm fairly certain is good, it's new and decent, but I don't have another PSU that I'm certain works. I'm mainly concerned about a flakey motherboard.
 
its not a huge overvolt... but for what your running the processor at right now, it cant be helping any clock it up to 166x11 and 1.65 volts... start from there.

yes bad ram an make it unstable in the bios... so test that if you can...

and one rule i go by... new /= good
 
Offtopic - Where did you get that nick? my last name is zawada, its weird!!! lol.
 
zawada101 said:
Offtopic - Where did you get that nick? my last name is zawada, its weird!!! lol.
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I got it years ago from an "African Name Generator" on Fade2Black.com, I used it on a few different forums and it stuck.
 
Falls Included said:
its not a huge overvolt... but for what your running the processor at right now, it cant be helping any clock it up to 166x11 and 1.65 volts... start from there.

yes bad ram an make it unstable in the bios... so test that if you can...

and one rule i go by... new /= good
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Yeah, I realise that new doesn't necessarily mean good, as the PSU that originally came with the case burnt out two days after getting it (it wasn't very good in the first place). And I don't really have a way to test the ram, as there are no motherboards in the house that support DDR400. And when I start up I'm not even getting to the BIOS, I'm getting NOTHING. Nothing comes up on my monitor, none of the drives spin up, but the case fans, cpu fan and the video card fan all spin, which makes me think the CPU or the mobo is the problem.

I think I might have to take it to a shop on monday, which sucks because I'm already after sinking more money into this computer than I ever wanted to, but I don't have the resources to test every component.
 
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