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Fri 24 Jun, 2005 06:27 pm
Hi,
Im running an amd athlon xp2800+ cpu 333fsb barton core.
My operating system is Microsoft XP pro.
I have a Soyo KT600 dragon motherboard.
I purchased my processor in a bundle pack about a year ago, it sais it was supposed to run at 2.1, but windows said it was running at 1.2. I didnt mind this, but a new game requires a 1.7 and i checked the amd website's troubleshooting, and it told me that if i overclocked the fsb it would run at normal speed. When i went to check its speed right before i rebooted to get into bios it was running at 1.02 and windows did not recognize the processor. When I oveclocked the fsb, and when i accepted the changes to my bios, my monitor went black and nothing happened. After about 5 minutes, i rebooted several times to my fans and lights, and the loud beep you hear after turning it on, but no response from my monitor. I tried waiting, unplugging my chord, and i tried a different monitor. Im pretty sure i did not fry it because there were no loud snap crackles and pops, and no smoke. I am pretty bewildered as what to do and am in serious need of help.
First thing that comes to my mind is a corrupt BIOS, next would be a power supply not up to the load. You might wanna check out
BadFlash.com for a BIOS reflash or replacement chip. Another option might be a new processor, a direct replacement for that one oughtta be around $100 US. Before going that route, though, I'd prolly wanna see what happens with that processor in another machine; if it works OK in a different rig, then its real likely the problem is the BIOS ... which, from what you say, I figure it is anyway. Of course, I've been wrong before.
Skinywhtboy, what you should try first is to clear your CMOS. Check out the manual about how to do this. Often there are two ways. The first thing you should try is holding down the insert key while booting (works with some bioses at least). If that doesn't help, you can usually change a jumper on the motherboard for a few seconds, then put it back the way it was. Once when I overclocked my computer too much, I didn't get a picture either, then I changed the jumpers, waited 10 sec, and changed them back the way they were, and it worked perfectly.
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Thanks for the responses guys. I did try my processor in my brothers machine and it did not work. So im pretty sure its fried. However my brothers cpu is now also fried seeing as how he didnt put the heat sink back on when he was testing them. My bios would not respoond when we put his processor and a new graphics card in my machine. We also disconnected my hard drive, still no response. Im going down to my local computer store to ask them to throw in a really cheap processor, just to see if my bios is fried. I can handle buying a new motherboard and cpu. But i cant handle also buying a new hard drive and graphics card! Im going into a serious gaming depression here
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I sincerely doubt your graphics card and hard drive would break from that. As for frying CPU:s, I don't really know about AMD:s, but Intel CPU:s (at least newer ones) have protection against such thing known as throttling, which means it skips CPU-cycles if it gets too hot.
Don't think the idea was either the video card or the hard drive were broken; a common troubleshooting process for no-boot problems begins with stripping everything but the processor from the mobo then adding stuff back a component at a time, to see where the boot problem happens. And throttling ain't a fail-safe - you can fry any processor. Overclocking makes it all that much easier to do, too. Up the CV enough, and you don't even hafta wait for it to get hot.
I don't understand why an amd website would tell you to overclock your fsb to get the rated cpu speed. That's baloney. Overclocking your fsb overclocks your pci and agp slots and will lead to damaging your components like your video card or hard drive or even a cpu. Your fsb should be 166mgz (333 ddr) and mulitplier set to 12.5. Testing any cpu without a heatsink attached will lead to a fried cpu in just a very few seconds.
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Thank you azll for yur posts, I found out that not only my cpu is fried my motherboard isnt repaonding either, however my graphics card is just peachy. Well you know how they say you only learn from your mistakes? Im looking at a lot of money for replacements and wonder if you guys have ideas for them. If i didnt say before i use my comp primarily for gaming, and need a mother board and a processor that would work with my geforce fx 5700le, because this graphics card is just sweet. I would really appreciate responses cuz im dead in the water right now.
What sorta budget you allocating to this? I'm sure I can think up a pretty sweet rig, which would cost about as much as reasonably late-model used car in fair condition
Look on the bright side. Now you can upgrade to a faster system.
Seriously, I'd check on the replacements parts vs the latest parts and see the price differences. Sometime you can get your system back on the road with a visit to the surplus store for a few dollars. Me, I buy last year's technology for a few bucks. My system's an xp1700 and it's already three years old.
Aight not that much
Im looking around anywhere up to 400$, im not looking for a alienware here man
. But like i said i need something thats gonna allow me to play battlefield 2 and up.
I don't play much games so I don't know what to suggest. All I play is Duke Nukem.
Good luck with your system.
Ya, duke 3d was the best
, but seriously any input would be great
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