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System failure. [message #290493]

Sun, 14 October 2007 20:45

Dave Anderson
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Registered: December 2004
Location: United States

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Some of you here are very good at troubleshooting this kind of stuff so here we go.

An Intel Pentium 4 processor has thermal control built into it at a micro level. Meaning, if it gets to hot it will slow itself down. Along with that, my motherboard has thermal control and will shutdown if the CPU gets too hot. CPU failure doesn't seem likely.

I have had this CPU overclocked for a long time now, but not sure if its been over a year. Its been OC'd from 2.80GHz to 3.50GHz running stable with no hiccups for the duration of its OC'd life.

Today I thought I'd push it to 4.0GHz knowing about all of the supposed CPU thermal control I have. I had it up to 3.801GHz (a multiplier of 21 x 181). It worked. I went up to 21x189 (3.960GHz) and that's where my computer failed to boot up.

My motherboard has CrashFree BIOS, meaning I can shutdown my computer and the BIOS will reset itself if it knows there was an overclocking failure. This did not happen. I reset the CMOS, turned on my PC, still, nothing.

So then I took out two of my memory modules leaving my two new 1GiB modules in, turned on the PC, still, nothing.

Symptoms...

1. Everything internally gets power (fans, hard disks, cd/dvd drives, etc)
2. CPU Fan and all other fans run fine.
3. No beeping.
4. Does NOT reach POST.
5. Keyboard and mouse do NOT get power.

I have a feeling I killed my CPU, but I'm not sure. It could be a part of the motherboard that gave out, but dear god if that happened I'm screwed.

David Anderson
Founder, Software Consultant
DCOM Productions
Microsoft Partner (MSP)

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		System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Sun, 14 October 2007 20:45
		Re: System failure. By: Caveman on Sun, 14 October 2007 23:38
		Re: System failure. By: CarrierII on Mon, 15 October 2007 00:46
		Re: System failure. By: Chuck Norris on Mon, 15 October 2007 01:47
		Re: System failure. By: Zion on Mon, 15 October 2007 04:00
		Re: System failure. By: danpaul88 on Mon, 15 October 2007 05:54
		Re: System failure. By: AoBfrost on Mon, 15 October 2007 06:15
		Re: System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Mon, 15 October 2007 06:20
		Re: System failure. By: Caveman on Mon, 15 October 2007 07:06
		Re: System failure. By: Jecht on Mon, 15 October 2007 07:45
		Re: System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Mon, 15 October 2007 08:53
		Re: System failure. By: AoBfrost on Mon, 15 October 2007 08:58
		Re: System failure. By: trooprm02 on Mon, 15 October 2007 09:13
		Re: System failure. By: JPNOD on Mon, 15 October 2007 10:04
		Re: System failure. By: Caveman on Mon, 15 October 2007 10:56
		Re: System failure. By: The Elite Officer on Mon, 15 October 2007 09:46
		Re: System failure. By: JPNOD on Mon, 15 October 2007 10:17
		Re: System failure. By: Oblivion165 on Mon, 15 October 2007 10:46
		Re: System failure. By: Matix101 on Mon, 15 October 2007 12:18
		Re: System failure. By: sadukar09 on Mon, 15 October 2007 12:20
		Re: System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Mon, 15 October 2007 12:47
		Re: System failure. By: sadukar09 on Mon, 15 October 2007 12:58
		Re: System failure. By: trooprm02 on Mon, 15 October 2007 14:24
		Re: System failure. By: Caveman on Mon, 15 October 2007 14:51
		Re: System failure. By: mrpirate on Tue, 16 October 2007 08:09
		Re: System failure. By: cmatt42 on Mon, 15 October 2007 14:42
		Re: System failure. By: trooprm02 on Mon, 15 October 2007 14:45
		Re: System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Mon, 15 October 2007 14:50
		Re: System failure. By: sadukar09 on Mon, 15 October 2007 15:14
		Re: System failure. By: Caveman on Mon, 15 October 2007 15:19
		Re: System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Mon, 15 October 2007 17:38
		Re: System failure. By: Jecht on Mon, 15 October 2007 18:38
		Re: System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Mon, 15 October 2007 19:59
		Re: System failure. By: Chuck Norris on Tue, 16 October 2007 00:03
		Re: System failure. By: CarrierII on Tue, 16 October 2007 00:11
		Re: System failure. By: Dave Anderson on Tue, 16 October 2007 06:43

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