- Apr 20, 2013
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I have an ECS a780gm-a with a Penom 9500 under a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, 2 GB RAM sticks, a new 750W power supply, and a Palit 460 GTX (2GB edition).
It was running awesomely with my 3 old 233 GB HDD's on RAID0. I OC'ed the GPU with MSI Afterburner and the CPU about 15% through the BIOS. No problems at all with those settings.
THEN I decided to mess with the ram as well and manually gave it 2.2volts and set the speed to 533 (I think... not sure. I remember it was set to 200 when I enabled the manual setting and remember seeing 400 as another choice but being the idiot that I am, I decided to go full throttle immediately).
After I save and quit on the BIOS with those RAM settings, the computer wouldn't go back into BIOS. You can see everything getting power; lights come on, HDD's power up, fans start going. I move the CMOS jumper thinking that it's no biggie, wait 30 seconds, move it back and still no-go. I remove the CMOS battery for an hour, still no BIOS.
I also tried putting only one stick of RAM instead of 4, and even tried different RAM from another computer. I tried plugging in the MB to a different power supply. I even disconnected everything from the MB, took it out of the case, took the CMOS battery out, and left it out for a good 3 hours. Still no BIOS.
I tried all this booting with and without the GPU as well, and with the jumpers in different positions.
Did I just brick my MB?
Also worth mentioning: I have a full ATX case with fans up the wazoo, so I am certain that heat wasn't an issue.
Help me internets, you're my only hope.
It was running awesomely with my 3 old 233 GB HDD's on RAID0. I OC'ed the GPU with MSI Afterburner and the CPU about 15% through the BIOS. No problems at all with those settings.
THEN I decided to mess with the ram as well and manually gave it 2.2volts and set the speed to 533 (I think... not sure. I remember it was set to 200 when I enabled the manual setting and remember seeing 400 as another choice but being the idiot that I am, I decided to go full throttle immediately).
After I save and quit on the BIOS with those RAM settings, the computer wouldn't go back into BIOS. You can see everything getting power; lights come on, HDD's power up, fans start going. I move the CMOS jumper thinking that it's no biggie, wait 30 seconds, move it back and still no-go. I remove the CMOS battery for an hour, still no BIOS.
I also tried putting only one stick of RAM instead of 4, and even tried different RAM from another computer. I tried plugging in the MB to a different power supply. I even disconnected everything from the MB, took it out of the case, took the CMOS battery out, and left it out for a good 3 hours. Still no BIOS.
I tried all this booting with and without the GPU as well, and with the jumpers in different positions.
Did I just brick my MB?
Also worth mentioning: I have a full ATX case with fans up the wazoo, so I am certain that heat wasn't an issue.
Help me internets, you're my only hope.
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