Did I fry my CPU?

natenicks · Jul 24, 2013

Hey all last night i tried overclocking my cpu to 4ghz the model is a phenom II 1090T black edition my motherboard is Asus M4A89TD. My settings were

CPU Ratio:14x286
CPU Volt: 1.450
DRAM Volt:1.600

I ran test on prime 95 after 10mins i received the blue screen of death.

Afterward i lowered it down a bit to 3.8ghz and after 3hrs and 30mins test were fine. But i wasn't satisfied I wanted 4ghz guess i was getting too greedy. So my next settings were.

CPU Ratio:20x200
CPU Volt: 1.425
DRAM Volt:1.600

After 30mins of prime95 testing it gave me another blue screen and i just turned my computer off for the night for bedtime. When i woke up 10hrs later I turned my computer on everything turns on, but it doesn't get to the boot screen I don't even hear my usual 2 beeps. My motherboard currently flashes cpu led and dram led in red simultaneously. So i took out my computer detacted everything when I took out my cpu with my aftermarket cooler the cpu came out with it. No pins are bent or missing i checked. I cleaned all the thermal paste off and reapplied reseated everything in my computer. I turned it on and it still gives me the same problems.

I also have a CM Tower Case that has 2 200 fans on top 1 intake 1 exhaust 1 140 back fan exhaust 1 200 side panel fan intake 1 front 200 fan intake

clarkjd · Jul 24, 2013

Reset everything to default speeds and voltages, clear CMOS. See if you can boot that way.

sincreator · Jul 24, 2013

Look in your motherboards manual for how to CMOS reset. That should put everything back to defaults for your motherboard and solve your problem. If not then post back.

ram1009 · Jul 24, 2013

There's only one way for those of us who don't have access to a laboratory to diagnose hardware problems and that is to replace suspect components one at a time until the problem is located.

Chicano · Jul 24, 2013

natenicks :

1. Even a blue screen would need a working CPU... so, up to that point, the CPU was still working, and since it would need to be powered for any damage to occurr, it's probably still good. Also, all modern CPUs throttle down or turn off when they reach the preset temperature to prevent damage from occurring. They also turn off when they are OC'd higher than they can go with the power and cooling they're supplied with, so the blue screens in your case, are not likely an indication of CPU damage.

2. This tells me the BIOS is posting(?), the missing beeps may indicate a BIOS setting changed, possibly due to corruption or damage... Reset it and see if it makes a difference. If I'm wrong and you don't even get the monitor to display, try the BIOS reset... if nothing changes; reseat the RAM modules. Click on the link and read about Red RAM & CPU LEDs http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/336909-31-tomshardware

3. The CPU should not come out with the heatsink... so, the CPU was probably not secured to the socket and that may be what caused the problem. Again a BIOS reset would be advised.

4. Finally if you're getting a blank screen: check the PSU and consider testing your CPU & RAM on another computer and other components on your motherboard... Or spend a few bucks and get a Computer Diagnostic Card to diagnose your motherboard. And if the BIOS is posting, double check all power and digital connections and try another hard drive.

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