Z97I-Plus : Won't post after OC attempt

terrormachine

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Sep 6, 2014
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Okay. A little bit of background: I just built this computer the other day, got all the firmware updated and started tweaking some stuff. The parts I used are here.

The only thing not in the build right now are the two HDDs.

After getting everything running I installed afterburner and got my GPU clock up a little bit. I ran a few 3D marks and everything looked good. Decided the play with the CPU multiplier next and see what I can push out there. Well, I have trouble finding where to adjust the CPU multiplier and end up changing a few things. Smartly save changes and restart computer.

And the computer restarts.
And restarts.
Restart.
Restart.
Restart.
Restart.

Crap. My computer restarts, stays on for 4-5 seconds, then restarts again about 15 times until I kill the power. Turn the computer back on after a few minutes of pacing nervously.. boots to a black screen.

The fans and everything else appear to be working. The motherboard's lights are on and green (the one by the CPU does flash red briefly then go off when I turn it on but I don't remember if it always did that). I tried turning the computer on and pressing deleting, holding delete, spamming delete. Same with F2 and F8. Cannot get to UEFI BIOS in any way I can come up with.

I tried unplugging the computer and taking the motherboard battery out (overnight while I slept just to be safe) then booting up in the morning. Still nothing. My computer doesn't have a speaker so I can't hear any POST codes. I tried booting with only one stick of RAM in the first slot, attempting twice with each stick, no change.

Does anyone have any other ideas on what I could try to troubleshoot? I don't have any parts to swap out to test my system with. Let me know if I can provide any more information to help clear something up. Help, please!