Alright, so here's the deal. When I upgraded my RAM from 2gig (was 4 but one stick was bad) to 16, my PC wouldn't boot. This was something like 5 years ago. After some sleuthing, I found its source was the CPU and the RAM sticks not liking each other very much. They're compatible, but they just never played nice... so to get them to, I set the CPU timing manually in BIOS and I honestly can't remember if I changed anything other than that. It was mostly sniping that one thing.
Anyway, after setting that, it booted fine every time for 5 years. Until a super bad storm hit us yesterday and my PC shut off in a less than favorable way... and was giving me weird screens I hadnt seen before when it booted up again talking about overclocking. I guess when I set the timing manually, it was considered "overclocking"? I stupidly had it switch my stuff to factory settings... just to get out of the screen... and now its back to not booting up again.
I'm trying to find what I set the timings to again, but its not coming easy... so if anyone can help me find what I'm looking for, that would be amazing...
Motherboard: ASUS M4A77TD
RAM: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 16GB (4x4GB) 9-9-9-24 1.50V
System: Windows 7 64bit
Processor: AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 3.20GHz
Power: Corsair
I'm pretty sure I set the voltage too... now that I think about it. And I'm pretty sure what I need to do is put the RAM specs I posted above into BIOS... but just want confirmation where and how to do that before I play with it (since it's been YEARS since I played with it last).
UPDATE: I got my computer to boot after sapping the power and popping the battery off the motherboard for a short time... went into BIOS to try and manually set the timing... and this is the screen I got after I exited to startup: http://imgur.com/TQetZgt
It booted after this alright... but I know when I restart it, it's gonna give me problems again because I obviously didn't put in the info correctly. Currently googling more step-by-steps to see what I did wrong.
UPDATE TWO: Here's some snips of my CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and SPD http://imgur.com/C7xJh2l
Anyway, after setting that, it booted fine every time for 5 years. Until a super bad storm hit us yesterday and my PC shut off in a less than favorable way... and was giving me weird screens I hadnt seen before when it booted up again talking about overclocking. I guess when I set the timing manually, it was considered "overclocking"? I stupidly had it switch my stuff to factory settings... just to get out of the screen... and now its back to not booting up again.
I'm trying to find what I set the timings to again, but its not coming easy... so if anyone can help me find what I'm looking for, that would be amazing...
Motherboard: ASUS M4A77TD
RAM: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 16GB (4x4GB) 9-9-9-24 1.50V
System: Windows 7 64bit
Processor: AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 3.20GHz
Power: Corsair
I'm pretty sure I set the voltage too... now that I think about it. And I'm pretty sure what I need to do is put the RAM specs I posted above into BIOS... but just want confirmation where and how to do that before I play with it (since it's been YEARS since I played with it last).
UPDATE: I got my computer to boot after sapping the power and popping the battery off the motherboard for a short time... went into BIOS to try and manually set the timing... and this is the screen I got after I exited to startup: http://imgur.com/TQetZgt
It booted after this alright... but I know when I restart it, it's gonna give me problems again because I obviously didn't put in the info correctly. Currently googling more step-by-steps to see what I did wrong.
UPDATE TWO: Here's some snips of my CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and SPD http://imgur.com/C7xJh2l
I got it to boot this time by draining the power, hitting f10 to go to bios as I turn it on... and then exiting out to that image I added... I know its strange. Like I said, the things are compatible... but they don't like to play together. >_>
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