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Pc won't start... APC blaring red saying "Overload."

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So... I come down to try to start my PC, and nothing happens... It sits there frozen saying.

Meorying testing... ok... Core 2 duo @ 3.00ghz. (It should say 3.26 after that as usual because it's overclocked but it doesn't.
"C1E BIOS Supported"
"EM642 CPU"

Then I try to restart twice, then I hear a blaring alarm from my APC that ruins my ears. It sits there saying "OVERLOAD" and red.

Plugged my PC into the wall, still won't start...

What happend? Did an undervoltage overheat and ruin my CPU or something?

Edit: After 10 minutes my Bios settings came up! Yay! Hit load defaults... Restarted... Nada... Still frozen.

Message edited by DesignerMichael on 07-26-2008 at 07:01:59 AM

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Interesting. Could be a short somewhere or the battery in your UPS is on the fritz. How old is it?

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I have no idea. It's a Back-UPS - N5 - 1050. And as far as I know there was no loss of power in months.

I just want to know what it fried in my PC... I'm plugged into that wall now and stuck at "C1E BIOS" when I have one job due tomorrow morning, and one monday is no fun.

Hmm, turned off my second core... Didn't help anything. Crap...
http://designermichael.com/pc.html

How the heck do I get my files off my Sata drive with a laptop?

Message edited by DesignerMichael on 07-26-2008 at 07:15:31 AM

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How bout you plug something else into the UPS and see if it works. If it does then its not the UPS and most likely your PSU or CPU has failed.

You can plug the sata drive into a cheap external case and retrieve the data.

Message edited by sandmanwn on 07-26-2008 at 07:16:29 AM

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Yea, that could be it... I was cutting it a little close with this PSU.

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The Rosewill PSU is junk. It may or may not be your problem, but I would change it out for a Corsair or PC Power & Cooling.

Reply to Zorg

Now my pc is just making long beeps...

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These days, with power requirements so high, I wouldn't even think about a power supply unless it had the 80 Plus sticker.

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I just removed my first ram chip, and put my second in place of it... And everything seems to be working fine.

Woot!
Gonna back up my files now before this thing decides to blow up...

Could an under voltage have ruined one ram chip and nothing else? Thats so odd...
I'm buying this new power supply asap, and a new APC.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817341002

Message edited by DesignerMichael on 07-26-2008 at 08:57:08 AM

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Under voltage won't ruin chips, overvoltage/spike will.

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