I just tried to overclock my 720BE black edition via bios of my Biostar TA790GX A2+ at 225x14 @ 1.35V. Computer immediately hardlocked and shut itself down. I tried to boot it via front power button and motherboard power switch to no avail. After this, I turned of my power supply, pulled the 20+4 pin power connector out, and put it back in. At this point my computer would start but it wouldn't give any signal to my monitor and also wouldn't power my USB devices or PS2 keyboard. I did what the manual said to do in a failed overclock and attempted to reset the motherboard using the jumpers. Unfortunately, I can't tell if the CMOS cleared because it still wouldn't give a signal to aforementioned things. I let the computer run for a few minutes with this new jumper setting and shut it down manually. Now, i've put the jumpers back in the original position, booted, but there is still no signal to anything, yet all of my hardware appears to be running just fine. What gives?
EDIT: I just tried a few more times to reset the CMOS and it didn't work. I went as far as to remove the battery and put it back in as a last ditch effort. That didn't work either. Removed all memory down to 1 DIMM and also both of my graphics cards. I think my mobo is f'd. Well, at least there's a good deal on DFI's 790FX DDR2 on ewiz. Still though, that's pretty disappointing. Thanks to anybody who read this and uhh... thought about helping me lol.
Message edited by Kenshin112 on 09-14-2009 at 06:08:51 AM
Hmmm, make sure the CMOS jumper is in the default position and not the reset position when powering on. Sounds like the BIOS is not resetting to default values properly.
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If you had power applied to the motherboard and tried to reset the CMOS you can (will) destroy the motherboard and furthermore the CMOS will not be cleared. Try resetting the CMOS again with the power cable unplugged for a minute or so before you try to reset the CMOS. If this does not work I think that you have blown up the motherboard, not from the over clocking attempt but from incorrectly resetting the CMOS,
Be sure to unplug the PSU from the wall before removing the battery and resetting the CMOS jumper.
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Alot of people don't know this but the easiest way to draw the power out of your system instantly is to unplug it from the rear then hit the power button, you will see a split second of power go through your system i.e the cpu fan turns. Then all you need to do is wait 10 seconds and walla, you are power free.