I think I've just killed my CPU doing overclocking.

[shadasinger]

Hello everyone,

I think that I have just killed my PC 5 mins ago. I just bought a new graphics card, and ram and then got so caught up that I decided to overclock my CPU to make my PC topnotch. So I download the program setFSB. And started to put the bus speed to 300Mhz first, it overclocked and everything went fine and saw in CPU-Z that I just had reach 2.4Ghz on my Dual Core (stock clock=2Ghz), so I took the risk and put up another notch and set it to 400MHz and clicked set FSB. That was the most stupid thing I have ever done, I saw smoke coming of the PSU and before I knew it the speakers start to go off and make a horrible noise before I could do anything the screen was frozen, but I noticed that CPU was still running fine and the rest had no noise only the power supply in the first second gave a quick smoke. So I just shut down the computer from the main plug and now it is standing there as it is and I am afraid to turn it back on.

Would it have gone back to the normal default clock speeds if I turn it on? Or would be overclocked and make it even worse? How would I be able to downclock it again? And what was the problem with the smoke and all, do you think that the voltage feeded to CPU was a little high for PSU? Please guys help me out here I have no idea what to do.

Thanks!

 

[henydiah]

wow PSU smoke ... next time look the PSU Wattage and condition, i don't know your PSU normal or not .. and is enough wattage for VGA + OC system , if you had other PSU try also try use Onboard or your old graphic card .. Clear Cmos first .. it will better for check health other hardware .. just sugesstion good luck