Help please.

[PsychoSnowMan]

Before you post and tell me how stupid I was please know that I know how stupid I was. Messing around with settings that you have no idera what they are for is one of the dumbest things you can do on a computer.

I have a broken video card that I haven't gotten a replacement for yet. When I first got it we put it in with my old CPU and a glitch happened within seconds. When we put the new CPU in which I got at teh same time as the vid card it ran for longer times without the glitch. So I assumed that the faster speed helped the card. BF1942 runs for the longest time of my games without the glitch so I usually only play that one. Lately though I have been playing other games and the glitch got me really frustrated. The CPU was not running at the speed it is supposed to so I went into the startup menu to try to change the setting there. When I got into the CPU menu the only setting I could change was the one bellow the CPU speed. It read 100mhz/100mhz and I have forgotten what the name of that setting was. Because of my aggravation I stupidly set that setting, seeing as it was the only one I could change, to 166mhz/133mhz. I exited the start menu and my computer stopped working. It would start up, all the fans would be on, the cdrom drive would whirr but the monitor acted as though the computer was off. The computer stays on until you turn it off. So does anyone have some ideas about what I fucked up and how to fix it? Did I just change a setting that would make my monitor not work or something else?

Please don't post stuff saying how stupid this was. Beleive me I know.

[Kurtis]

did you do this in the BIOS? (hitting the delete key when you start up will open the BIOS)

[Blinkin]

I would'nt consider you stupid, I've done far worse damage in BIOS.

[A Person]

Well, if it just a BIOS setting that is causing the problem then just clear the CMOS. The jumper for that is usualy right next to CMOS chip on the board (Although this is not always true). Just look for a chip on the board that says CMOS. The should be 3 pins next to the chip with a jumper covering two of them. While the puter is off, move the jumper so that it covers the other two. (The middle pin should still be covered) Then put it back to where it was before.

If there is not a set of three pins next to the CMOS chip look in the instruction manual and find the "clear CMOS" jumper, and then do the same thing to that one.

Turn the puter back on and everything should be reset to the factory settings.

[Ichi]

I think what you have done is overclock your CPU, which has made it unstable, aaaaaaaaaand basically it doesn't work. As person says, to get it working again your best bet is to clear the cmos. If that doesn't work then chances are you've killed your CPU. Which isn't good. But if it does work, then I'd contact the manufactor of the graphics card and ask if they can help with the 'glitch'.

Don't worry about meddling with stuff you don't understand. That's how we all learn stuff! I do it loads! (I was just a bit worried when my computer went 'beep-beep, beep-beep' when I turned it on this morning, but it's alright now...)

[ELiTE KiLLaH]

hahahahhaahah
u sounded EXACTLY liek me...oh i dunno...a few yrs go...probably 4 or 5 now....



i was @ skool when i did this 2 lol
i had the TECH even confused n he was liek "ok i dont know waht you did but u better find out how to fix it!" L0L

so i found out, but never actually told the tech ahaha
i denied everything..i said the computer was off when i got there so i turned it on and nothing happend....they had nuttin on me lol

but geez this guy was suppose 2 be the tech and he didnt konw shyt lol

n yea...reset the BIOS (look in manual )

also, the jumper is almost always near the CMOS battery (this is another thing u could do if jumper for some reason doesnt work, remove the power cord and remove the battery for a few hrs to be safe n it should all reset)

and if ur cpu is an AMD cpu, it should be @ 133mhz for CPU freq and (depending on ur ram) 133MHz, ie, it should be 133/133 (im thinking its probably the cpu : ram ratio) if you have PC2100 or higher ram.

[Rich]

Yes, it looks like you have overclocked something that was not inherently stable at that speed. It is also possible that you may have altered the PCI or the AGP bus speed which can also cause the same problems. Have you tried updating the BIOS on that board (after you get it running again)? This may give you the compatibility that you are lookiing for on the chip. Also, make sure that the chip you are putting into the board is fully supported.

BTW, reset the BIOS like everyone else has suggested. I have done that many times.

[PsychoSnowMan]

Thanks for your help the computer (which I am now typing this from) is working again. :)

[PsychoSnowMan]

Where can you get BIOS updates and are there certain updates for certain mobos?

[Kurtis]

depends on what mobo u have. Example: If you have a MSI motherboard, get it from MSI's website, etc...

[ELiTE KiLLaH]

itd be a hellova lot ezier for both u and us tryin to figure out if what u r doin is possible if u post what mobo u have and wat cpu u r putting into it