B L A C K S C R E E N O F N O R E T U R N :'(
i've been looking on the internet for a long time now for a website i can grow accustomed to. i'm glad i found this one by reading an article about how to rebuild windows xp in 5 system lines of code or something. i think this is worse than that.
being a new member i think i'm in serious trouble. i decided to overclock like crazy the other day.......and my screen is black when i start up and nothing i've done will make it work.........
i think i'll be needing a little help here considering i finally built my dream machine..... :'(
so heres what happened, about halfway through the overclock a few days ago i took a break and posted the specs of the uncompleted system in the rigs forum. All i needed to do is basically install the Corsair 1024MB RAM along with the 1GB of Dual Channel Ram i had running.
All the timings and everything has all been set. Its just the Corsair Ram stick i ordered online and it didn't come in until today. I put it in the computer and the screen went blank!!!!! no beeps or anything.....even a bios reset jumper which i've read about in the manual wouldn't help!!!!!!!
here are the specs of my so called dream machine....
AMD AthlonXP-M (Barton) 2400+ 35W OC/ed to 2.9GHz, 242x12, Vcore1.975
2x0512MB Crucial Ballistix PC4000 2.9V, 2-2-2-2
1x1024MB Corsair XMS PC4000 2.9V, 2-2-2-2
ABiT NF7-S 2.0 nForce2 Ultra MCP, Deluxe (with custom modded BIOS)
nVidia GeForceFX 5200 (oced, with Thermaltake VGA Fan)
Dual Monitor Setup
Thermaltake Volcano 12+ Copper AIR Cooler, (custom modded 6000rpm)
2x500GB Maxtor DiamondMAX11, SATA, 16MB 500GB, RAID=0
1x750GB Seagate Barracuda IDE (Slave for music and hdmedia)
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 (Headphones)
Nvidia Soundstorm (Speakers)
being a new member i think i'm in serious trouble. i decided to overclock like crazy the other day.......and my screen is black when i start up and nothing i've done will make it work.........
i think i'll be needing a little help here considering i finally built my dream machine..... :'(
so heres what happened, about halfway through the overclock a few days ago i took a break and posted the specs of the uncompleted system in the rigs forum. All i needed to do is basically install the Corsair 1024MB RAM along with the 1GB of Dual Channel Ram i had running.
All the timings and everything has all been set. Its just the Corsair Ram stick i ordered online and it didn't come in until today. I put it in the computer and the screen went blank!!!!! no beeps or anything.....even a bios reset jumper which i've read about in the manual wouldn't help!!!!!!!
here are the specs of my so called dream machine....
AMD AthlonXP-M (Barton) 2400+ 35W OC/ed to 2.9GHz, 242x12, Vcore1.975
2x0512MB Crucial Ballistix PC4000 2.9V, 2-2-2-2
1x1024MB Corsair XMS PC4000 2.9V, 2-2-2-2
ABiT NF7-S 2.0 nForce2 Ultra MCP, Deluxe (with custom modded BIOS)
nVidia GeForceFX 5200 (oced, with Thermaltake VGA Fan)
Dual Monitor Setup
Thermaltake Volcano 12+ Copper AIR Cooler, (custom modded 6000rpm)
2x500GB Maxtor DiamondMAX11, SATA, 16MB 500GB, RAID=0
1x750GB Seagate Barracuda IDE (Slave for music and hdmedia)
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 (Headphones)
Nvidia Soundstorm (Speakers)
0
Comments
Since you added the new stick, you'll have to mess with the timings again.
Just to get this one out of the way, you put the memory in while it was off, right? Heh. Just making sure. (Hmmm... Thrax beat me to this one)
Have you reset the CMOS? Is the memory seated properly? Is it seated in the correct memory slots? Does it work when you remove the stick of Corsair?
the first time i did this was with an MSI-K7N2 Delta Deluxe.......i've always been extreme about timings. and when i overclocked the msi board the same thing happened. i feel really bad because when i built that machine (the MSI one) i cooked my athlon xp 2500+ (which wasn't a mobile at the time) and i just sold the board away...
Have you reset the CMOS? Is the memory seated properly? Is it seated in the correct memory slots? Does it work when you remove the stick of Corsair?
yes, yes and yes, and no.
you know what i'm on my laptop right now that i just finished souping up. i really want this desktop to even show a sign of life..... :'(
last thing i did with my desktop was run prime 95. see i was about to put the rig into the overclocking database you guys have. so before i went to sleep i made of the verification list of the things and screenshots i need to make.
turns out i ran sisoft sandra and i was surprised i got higher scores than an fx51 and i did this on air cooling.....mind you i have 19 fans altogether in the system (its a little noisy) plus the volcano 12 massive copper cooler. after sisoft which i decided to see out of curiosity how my rig would do, i ran prime 95. the screen went blank after about 5 minutes, the computer just shut down....and the system refused to turn back on....fustrated, i left it alone and went to sleep. later today when i got my package and put in the memory, i should say the screen stayed black.......
so i was wondering.....is my system shot?
What kind of PSU is powering it?
by the way how do i post images_in_the_post? (i'm a n00b, hopefully not for long.)
Posting images: In the reply to thread page, look under "additional options" and select "manage attachments." From there, you'll be able to upload images. Don't forget to size them nicely so the thread loads quickly and it doesn't cause a horizontal scroll bar on even high res displays.
Do you have a spare video card you try in the board? Maybe it's just a video problem.
seriously i quit. everything fails. thats it. why did i even sign up to a geek forum? urgh, i'm such a failure i don't wanna be a geek no more. if any moderator reads this wipe my account will you?
An alternative is just to order a new BIOS chip from Tmod. His service is good and his service and shipping charges are favorable to the customer.
Let me introduce Tmod.
ONE OF US, ONE OF US.