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brucelee543 · #1 04-28-2007

Hi, Need some serious help on this one!

30 minutes ago I happily sat at my newly configured RAID0 system transferring all my data back from removable media while listening to internet radio when I thought it may speed things up a bit if I were to use my overclocking in windows utility, the CPU was working away at the time when I switched to 110% (CPU is AMD Athlon 64 3200+ running at 2000mhz) this would only bump it up to 2200mhz! all of a sudden it locked up, I couldnt even Ctrl+Alt-Del, after restarting manually it gets passed the option of entering BIOS up to the screen where it shows system configuration, but not fully loading (just showing half the screen) and locks, after several restarts gets to a slightly different stage on the screen.
This is as far as it goes and I cant boot from floppy!
Motherboard is an ASUS A8N-E with 2 x 1GB sticks of Corsair RAM
Have i killed my CPU????
Somebody please help as it feels like someone has has just stuck a screwdriver through my head!

brucelee543 · #2 04-28-2007

Oh one other thing, if i have to reset the bios, would this mean i would need to reconfigure RAID having to clear the disks again?

merlin · #3 04-28-2007

Howdy.. Just clear the CMOS.. Your Raid Array will not be ruined.. It will still be there.. I have had to do it many times.. Never lost my Raid array.

brucelee543 · #4 04-28-2007

Thanks Merlin youre a star! This is about the only thing i havent done... am now going to race home to my pc and try this, will let you know how it goes.

merlin · #5 04-28-2007

Yes would like to see if it worked.. It should.. Just take out the small battery for a good thirty seconds plop it back in and there ya go. Your array will still be there and your cpu clock will go back to what it was normally.

brucelee543 · #6 04-28-2007

Thanks mate, spot on! I done it by moving the jumper... all back to normal and array still intact, what a weight off the shoulders, thought i had fried the cpu for a time, uve made my weekend ;- )

merlin · #7 04-28-2007

glad to hear.. Thats what were here for bud.. Well enjoy your pc now lol.. Dont know why it stopped after 110% of oc..

I have my AMD at 255 fsb..?

brucelee543 · #8 04-28-2007

255! im not sure why it did neither... maybe because the system was working in full glory at the time of applying the settings... what do ya think?

merlin · #9 04-28-2007

I would start off a little low.. And do not do it from that place in the BIOS.. Do it from the FSB changer thingy (forget the name lol) Start off at like 205 run some tests on it etc. then go up to 210 etc.. Thats how I did it, and running my 4200 @ 6000+ speeds..