Uh oh!

[bum]

Ok here's the story...

I was messin' around last night with my 2400 with voltage and clock speed... The highest I went to was 153x15 with Vcore at 1.9 (stock - 1.650) and Vdimm at 2.7 (stock - 2.5)... couldn't get it up so I said screw it and set it back to 133x15 with stock voltages. Saved it to CMOS, Windows XP started loading, and within 6 seconds bam, blue screen. Hm, that was odd, restarting... blue screen. Tried it today... blue screen. What happened here and can I fix it? This sucks.

Some things to note...

Temps didn't get above 43C.
I only messed with Vcore, Vdimm, and CPU clock speed.
I have 512MB PC3200 (Corsair XMS)

[Top Hat Theater]

What motherboard were you using? It sounds like you may have corrupted your hard drive and need to reformat/reinstall.

~THT

[bum]

I have an Epox 8K5A2... yea, I'm thinking I should reformat.

How do I reformat? Never done it before without Windows.

[john240sx]

you could use a win98 boot disk if your using FAT32, it's been a while since i went through all the motions so i can't remember all the commands.

you can download a boot disk from here (www.bootdisk.com)

[bum]

I don't have any floppies... but I have my Windows XP installation disk, so is there anyway I can manually or through BIOS format the HDD? The Installation disk doesn't do anything.

[Yodums]

Double check everything. Go into the bios and select "Load defaults" then config the default speed, voltage, and timings and see if that works.

[tragic_monkey]

to reformat set cd as a boot device and boot using the win xp cd u will have the option the reformat and reinstall in the setup

[bum]

Okey, I double checked, set it to Fail-Safe defaults... still blue screened. I'm formatting now. No biggie, freshly installed the other day anyway. Nothing important on it.

[bum]

****. Just realized I have to install all my drivers again. There goes an hour.