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Recently put together a build with a GIGABYTE GA-EP45 / Q6600. After it booted successfully I started idely playing with the BIOS. I was out of blank DVDs so I couldn't burn my Windows 7 iso until later but still felt the need to screw around a little.
Anyways long story short, I set the vcore to 1.356 and bumped up the FSB to 300, giving me 2.7GHz, or a 300MHz overclock. It wasn't a legitimate OC, and I know that's a huge bump to give it without incrementally testing stability, adding more volts, etc, but I figured I'll just clear the CMOS if it won't POST.
So I saved the settings in the BIOS, and it powers down...then turns back on for 3 seconds...then powers down...then turns back on for 3 seconds...forever.
Cleared the CMOS, same behavior. I can't POSSIBLY imagine that the mobo was somehow fried by a measly 300MHz overclock. I could see if I got a weak chip that might not be able to boot on a 300MHz OC, and certainly not at stock voltage, but never that it would DESTROY my motherboard somehow!
Anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
Anyways long story short, I set the vcore to 1.356 and bumped up the FSB to 300, giving me 2.7GHz, or a 300MHz overclock. It wasn't a legitimate OC, and I know that's a huge bump to give it without incrementally testing stability, adding more volts, etc, but I figured I'll just clear the CMOS if it won't POST.
So I saved the settings in the BIOS, and it powers down...then turns back on for 3 seconds...then powers down...then turns back on for 3 seconds...forever.
Cleared the CMOS, same behavior. I can't POSSIBLY imagine that the mobo was somehow fried by a measly 300MHz overclock. I could see if I got a weak chip that might not be able to boot on a 300MHz OC, and certainly not at stock voltage, but never that it would DESTROY my motherboard somehow!
Anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
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