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- Nov 30, 2003
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
So I come back from school this afternoon and my computer won't post (specs are in sig). So I do the usual, I reset the CMOS. It doesn't post again but I can tell the CMOS was reset because the Speech reporter thing says "Memory failed test" (I turn off the speech reporter thing so only a CMOS reset could have turned it back on). I tried to boot using only 1 stick of RAM and any combination I could think of and it wouldn't post. So I put my 2 sticks of RAM back in their original slots and try to reset the CMOS again and it magically posts again. I go into BIOS to set everything to my normal configuration and it freezes while I'm doing it. So I say what the hell and I reset the CMOS again. Except this time it doesn't post. And I've tried really everything up my sleeve now and it still won't post. This computer has served me well for the past 2 years =/ but also in the past year I've been getting more restarts and no posts than usual.
Power supply is a non-issue, my Fortron has always had rock-solid rails and everything powers up.
Memory is probably not a factor... I only ran it at 2.8V because I never ended up volt-modding my motherboard. And I'm sure BH-5 can take 200MHz @ 2.8V no sweat =]
CPU has served me very well, I doubt it's my trusty Barton 2500+. I run it 24/7 @ 2.2GHz with watercooling and it stays nice and cool, never above 40 C.
GPU no problems, also watercooled... not the problem.
HDD is 1 year old after old WD 120GB SE died on me but I've never witnessed data corruption or other signs of hard-drive failure with this RMA drive.
Motherboard is probably the culprit but I'm wondering if anybody knows anything I can do to make my computer post. All my freaking college essays are on my computer and not backed up anywhere else (and that's like 10 essays) and I would like to not re-write them.
Help =/
Power supply is a non-issue, my Fortron has always had rock-solid rails and everything powers up.
Memory is probably not a factor... I only ran it at 2.8V because I never ended up volt-modding my motherboard. And I'm sure BH-5 can take 200MHz @ 2.8V no sweat =]
CPU has served me very well, I doubt it's my trusty Barton 2500+. I run it 24/7 @ 2.2GHz with watercooling and it stays nice and cool, never above 40 C.
GPU no problems, also watercooled... not the problem.
HDD is 1 year old after old WD 120GB SE died on me but I've never witnessed data corruption or other signs of hard-drive failure with this RMA drive.
Motherboard is probably the culprit but I'm wondering if anybody knows anything I can do to make my computer post. All my freaking college essays are on my computer and not backed up anywhere else (and that's like 10 essays) and I would like to not re-write them.
Help =/