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I think I toasted my CPU.
It was running fine, all the burn in tests in Sandra worked spot on. RAM was running stable at HCLK + 33 (as it's DDR333 and the CPU is 266FSB) 2-2-3-5. Then I decided to see if it would handle upping the FSB to 166. I dropped the memory back down to HCLK, upped FSB and rebooted.
Or rather didn't, as it won't POST now. The fans and lights come on, but there's no activity, no beeps or drive churnings, no VGA signal, nothing.
I reset the CMOS (I think), but it's still the same. I think the problem could be that I left the multiplier on Auto instead of setting it to the minimum. Ah well, you live and learn.
So what do you guys think, dead CPU? It was only on for a few moments, there was no smoke or smell or sound. Surely it wouldn't fry that easily, the cooling is good and the fan was on high? I've never done this before, so I've no experience of what a dead CPU will do!
Anyone got any ideas to confirm it for sure, as I don't have another to test it with? Or does this sound familiar to someone? I'd be really grateful for any help!
It was running fine, all the burn in tests in Sandra worked spot on. RAM was running stable at HCLK + 33 (as it's DDR333 and the CPU is 266FSB) 2-2-3-5. Then I decided to see if it would handle upping the FSB to 166. I dropped the memory back down to HCLK, upped FSB and rebooted.
Or rather didn't, as it won't POST now. The fans and lights come on, but there's no activity, no beeps or drive churnings, no VGA signal, nothing.
I reset the CMOS (I think), but it's still the same. I think the problem could be that I left the multiplier on Auto instead of setting it to the minimum. Ah well, you live and learn.
So what do you guys think, dead CPU? It was only on for a few moments, there was no smoke or smell or sound. Surely it wouldn't fry that easily, the cooling is good and the fan was on high? I've never done this before, so I've no experience of what a dead CPU will do!
Anyone got any ideas to confirm it for sure, as I don't have another to test it with? Or does this sound familiar to someone? I'd be really grateful for any help!