- Joined
- May 7, 2011
- Location
- High Point, NC
Hello to all my fellow overclockers, I need some advice.
I have recently purchased a AMD Phenom II x6 1055t which was being powered by a MSI 880GMA-E45. With it I had a Apevia 500W ATX Power Supply. For weeks I enjoyed the processing power of the 1055t while I shot my way through Gears of War, Crysis, and Left for Dead. I fell in love with this computer but felt as if I was lacking in its true potentials as a six core desktop. So I felt the need to overclock. I increased her in BIOS to 250 x 14 for the FSB giving me the speed of 3.5Ghz. She ran good while I took leaps of faith in Prototype and gunned down many enemies in Call of Duty Black Ops.
It wasn't until I decided to officially test my stability with Prime on my 64 bit OS, that I ran into some problems. While running Prime and watching my core temperatures rise to 52 Degrees Celcius my computer immediately just shut down. The Power LED was staring at me on the front of the case, showing that I was still getting power, but yet my computer was unresponsive.
I opened up the Sunbeam Acrylic Case to check and make sure everything was properly mounted, inspecting for any bolts or screws that could of possibly shorted out my beloved beast. After the investigation was through and no hard evidence was found I continued to investigate further. I did not smell any awry smell of electricity or fire so I was left clueless. I slowly started using the process of elimination disconnecting my SATA drives to ensure that nothing was conflicting with her. I continued to swap out my RAM and ran out of options on what caused her to be so short lived or even how to resescitate her back to life.
I popped out my CPU looking for any signs of oxidation but found nothing but beautiful golden pins from the socket AM3 CPU staring back at me. Nothing bent, nothing abnormal. I scoured every crevice of my motherboard looking for signs of bad capacitators or anything abnormal and found none. I found that unplugging the 4-pin CPU ATX Connection and leaving the 24-pin ATX connection plugged in, allowed for my power supply to attempt to boot my desktop. My fans would spin, and the LED's would flicker across the clear blue acrylic case. I could even hear my hard drive start to spin. Unfortunately we all know that without the CPU getting power, its like a human without a heart and without eyes, because with onboard graphics that is how she displays her hearts content.
I plugged back in the CPU 4-pin ATX connection and attempted again, just to be crushed by that little green light on the front of the case just taunting me and all 7 fans not even attempting to spin. I have a clear blue power supply that goes well with my acrylic case, and when I attempt to start it with the CPU 4-pin connection plugged in, you can see the LEDS in the power supply just flicker for a brief half second and then turn right back off, but that little green Power LED stays lit on the front of the case unless I manually unplug or flip the switch on the power supply cutting off all power sources to the board.
I have tried numerous attempts to reset my BIOS just hoping that it was a small voltage problem, by utilizing the jumper. I have even popped out the CMOS battery just crossing my fingers and hoping. I have searched google everywhere looking for an answer and scoured across these forums. I have seen people with a similar problem, but I'm guessing when they find out what was truly wrong they just quit posting to that forum, which really doesn't help me out.
I really need your advice. I am praying that its not my CPU because I can't afford to spend another close to 200 some odd dollars on another processor and may have to downgrade to a X4.
If it's my motherboard then thats fine because I can get the same board for $80.00, if its my power supply then yes I'm disappointed because of the fact that I got her to match my acrylic case and she did cost a pretty penny. It's hard to find a clear power supply with blue led's lol...
But I would rather replace a power supply or motherboard then the processor itself. I don't have any other AM3 processors or even boards to swap and test out on or even another PSU at the moment. Right now I am strapped for cash, moving to a new area and still haven't found meaningful employment, just gigs on craigslist here and there.
Please let me know what everyone thinks, I'll be sitting here on this wretched dual core laptop awaiting an answer lol...
Thanks Guys,
Jay
I have recently purchased a AMD Phenom II x6 1055t which was being powered by a MSI 880GMA-E45. With it I had a Apevia 500W ATX Power Supply. For weeks I enjoyed the processing power of the 1055t while I shot my way through Gears of War, Crysis, and Left for Dead. I fell in love with this computer but felt as if I was lacking in its true potentials as a six core desktop. So I felt the need to overclock. I increased her in BIOS to 250 x 14 for the FSB giving me the speed of 3.5Ghz. She ran good while I took leaps of faith in Prototype and gunned down many enemies in Call of Duty Black Ops.
It wasn't until I decided to officially test my stability with Prime on my 64 bit OS, that I ran into some problems. While running Prime and watching my core temperatures rise to 52 Degrees Celcius my computer immediately just shut down. The Power LED was staring at me on the front of the case, showing that I was still getting power, but yet my computer was unresponsive.
I opened up the Sunbeam Acrylic Case to check and make sure everything was properly mounted, inspecting for any bolts or screws that could of possibly shorted out my beloved beast. After the investigation was through and no hard evidence was found I continued to investigate further. I did not smell any awry smell of electricity or fire so I was left clueless. I slowly started using the process of elimination disconnecting my SATA drives to ensure that nothing was conflicting with her. I continued to swap out my RAM and ran out of options on what caused her to be so short lived or even how to resescitate her back to life.
I popped out my CPU looking for any signs of oxidation but found nothing but beautiful golden pins from the socket AM3 CPU staring back at me. Nothing bent, nothing abnormal. I scoured every crevice of my motherboard looking for signs of bad capacitators or anything abnormal and found none. I found that unplugging the 4-pin CPU ATX Connection and leaving the 24-pin ATX connection plugged in, allowed for my power supply to attempt to boot my desktop. My fans would spin, and the LED's would flicker across the clear blue acrylic case. I could even hear my hard drive start to spin. Unfortunately we all know that without the CPU getting power, its like a human without a heart and without eyes, because with onboard graphics that is how she displays her hearts content.
I plugged back in the CPU 4-pin ATX connection and attempted again, just to be crushed by that little green light on the front of the case just taunting me and all 7 fans not even attempting to spin. I have a clear blue power supply that goes well with my acrylic case, and when I attempt to start it with the CPU 4-pin connection plugged in, you can see the LEDS in the power supply just flicker for a brief half second and then turn right back off, but that little green Power LED stays lit on the front of the case unless I manually unplug or flip the switch on the power supply cutting off all power sources to the board.
I have tried numerous attempts to reset my BIOS just hoping that it was a small voltage problem, by utilizing the jumper. I have even popped out the CMOS battery just crossing my fingers and hoping. I have searched google everywhere looking for an answer and scoured across these forums. I have seen people with a similar problem, but I'm guessing when they find out what was truly wrong they just quit posting to that forum, which really doesn't help me out.
I really need your advice. I am praying that its not my CPU because I can't afford to spend another close to 200 some odd dollars on another processor and may have to downgrade to a X4.
If it's my motherboard then thats fine because I can get the same board for $80.00, if its my power supply then yes I'm disappointed because of the fact that I got her to match my acrylic case and she did cost a pretty penny. It's hard to find a clear power supply with blue led's lol...
But I would rather replace a power supply or motherboard then the processor itself. I don't have any other AM3 processors or even boards to swap and test out on or even another PSU at the moment. Right now I am strapped for cash, moving to a new area and still haven't found meaningful employment, just gigs on craigslist here and there.
Please let me know what everyone thinks, I'll be sitting here on this wretched dual core laptop awaiting an answer lol...
Thanks Guys,
Jay
