themusicgod1's Journal: On the good side...

On the upside, I figured out where the settings for overclocking my desktop, and got it up to 1.7 GHz, from 1.2 GHz

On the downside, it no longer boots :(

I wonder if it's been permanently fried. Last time it didn't work at all, but since then I put a much beefier power sink/fan setup on the cpu, and have cleaned/closed the case.

Or maybe it was the power outage which directly preceeded my toying around with it(funny, that); I didn't doublecheck to make sure that it actually could boot before trying it...

Update: On the good side, the problem isn't heat. The CPU tempurature is running in the low 50's. Which is definitely warm, but only around as hot as it usually is during the heat of the day(it's a canadian night, so I have cooling coverred). I changed the max tempurature to 66 from 70. Something else is causing this. I can sort of get into the BIOS; it seems very flaky. Software bug? Some sort of cpu skew?

Update: still not sure the cause, but at least things are working(now that overclocking is off...)