All was well until I decided to "fix" it. See below:
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Well...the PC was working ok. Played FFXI fine, after reinstalling SP2 I had no troubles with it.
However it was taking forever to load windows and was generally slower than my old pc so I decided to play around with the BIOS settings. I changed this one performance setting from Optimal to Turbo (This upped the voltage on some things and did some other stuff, none of the settings were over manufacturer's specs). It also overclocked my CPU so I manually changed that setting back to no overclocking (I'm still trying to be careful with this system).
Restarted PC, worked GREAT! Loaded way faster. I thought, well there is another setting between Optimal and Turbo (High-Performance) so I thought I would try that setting to see if I still got good speed without beating my system to death (as I said, trying to be careful). Changed that setting and noticed that it changed the voltage on my RAM to 133mhz and it had been at 200mhz so I changed it back to 200.
Rebooted and got an error that said to insert the system disk and hit enter. Hitting enter did nothing. Restarted several times with no luck. Read through my handy manual and it said something about clearing the CMOS. Pulled the case apart, located the jumper, cleared it. Put everything back together and now it starts, checks the cd drives, but the display doesn't come on. Pretty sure I ****** up the BIOS somewhere.
Went to the manufacturer's website (www.msicomputer.com) and downloaded the latest BIOS, tried all their troubleshooting (pulled the battery for several minutes, etc) nothing. Tried booting the system holding CTRL + Home to force it to read the floppy drive and flash the BIOS but either my floppy drive is dead or I dunno what else because it's not reading the floppy disk.
Any thoughts? I'm probably going to take it to the local computer shop with my head hung in shame as all the techies /point and /laugh at me
Specs:
MSI K7N2 Delta 2 (MS-6570E) Motherboard
AMD Sempron 2600 CPU
512mb DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGB Graphics card
Couple of HDD's from my old PC, one primary one slave.
Couple of CD drives from my old PC.
However it was taking forever to load windows and was generally slower than my old pc so I decided to play around with the BIOS settings. I changed this one performance setting from Optimal to Turbo (This upped the voltage on some things and did some other stuff, none of the settings were over manufacturer's specs). It also overclocked my CPU so I manually changed that setting back to no overclocking (I'm still trying to be careful with this system).
Restarted PC, worked GREAT! Loaded way faster. I thought, well there is another setting between Optimal and Turbo (High-Performance) so I thought I would try that setting to see if I still got good speed without beating my system to death (as I said, trying to be careful). Changed that setting and noticed that it changed the voltage on my RAM to 133mhz and it had been at 200mhz so I changed it back to 200.
Rebooted and got an error that said to insert the system disk and hit enter. Hitting enter did nothing. Restarted several times with no luck. Read through my handy manual and it said something about clearing the CMOS. Pulled the case apart, located the jumper, cleared it. Put everything back together and now it starts, checks the cd drives, but the display doesn't come on. Pretty sure I ****** up the BIOS somewhere.
Went to the manufacturer's website (www.msicomputer.com) and downloaded the latest BIOS, tried all their troubleshooting (pulled the battery for several minutes, etc) nothing. Tried booting the system holding CTRL + Home to force it to read the floppy drive and flash the BIOS but either my floppy drive is dead or I dunno what else because it's not reading the floppy disk.
Any thoughts? I'm probably going to take it to the local computer shop with my head hung in shame as all the techies /point and /laugh at me
Specs:
MSI K7N2 Delta 2 (MS-6570E) Motherboard
AMD Sempron 2600 CPU
512mb DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGB Graphics card
Couple of HDD's from my old PC, one primary one slave.
Couple of CD drives from my old PC.
Edit: I run Windows XP.
Edited, Mon Feb 7 10:29:52 2005 by Wintaru