Le_Murphant Posted January 5, 2007 CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 Hello. I'm having some trouble booting my OS (Vista build 6000). It worked fine until I tried to overclock with an automatic function in the bios. My motherboard is the ASUS P5LD2 and the option I tried was overclocking with AI Overclocking, with a max of 3% overclock. The processor is core 2 duo 2.13 ghz. I tried reverting the bios to default but it won't help. When I power on, the bios boot screen appears, the screen goes black and scans for IDE devices (appears to find none) and then goes back to a distorted boot screen, and freezes. I can access the bios setup utility, but I'm not sure what to look for. Any ideas for solving my problem? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted January 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 I tried booting on a CD but there is no difference. Tried disabling fastboot, but no difference again. Any ideas? Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted January 5, 2007 CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 have you tried to reset the bios on the motherboard by pulling the jumper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted January 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 nop, i'm completely new to fidgeting with motherboards. There are quite a few jumpers, which one should I try? Should I just take out the lithium battery and replace it? Btw, something really strange happenned. I was fidgeting with it all, I turned my computer on and the fuse for the room went off. Most other appliances in the room were not turned on, and my psu only takes 450 watts. Since I didn't understand right away that the fuse had blown, I went in another room and powered it up and... IT WORKED. I was thrilled, so I started wondering what was going on in the other room, and I figured the fuse had blown, i replaced it, then moved back my comp to its original spot and... it wouldn't boot! Ive tried recreating the exact same circumstances than the time it worked, but Ive been trying for hours and am getting discouraged. Any ideas or is it just a manifestation of chaos theory applied to computers? Also, could anyone drop me a word of what there is to know about master and slave IDE (idk what the terms mean) because I remark that my bios can see my hard drive as a master, but there is no slave, and when its about to boot, it says that IDEs 0,1,2 and 3 are not recognised while my bios sees my HD as ide 4. I also tried booting from a CD, and the bios crashed when its time to boot with a CD or with the HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted January 5, 2007 CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 Save changing fuses. They have screw breaker replacements for those. Similar to these at Homedepot or most any hardware store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted January 5, 2007 CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 Le_Murphant, Take the plug out of the wall and check the wires. The black wire should be on the brass side and the white on the silver side. You may have a reverse polarity going on there. Make sure you turn the breaker off or pull the fuse first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted January 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 WHEW, I did it. I pulled the battery, put it back in, and it worked. Don't ask me why. I'm never touching that overclocking function again . It works, I'm happy. Thanks for you help guys. If a moderator sees this, they can close the thread. There's no moral to take of it other than that computers have no logic whatsoever To Tommie: I actually have breakers at home, but I didn't want to use that term not to confuse them with the breakers inside the computer case. But I do agree: Breaker > Fuse. I didn't know there existed fuse-shaped breakers tho, thx for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted January 5, 2007 CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 Good! Glad you got it fixed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted January 5, 2007 CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 WHEW, I did it. I pulled the battery, put it back in, and it worked. Don't ask me why. I'm never touching that overclocking function again . It works, I'm happy. Thanks for you help guys. If a moderator sees this, they can close the thread. There's no moral to take of it other than that computers have no logic whatsoever To Tommie: I actually have breakers at home, but I didn't want to use that term not to confuse them with the breakers inside the computer case. But I do agree: Breaker > Fuse. I didn't know there existed fuse-shaped breakers tho, thx for the info. thats another way to reset the bios. glad you got it fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 5, 2007 CID Share Posted January 5, 2007 you simply dont overclock from inside windows...it isnt a good thing, i guess thats all i can say here hehehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted January 7, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hadent done it from inside, it was from my bios, and I agree that doing it from inside windows isn't great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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