I think I ruined my motherboard [cpu soft menu] [abit wb6]
Q: Greetings all,
This is an older system used for backing up files to. It is an Abit WB6 a Celeron 300A 128MB PC100 and sports. Now at some point I started the system a few times without RAM installed. By the time, I noticed the obvious, had, I installed a new video card. Could this have been damaged somehow by turning several times without memory?
The problem is that no matter what I specify in the CPU Soft Menu, the CPU speed 366MHz or 550MHz will either. The error message is “CPU is unworkable.” I can go by pressing F1, but because they are overclocked speeds, Windows will not start (NTLDR missing error). The IDE hard disk disappears guide choppy and even when I go through redetection, sometimes will start and say I have no hard drives. I have the CMOS battery, but that did not. I have to unplug the system and allow the dismissal soemtimes if that helps, but the results were the same.
So it is safe to say that the motherboard is messed up? I have no problem with them because they replace old parts, but I would like to hear opinions. Thanks!
Re:Good thinking. I just tried that. But it didn't help — I still get weird speeds no matter what I enter. So the board and/or CPU is bad.
Re:have you tried flashing the bios?
Re:I discharged the CMOS with the jumper. I tried failsafe defaults. I tried 4.5 x 66Mhz (297MHz) on "User Define" settings as well as 3.0 x 100MHz. I still get 366MHz. I have never had any luck with running this system overclocked. Most likely, something went bad hardware-wise. I remember when I was trying to remove the battery with a tweezer, I accidentally scraped the tweezer on the board… It's possible that could have damaged it, but it sounds unlikely.
Re:can't say i'm familiar with the motherboard, but is it possible you are accidentally overclocking your chip?
A 300A is running at 4.5 multiplier x 66mhz FSB/RAM. 366 would be 5.5 x 66, and 550 is 5.5 x 100.
I don't know how you would have unlocked the multiplier, I'm pretty sure they were locked on P2/Celerons, but it might be something to look into. The 300A is a great overclocked and should hit 4.5 x 100mhz = 450mhz easily, so who knows.
Re:It doesn't make much sense to me that starting up without memory could do something like this…
Although taking the battery out and also discharging the PC should do this anyway, have you tried changing the CMOS jumper to "Clear CMOS" and powering up, power down, switch back to normal and powering up again?
Why won't windows start if you try and run overclocked to 366mhz again? I am not that familair with the 300A, can it not handle 366mhz?
Jamie
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