I Changed the bios and now my computer will not start

[pjump]

Hi
In the BIOS I changed the CPU speed from 100mhz to 133mhz. I also at the same time changed the ram speed from 100mhz to 133mhz. When I rebooted the computer will not start. No video and the HD activity light stays on most of the time.
Can ayone help me out of my screw up????


Thank you


Rick

 

[Comtech]

Dig up the manual for the motherboard, and look for the "Clear CMOS" jumper. Follow the instructions.
If you can't find it, take the battery off the motherboard for about 5 minutes. Either will reset the BIOS to defaults (usually) and at least you'll be able to boot. Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[Tribbled]

Another Overclocking attempt gone wrong *sigh*

But I don't under stand when you say you increased you CPU from 100>133 *Thats fine* the hard bit is your RAM from 100>133???

Someone correct me if I am wrong but any board that supports 75Mhz>233Mhz Socket7 CPUs only take 66MhzSDRAM or 33mhz EDO Or 16Mhz Fast Page RAM

 

[johnodq]

Tribbled, EDO !!! Are you slightly out of date with your memory specifications ??? ;-)

DIMM Modules on most modern systems run at either 100Mhz or 133Mhz, unless the board is running DDR which runs at 266,333,400Mhz then theres the very expensive RAMBUS which runs at over 500Mhz.

Chances are the system mentioned above is NOT a Socket 8 more likely a Socket A, or Socket 478 or similar.

The following link shows some details of newer standards.

http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/Sockets.htm

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[pjump]

Thank you I got it!!!!!!!!

 

[Comtech]

Might we ask how? Cheers,
Jim

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[pjump]

Hi,
thank you guys for your help. To explain things a little better this is what I did, I went in the bios cpu settings and changed the following:
1. Cpu speed from 100\100MHz to 133\133MHz
2. DRAM frequency from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.
3. The computer would not start after the changes.
4. I did like you guys said and cleared the bios by the jumpers.
4. I’m up and running again
The reason why I made the change was because I thought because the SDRAM was 133MHz the cpu speed need to match. Iguess I was wrong. Thanks for all the help. I appreciate it!!

pjump