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Hey everyone,

 

Yes, I know, what I've done is stupid. Shouldn't have happened. It's what I had coming to me after tinkering with my computer too late in the night.

 

Anyway, here's what happened:

 

I accidently exited CMOS without turning down my FSB, so I ended up booting my XP-M at 11x250 by accident, and my Infinity didn't like that.

 

So now I'm stuck. I took out the battery, unplugged everything, cleared CMOS all night (about 8 hours), and when I plugged it all back in, still no POST.

 

Would this kill the board? Or is there hope?

 

 

Odie :)

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Questions:

 

First tricks

1st attempt. 1 finger on insert key, then power up (more fingers on insert key never seems to help :rolleyes: )

 

2nd attempt. yank 100 FSB jumper (makes it 100 FSB)

 

Post results and answers to below....

 

1. Which bios?

 

2. What chips are mushkin lvl1 (are they ch5

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Originally posted by mad mikee

 

First tricks

1st attempt. 1 finger on insert key, then power up (more fingers on insert key never seems to help :rolleyes: )

 

2nd attempt. yank 100 FSB jumper (makes it 100 FSB)

 

If I have done these correctly, then they did not work :(

 

 

Originally posted by mad mikee

Post results and answers to below....

 

1. Which bios?

 

2. What chips are mushkin lvl1 (are they ch5

 

1. 1/31 Bios

 

2. CH-5 indeed.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Odie :)

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1/31 should be okay (no funky bootup stuff like current bios (which I am of course using :nod: ))

 

1. do fans/etc power up ?

 

2. what are keyboard lites doing when you turn on PSU and then board?

 

3. Sometimes the board 'thinks' for a while (up to 15 secs?) b4 figuring out what to do. Have you waited that long?

 

4. When you keep holding/pressing the power key (assuming stuff powers up) does it power off after about 4-5 secs?

 

5. Try holding down reset key for 5 secs then releasing after no boot but power on.

 

6. Sometimes even c-a-d (3 fingers) works :shake:

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Well,

 

Not sure what I did, but I'm typing from my system right now!

 

I tried a technique I read in another post where the CMOS clear setting is tripped briefly about 50 times. I did that, and then left it in the clear setting with the battery removed for a few more hours, and it booted right up!

 

Thanks Mikee for your help. I hope I won't be back for this!

 

Odie :)

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