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I got home today and my computer was off and i turned it on and it powered on for 2 seconds then turned off and would not power on again. I inspected inside and saw label on top of the chipset fan was melted and I noticed it was not running. So guess got hot enough to melt label, plastic didnt melt tho. So could my chipset also be fried? I would think it would run without the fan but not for long / high load. When I reset the CMOS (do i do the jumper with power off or on and for how long again?) and reset the power it. It will turn on but wont even give a beep POST just sit there with fans running. Do you think the chipset is fried or should it run after some sort of perfect reset? Thanks,

Yeah make sure power to your SATA HD is unhooked. Try with that off to first get into BIOS.

Yeah Ive had similar problem and got good answers. See this thread: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25969

Ok im on 705 and i used that trick and it works. I then i have to use ESC and select my SATA manually. Problem I have had though, I chose 4x FTT Multi or I could even choose the Default now that I leanred the SATA Problem. But in windows after some time at 4x (800 htt) it would crash. Which confuses me as it should run and did run before 4x fine. I think i didnt have some of the voltages hih enough i just will be running them higher than normal. Im gonna spend most of this weekend fooling around with allt his and seeing what works best. Thanks for all your help guys, what I thought my hardware problem was is really a BIOSish problem.

Alright, that is currently what I am doing. I'm on the 705 BIOS now. For some reason it would not get into windows on HTT Multi at 4x though so I'm at 3x until I figure all that out. Also gonna test each stick of my memory alone and then test them together in single channel mode and test them together in dual channel mode. Isnt it true that u wont get the same results in dual channel (overclock as much) as you do in single channel?

Ah, ok I will try this but here is the problem. I could just leave everything default and never go into the BIOS and things would work, but I have to go into the BIOS to change my SATA HD to be the first boot device as my other IDE HD's are before it. If I dissconnect the SATA HD abd Boot into BIOS then I wont have it as the first boot option when I reconnect it, or is there a trick to get around this?

Ah, so this is a bug that cant be fixed. Ill do more reseach on my memory, but im more concerned as to why I cannot run the HTT Multiplier at Default (is Default 5x?) And why my FSB resets to 217 no matter what I put it at? Isnt the default for a 3500+ Venice FSB 200 x 5 = 1000 x 2 = 2000 Hyper Transport? Say I dont want to overclock right now. And im a noob (tho im not) I want to leave everything in the BIOS to default cause I dont know what im doing and I dont want to overclock, so I change the things I need to, like the boot sequence. Then I go to save the settings and it wont even post after that, wtf? Im beginning to think the Memory Controller on my CPU might have gone a little bad. Details of my original problem: I was not overclocking, my computer worked fine after I updated to a newer BIOS everything worked fine for month or so. I came home one day and my computer was off and would not turn on at all. I unhooked power and hooked it back up. Turned it on and it would not post it would keep reseting before it even POSTed. I tried to clear the CMOS but still could not POST. So i sent the board back for RMA and got it back yesterday and now i have the problem in this thread. So perhaps it was actually my CPU that went bad? Its working except when HTT Multi is at default or 5x, but it should work at those, eh? If the 824 BIOS has this problem then whats the nest best BIOS to use?

I got my MOBO back yesterday from RMA cause I had a problem with it. So I hooked everything back up, booted up, got into the BIOS to change the boot sequence, I left all the CPU / Memory setting to default. When I did a Save and Exit, the computer would then not post it would just keep reseting. (This was actually similar to problem i returned it for) So I cleared the CMOS via jumper and got back into the BIOS, I changed the HTT Multi to 4x and it would then boot but reset once it got into windows. So I got into the BIOS again to find that my FSB was now at 217 mhz. I switched it back down to 200 but when I Save and Exit and go back into the BIOS it is still at 217. No Matter what I changed the FSB to it would go back to 217, this is with the HTT Multi at 4x or 3x. Problem here is 217 is too high for my memory with so I crach in Windows, but I want my memory to stay at 200, but every time I get reset to this 217. (I could run windows fine if I set the memory at a low speed like 166 or 133 but obviously I dont want that I would like it at 200. Any ideas?

which rule am I not following now?

I got home from work today and my computer was off. I pushed the power button, it did not turn on. I unplugged the power and plugged it back in then it turned ou but it did not post. Nothing on the monitor, no signal at all, so I switched in different video card to see if that was the problem and it was not. I reset the bios, still same problem. It powers up, all fans run except the chipset fan (i dunno if thats normal). Hard drives seek, but I get no post, no beeps of any kind. Trying to figure out what it could be but I get no beeps to find out. If its the processor then thats fine, but I just need to know I dont know how to test that without having another. Any ideas? Thanks. Eric