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Quite probably the Mobo then.
Pretty rare nowadays, but I suppose its still possible.
My systems tend to be on the limit of catching fire when I overclock, and i'm surprised I have never killed anything.
Was sufficient air being blown over the voltage regulators for the CPU ?
Thats the only thing I can think of that would get very hot, but the mobo makers know this and tend to put nice big radiators on them...
That and the fact that Core arch. takes less power than my Pentium D setup, which is pushing the board to its limits.
My mobo actually switches off very "roughly" ie it just cuts everything as if there was a power cut on reboot. It started doing this once I went out of spec on the FSB for the CPU.
I'm not surprised since some of my previous mobos have done the same.
Thats why my fans and watercooling are on an old external 200W AT PSU.
That makes sure that even if I have a severe power failure in the PC, the cooling doesn't shut down.
I'm using an ASUS P5WD2 and it is very stable, even when I over do it, and yes, it just reboots at standard settings when that happens.
Maybe the BIOS is corrupted, that would sort of explain the Mobo's attempt to start the POST sequence, spinning up the GPU Fan (it receives a certain signal from the Mobo), and then just stalls, staying forever at that point, pre-POST.
I suppose you'll be better off when you've done some tests on another mobo.
good luck ;-)
p.s. i'm not sure if this (Turn off PSU. Hold "Insert", switch on PSU and switch on PC until a beep.) works on a USB keyboard. I've only had it work on PS/2 Keyboards. Probably something to do with the initialisation of the USB bus...
Pretty rare nowadays, but I suppose its still possible.
My systems tend to be on the limit of catching fire when I overclock, and i'm surprised I have never killed anything.
Was sufficient air being blown over the voltage regulators for the CPU ?
Thats the only thing I can think of that would get very hot, but the mobo makers know this and tend to put nice big radiators on them...
That and the fact that Core arch. takes less power than my Pentium D setup, which is pushing the board to its limits.
My mobo actually switches off very "roughly" ie it just cuts everything as if there was a power cut on reboot. It started doing this once I went out of spec on the FSB for the CPU.
I'm not surprised since some of my previous mobos have done the same.
Thats why my fans and watercooling are on an old external 200W AT PSU.
That makes sure that even if I have a severe power failure in the PC, the cooling doesn't shut down.
I'm using an ASUS P5WD2 and it is very stable, even when I over do it, and yes, it just reboots at standard settings when that happens.
Maybe the BIOS is corrupted, that would sort of explain the Mobo's attempt to start the POST sequence, spinning up the GPU Fan (it receives a certain signal from the Mobo), and then just stalls, staying forever at that point, pre-POST.
I suppose you'll be better off when you've done some tests on another mobo.
good luck ;-)
p.s. i'm not sure if this (Turn off PSU. Hold "Insert", switch on PSU and switch on PC until a beep.) works on a USB keyboard. I've only had it work on PS/2 Keyboards. Probably something to do with the initialisation of the USB bus...
Fractal Design Arc Mini R2, 3800X, Asus B450M-PRO mATX, 2x8GB B-die@3800C16, AMD Vega64, Seasonic 850W Gold, Black Ice Nemesis/Laing DDC/EKWB 240 Loop (VRM>CPU>GPU), Noctua Fans.
I definitely have sufficient airflow.
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