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Originally Posted by cybermike
Does your bios have a critical temp alarm? I have a similar motherboard that will sound an alarm and shutdown if the temp gets over 72C. It saved my ass when I set my clock speed up too high. If you did have that, it seems like it'd shut it down before any harm was done. Also, Did the computer ever POST after you set the clock speed up? It seems like the comp could make it past POST at least once before it overheated enough to fry the mobo and/or processor.
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the overheat alarm may not have caught it, he made a huge jump in mhz, easily enough to fry the CPU instantly. second, if you ae going to overclock your system, you should get better cooling, and not rely on that sensor to stop you. its there to stop you when a fan fails.
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Originally Posted by Moyaboy
When you said the harddrives boot up, are they being accessed? By that I mean can you hear them working, such as the pin hitting the platter?
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there is no pin, the read head never toutches the platter. but hard drives will produce noise when they are only given power. but it is not a sign of life from the system.