Do you get smoke?

[Remik]

Or do they just stop working when you go too far?<BR>I am wondering what sort, if any, warnings you get that you are pushing your machine to far?<BR>Does it just start playing up so you unclock it a little to fix or does it just stop?

[DeanLowe]

Smoking is bad for you and your computer. <BR><BR>At least that's what the Surgeon General keeps saying.

[TranceJunkieXL]

LOL Dean. Good one.<BR>Remik, the CPU will only smoke if you remove the HSF completely, and then it will go up in smoke in less than 3 seconds. Usually what happens if you push your processor too far, is that it won't post, or will crash everytime you try to open a program in Windows. As long as you have a good cooler on that thing and don't push the vcore voltage over 1.85v you should be okay. If it does reach a point where you can't post, just shut it down, clear the CMOS and start all over again.

[Remik]

By clear the CMOS, do you mean flick the little battery thing out?<BR><BR>I realise this is possibly newby stuff, but thats me. <BR><BR>Lately i have had to RMA my Ti4200 (just like everyone else in the world) and then my mobo went belly up. No usual with ASUS boards so i am told. So am wondering wtf i did if anything. Have ordered a Coolmaster hac-v81 kit with a t-3b thermal probe to monitor things properly. HOPE it wont happen again.. as far as i can figure it wasn't anything i did or was doing, just a bit of rotten luck.

[TranceJunkieXL]

Either remove the battery or switch the jumper that should also be somewhere around there. I find the jumper to be easier to use than trying to get that darn battery to pop out. lol.<BR>How did your mobo "go belly up?" Did it just stop posting? Clearing the CMOS should fix that. If not, you may have a corrupted BIOS, and excaliberpc.com carries BIOS survival kits with instructions on how to get things running again.

[Remik]

Yeah, it just stopped posting. I did flick the battery out but alas. When i pulled the ram module out it beeped but back in nothing. I tucked my machine under my arm and took it into the shop. Kinda got beyond me at that point.<BR><BR>The up shot is i get a new mobo and i have a much better understanding of it. AND if the importer cant get one then they will get a newer one. I live in hope.

[TranceJunkieXL]

So the shop didn't have an extra BIOS to hot swap your original one with? I'll bet that was what was wrong with it.<BR>Sorry to hear about it Remik. I await an RMA number from excaliberpc.com for my NF7-S and 1700+JIUHB. Shouldn't have taken this long, so maybe I'll send another email to find out what their problem is.

[Avid6eek]

FYI - By the time you see smoke, it's too late.

[BAM!]

what shiznit said ! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">

[DeanLowe]

That's why you should always listen to the Surgeon General. "Smoking can kill you" and your PC.