Ever sense my friend told me to overclock my comp so much that it spazzed out I've been having problems. When my friend told me to overclock it, I did and it messed up, so the Cmos had to be pulled. That worked fine. But eversense, whenever I try to shut down my comptuer, and turn it back on, it does not work.. I must pull the power cord out from the back, then wait a few seconds, and then plug it back in, and everything works fine. Is there any reason for this?

Anyone have any sugestions?

Make sure your OS is FULLY updated from Micro$oft.
If this does help a repair may be in order.
If you would give us more information as to your machine's specs we may be able to help better.
As a mnimum we need to know what OS you are using.

Thanks for the reply.

First off I use Windows Xp professional edition. What happened in the first place,was my friend told me to over clock my computer, so I did, and when I restarted, it made a loud high pitch beep continuously. So I shut it off, and my friend told me to pull out the CMOS, so I did. Now for some reason, every time I shut down my computer, I cannot turn it on without it just turning on(the monitor not turning on) or it making a loud high pitch beep(and not turning on). It sounds like the computer is starting up fine, just the moniter is not turning on. And for some reason, the only way I can fix this, is if I unplug the back and replug it back in, or pull the cmos out again..

It is also just for when I shutdown, I can restart, or put it on standby or anyting else.

Where can I update my OS?? Off Microsoft website, or is there some special way to do it?

Any sugestions?

By CMOS do you mean the CPU? The CMOS is a chip that contains the BIOS information and is welded on to the motherboard.

Reboot your machine, and then go into the CMOS setup. Then go to the CPU settings that you changed to overclock your CPU. You overclock your CPU by mainly changing the FSB settings or the Clock multiplier. You may have had to change voltages for your memory or CPU. Reset those back to factory defaults being careful NOT to change your entire CMOS to factory default. Save and restart.

Report back on results and also if you have a chance tell us what type of Motherboard (Make/Model) you have, CPU, etc.

Good Luck

Casey

When you say you "pulled out the cmos" I think you meant that you pulled the cmos battery... am I correct?. if you did then that solved none of your problems... you need to do a reset of the cmos with the motherboards CMOS jumper... it will roll back all your BIOS settings to default and you can try to overclock the proper way... 1 MHZ increments of your FSB at a time...

Try possibly switching to another power supply because it sounds like you didn't adjust the power supply correctly either and its sending out some bad juice...

Good luck

I pulled the CMOS jumper, the little thing, that you can slip off the 3 prongs, and yes, it did restart the BIOS, because before when I had overlocked to too much, I couldn't start it up w/ out it making a beep. So once I did pull the CMOS, I looked in the BIOS, and the speed had gone back to default. What about the voltage where you saying? Everything was set back to default, so that may be the problem.. Im not sure what I should put the voltage at, I can tell you what is at. If you would like..

I have a Abit vt7, 2.4 ghz I think..

Thanks for the responses, please keep them coming :D

The voltages should have reset if I remember correctly... go into the power option on your bios and there should be voltage readings... makes sure they stay steady and don't fluctuate all over the place

Lets say if, it does fluncuate all over the place, would that mean that the voltage is off. Sorry I can't tell your gight now because I am out of town atm, but I will be back Sunday..

How would I fix the voltage?


Another thing I don't get is, why can I restart and everything else?

And why when I pull the power cord from the back, a few times, does it start to work

It truly sounds like a power related issue... have you tried to replace the supply with a higher wattage?the minimum for any system nowadays is around 300 watts... unless u have a microatx system which uses less... I'd try to replace the power supply first... borrow from your friend since he owes you 1 anyway for messin with your system:p

Good luck

OK, thanks, ill make sure, first thing when I get home, to try and do that.. lets hope it works, if it doesn't, ill have to bother you for some more knowledge :P. But anyway, if it is something with my powersupply, why did it work before? I only started having this problem once I restarted the BIOS.:eek:

If it was a crappy powersupply anything can make those things go bad... lol... always invest in a good powersupply

I was just looking in my bios and everything for voltage when back to normal.. how do I check the readings? I switched my power cord around and nothing changed :confused: there was a switch on the back, that showed I could flick it on one side for 115 v or another side for 240v.. but when I did that it shut down like 20 minutes later, and sounded like it was flickering..

I've sen that swith but never slid it across... take a read at this.. it may help... PC Power Supply Failure Diagnostics - Computer ATX Power Supply Troubleshooting
and Repair (http://www.fonerbooks.com/power.htm)

Thanks that website was veryhelpfull, the top paragraph explains everything that I can see/hear. So now I'm convinced it is the powersupply myself.. do you have any idea what kind I should get?

I've been a fan of Enermax and Antec or Thermaltake for awhile but there are other quality products on the market... DON'T buy a GENERIC NO NAME...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153023
You CANNOT beat the price OR quality of this Power Supply IMO