I recently sold my Pentium 4 PC on and its causing the new owner nothing but problems, whereas when here it was rock solid at 3.3Ghz everyday for a year.
Spec:
Pentium 4 2.4c CPU *NOT OVERCLOCKED*
Asus P4P800 Motherboard
512 PC4000 Corsair RAM
128MB XFX GeForce 6600GT
80GB OS/Programs drive
120GB Storage Drive
DVD-Rom
380w Tagan PSU
She rings me up one day - "The PC Rebooted, and is stuck with the error "Overclocking Failed - Press F2 to enter setup" and won't go any further. I go round, enter the BIOS, and its STOCK. I load defaults, exit and save changes - boots.
Its fine for a month then i get a text - "That same thing has come up again" I told her what to do, and its fine for a few hours.
This time, it reboots, and doesnt do anything. The monitor light blinks from orange to blue, then back to orange. So I asked her to leave it alone til I could go and have a look.
Day before yesterday I go to have a look. Thinking it may just need a simple CMOS reset or something. So I:-
held insert at boot - Nothing
Put CMOS jumper in reset position, leave for 2 mins after running power through, then replace - Nothing
Re-seat heatsink/fan and CPU - Nothing
By this point I'm thinking somethings given up, maybe the motherboard? May explain the BIOS getting all "Forgetful?"
Oh I need to go for a second look today, I'm thinking of just stripping the thing right down and re-building as that can usually sort out some boot problems. Also i have a few spare parts (1.8 cpu/fx5200/abit 478 motherboard) so will do some trial and error if the rebuild doesnt work.
Any help apprieciated