i was fiddling in my bios, nothing too terrible, just upping my overclock, most if not all of the settings were "recommended" by asus guys, so i load windows and blue screen, go in, drop some settings a bit, blue screen, couple more times, then i load into the bios, it locks up on me, and bang, system "dead"
the problem is, everything is "running" fine
all the leds are fine, memok, power etc, fans spin (heatsink, gfx card, hard drives all spin (and can do for .. well, forever till i switch it off), i stripped everything out and tried a basic boot, (psu, mobo, cpu/hs), and i got the ram beep code, shoved a stick of ram in, now i get no beep codes (should be a no vga one? [there's no onboard]) throughout all of this (the times when the gfx card was attached, the monitor insisted there was no signal), if i plug my mouse into the usb slots, it lights up (though not my keyboard, but i'm not sure any of the lights normally do light up (numlock etc)
i've done a wee bit of checking around and heard that if you don't get the beep codes after installing a stick of ram, then it could well be the ram to blame, one of the settings i did alter in the bios was upping my ram from 1333 to 1600 (i have 1600 ram), i've tried both sticks of ram in all the configurations, all slots, both sticks singles etc, no change
oh, and one of the first things i did was reset the cmos thingy to reset all my changes (did this after the first failed screen)
any ideas what i cocked up? :P
(i might be able to lend some ram/gfx card off my brother to test tomorrow, but other than that, nothing else i have handy to swap around)
/sigh, the joys of fiddling
(i5 2500k, asus p8p67le mobo (no onboard gfx), corsair xms 1600 ram, 2x4gig, gtx 570, corsair tx650psu)