Overclocked cpu to 1.66 and now laptop wont start

Yep... I can say I f'd up. Tried to oc to 1.66 just to see how fast it'd be it shut down and now wont start. when i press the power button it attempts to turn on fan is loud as heck. and makes a click sound and shuts down Ive tried holding the power button down for 1 min. but still no luck =[ battery is sitting at full charge and im afraid i broke my little beast after hours of updating drivers installing new themes and games =[

 

Wait for a while. Could be that your comp is overheated and it'll start up again once it cools

 

Keep hard-resetting the laptop. Many desktop BIOS'es will automatically attempt to reset to default BIOS settings, if there is some kind of detection of a multiple failed boots. Maybe you'll get lucky, and the M11x will have the same feature.

If that doesn't work, call Dell. It was discussed in this thread below that using the BIOS settings to overclock the CPU does not invalidate your warranty. Only by using some 3rd party tool and bypassing the settings available through the BIOS would you invalidate your warranty:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ware-m11x-oc-void-warranty-3.html#post5929689

 

What revision do you have? If you have the R1 and you did an overclock through the BIOS you should be fine. I'm sorry to hear your laptop broke but that's the risk you run when you overclock anything on a PC.

 

+1

I have seen this happen to a few desktops before. Usually 3-4 hard resets will set the bios back to default.

 

Thanks for all the comments fellas and yes sadly i just talked to one of the rep's I called back because I knew using their tool in the boot menu would not void my warranty. I talked to another rep. he walked me through it and i booted up with 1 memory stick changed the Cpu speed setting back and shut it down put it all back together and its up and running again. Although my games seem to run slower now but atleast i have my pc back

 

Booted with 1 memory stick? Heck I would just leave the bad one out and keep playing with the OC at a slightly lower level...

Glad you got it resolved ! Nothing gives your stomach the butterflies like when a thousand dollar notebook doesn't make post.

Best Wishes, StevenX

 

Since it booted with one memory stick while still in the overclock mode, I'm thinking you may have an underperforming memory stick. *most* su7300's are capable of better than 1900mghz sooo, I'd be looking at some other component.

I run at bios overclock 24/7 and the diff in temps are negligble.

Seer

 

thats sneaky. the removed memory stick must have flagged a hardware change in the bios allowing you to get in it. glad everything is working for you

 

Perhaps you should switch out the memory stick for a new one?

 

thank you all for the feedback I found the problem heh.. i opened up ccleaner said i only had 2 gigs of ram when i have four so i popped the back off took the sticks out and put them back in and now it seems way smoother and back to perfect shape.

 

The failed OC probably had nothing to do with the RAM so why would he replace it? (as several have told him to do). The reason the tech told him to remove one stick was so the BIOS would detect a hardware change and revert back to default clock settings, same thing usually happens when you add/remove RAM in your PC, will detect different size of RAM and clock back to normal, so you will have to OC again.

 

The memory stick was not bad. What happened, was without that memory stick, the BIOS detects a Hardware change, and runs at stock settings until you configure it, putting the CPU speed back to stock.

 

Ahh. I feel enlightened.

 

Lol. its all good fellas, no need to argue when the problem is resolved. I thank you all though

 

Could you OC again after having your machine back from death?

 

The triggering of the successful reboot by removing one of the sticks had nothing to do with why it wouldn't overclock in the first place. I may have missed it but I didn't see whether the OP has now tried to overclock again and been successful.

I suggested trying different memory solely for the purpose of establishing whether the O/C limiting component was memory or something else. If you do enough overclocking you will be surprised at the degree of variance between supposedly identical memory sticks. I once took a bet that I could break 2.1 ghz on a netbook with the 1.6 atom. Swapping out 'identical' mem chips got me from just a hair over 2.0, to just a hair under 2.2.

Seer