Hello guys.
Just wanna share some of my experiences here.

My motherboard, Biostar TForce 570U got 3 slots of PCI.
I never use the bottom one since that is the place for my UV CCFL switch.
I placed my soundcard (Creative SoundBlaster 5.1) at the 3rd slot from the bottom.

Unfortunately, my PC cannot detect the soundcard anymore AFTER I overclocked my PC on the last 3~4 months.

So I changed the soundcard to the 2nd slot from the bottom.
Everything went fine, until yesterday, my PC cannot detect it again AFTER I overclocked my rig to 2.7GHz.

I did try to un-install and re-install it back, took it out and placed it back, but nothing happened. The system refused to detect my soundcard.

So I would like to know, is this consequences of overclocking ?
And why did this thing happened ? I didn't touch any of PCI part during overclocking.
Hope you guys can help me solve this problem.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by kalakatu: Jun 4 2007, 06:22 PM

sorry for the late reply..

for the first damage, that time i didnt update my bios yet, and there was no option for pci clock in BIOS..

after i updated the bios, there is an option, and it default clocked at 100MHz..
and to be honest, during overclocking, i never touched it..
the 2nd damaged happened after the bios was updated..

so since i never touched anything regarding pci clock during overclocking, i never expect this thing would have happened..

it could be..but i cant guarantee yet..

anyway, im currently facing a crappy sound produced from my onboard soundcard

and one more question, can i send this motherboard to RMA ? im asking this becoz the damage might came from the overclocking...

what was the damage on ur gigabyte motherboard ?

well, i doubt they will help me RMA it easily since they seems very knowledgeable with overclocking and its consequences..

This post has been edited by kalakatu: Jun 3 2007, 09:09 PM

yup indeed they are skillful..
well, ill try to act n00b, but im not confident since they already knew that i bought that motherboard for the purpose of overclocking

agreed..better i edit my post above

another problem occurred..

now my system suffering a random shut down..the pc will just 'padam' like blackout..
it will occur anytime, when watching anime, when listening to winamp, even when idle..

im pretty sure its not becoz of temperature, since currently im running my pc with the default setting, no overclocking..

is it happened becoz of virus or perhaps hardware failure ?

if hardware failure, which one might be; motherboard or processor ?

thanks in advance

currently everything's running on stock..
i dun think its power supply..power supply wont get damaged by overclocking right ? especially its not chapalang psu..

will try on ram..maybe use 1 stick on time and see how..

of course..how can i be able to use the pc if that part not connected

weird..last night no shut down at all..it only happened before 9pm..
ok, ill google it and see how..
thanks

which do u think is failure ? is it my motherboard, or my processor, or ram ?

thanks for the vote
i think i need to create a poll

anyway thanks..
will examine later

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Added on June 5, 2007, 6:16 pmUpdate;

I sent the motherboard to RMA just now. Luckily those guys didn't ask much.
He just asked only 1 question - Do you overclock ?, so I said I don't know how to overclock.
They said Biostar is quite fast, around 2 weeks my motherboard will be ready.
So I wont be able to frequently online like before. Now using my dad's PC to surfing.

Thread closed.
Will reopen again if still got problem after RMA it.
Thanks for the contribution.

This post has been edited by kalakatu: Jun 5 2007, 06:16 PM