chrispm84

Hi. I was overclocking a while back, and I made a terrible noob mistake. I was trying to find the perfect voltage to overclock my Athlon 2.2 processor to a stable 2.6. I accomplished this before, but reset it, due to heat issues. I got a much better heatsink/fan and wanted to try again. All of my overclocking abilities come from the bios on the motherboard. I'd try a voltage, restart, and (if it failed to boot) take the cmos battery out to reset it. I'd done this about 6 times and got kind of lazy. So, I decided that I didn't need to turn off/unplug the PSU. Well, the first time I reset after I decided I was too good to have to unplug the PSU, I dropped the cmos battery on the graphics card and it leaned against the motherboard. I immediately yanked the cord out the wall and tried to restart... but to no avail. Now I have a custom built PC that just sits on a desk, I have to use my laptop... with Vista... Anyway, I'm finally ready to start rebuilding it, but wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on want the problem might be. I feel it's smarter to get some ideas, than to just start replacing everything. I figure it's a short, but not sure where. There're no obvious shorts anywhere in case and I tried a different graphics card, so it's not the graphics card, or at least not JUST the graphics card... I even took apart the PSU to check for shorts and checked the output with a volt meter, so I'm pretty sure it's not that, either. So, let the flood gates open! If you have any, and I mean ANY, ideas... Let me know! Thanks in advance for any/all replies!