My Overclocking experience... need help

[Atomic_Sheep]

under power management, theres a setting to go from 32 to 64 bit.

[Dark Mantis]

Oh I see you are meaning the HPET settings. Yes you can change it to 64 if you want although it doesn't really make a lot of difference.

[Atomic_Sheep]

Well, just loaded optimised settings, changed to RAID, HPET and switched off the logo thing. Restarted, system turned off, turned back on, got to the DMI page, and got stuck. I restarted, changed the boot order to CD first and put the windows disc in and it loaded my already installed system except now I've lost my registration with Kaspersky and I'm guessing my windows activation won't work anymore. Anyway, restarted changed boot order back to hdd first and cd second and now its stuck on DMI again. sigh.

[Dark Mantis]

Well I have just been checking up on all the things that can cause this and I think the best thing is to remove all your drives apart form one and try and boot. If that is successful you can try adding more drives one at a time and testing as you go.

[Atomic_Sheep]

Under CMOS settings, there are no drives listed however when I boot up the system, the RAID configuration is listed as Normal.

[Dark Mantis]

OK next try disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS

[Atomic_Sheep]

It (the floppy) wasn't disabled with a fresh F5 but I couldnt access the RAID configurator in F5 by pressing Cltr I no matter how many times I tried this time so I installed F6 again... went into Ctrl I and deleted the other raid volume and created a new one... installed windows again... looks like I forogot to change the date and time so Kaspersky didn't like that... changed the date and time to the correct setting now and its working again. However with the F6, I'm still getting the system which is getting stuck at the DMI stage and only goes past it if I have CD as the first boot device and the win 7 disc in there.

With the F6 update, it automatically disabled the floppy drive... but when I deleted and created a new RAID volume, after resetting the computer after the installation, the CMOS no longer had any drives detected... no HDDs no Blu ray no DVD. So I'm guessing CMOS lost all the devices when I deleted the RAID volume.

So basically... after installing F6 again straight after the fresh install, it had all my drives detected with the floppy automatically getting deleted i.e. its stated as "none" but as soon as I deleted the RAID volume and created a new one and installed windows, the remaining 4hdds and my blu ray and dvd dissappeared from the CMOS menu and I'm now unable to boot. Well... I'm booting via the dvd method atm.

[Dark Mantis]

I think the only way we are going to get to the bottom of this is if we take it back to a basic configuration.

Pull everything off the board apart from the CPU/heatsink/fan assembly, one module of memory in each of the first three slots ( 6GB), the buzzer, the keyboard/mouse, the graphics card, optical drive and a single hard drive that you are going to load windows on.
 
You can do this in or out of the case whichever you prefer. I would suggest outside as it is easier to check and move things around if needed.

[Atomic_Sheep]

1HDD, 1 video card, 1 cpu, 6gb of memory, 1 optical drive, 1 mouse, 1 keyboard, 1 DVI card slot taken in the video card to 1 monitor, no other usb devices connected... press power button... fans spin, blue case power led lights up, video card fan works at full speed but nothing else happens... screen doesnt turn on, BIOS doesn't load and the system is stuck in that pre loaded BIOS state.

Tried resetting CMOS, tried adding more hdds... same deal, doesnt boot bios anymore.

[Dark Mantis]

Lets try booting from the Backup BIOS then and see if that helps in case this Main BIOS is corrupt.

You can kick in the backup BIOS by shutting down the PSU from the wall, then hold down your case power button in and then turn on the power supply button, a few seconds later the board will start, shut off the power supply then.   
Then you can turn on the power supply again and power up the board normally and DualBIOS will kick in.

[Atomic_Sheep]

Tried that proceedure a few times... nope nothing happens... same deal... fans working etc etc but no bios loaded...

[Dark Mantis]

I will PM you shortly.

[Atomic_Sheep]

The computer starts by itself the final time that I turn on the PSU.