KTE: Why clearing the CMOS has something to do with it? Is it because this peticular MSI motherboard? Maybe switch to another motherboard won't cause the death of your phenom.

Come on KTE, we need you to continue staying with us . Don't give up on Phenom. If phenom is that easy to OC like Q6600, it is not fun at all isn't it?

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sam2008: my last 3 Phenoms had same problem. It's caused by a bad IMC, suddenly it bunks out and won't boot and load the memory. Achim's 9500 has the same problem after a while, he even had the same RAM as mine with similar volts/timings, so did a few others here. The problem as I suspect very much from testing since November, is caused by keeping a large delta in between RAM and IMC volts mainly.

No pushing or overheating, volts were low. I only kept low volts for over a month now, sub 1.3V CPU sub 2.2V MEM and sub 1.1V IMC. It was stock volts for a day. It would never happen if I did not clear CMOS, I know this from testing. With me, it happens only when you clear CMOS, each time, repeatedly and I always dreaded doing so.