Overclocking and Need Help....

[Keith75]

I have had a similar problem with my machine with the last 3 motherboards I have had in it. I notice that when running moderately overclocked that after running for 4 or 5 days this will happen. It is usually triggered by my double clicking on a folder or trying to open my computer or a folder. What happens is everything except the desktop picture will dissappear, explorer will quit, and then reappear and I can then continue as normal. I am not 100% sure this is caused by the overclocking, I am just assuming it is. Has anyone else had anything like this on a machine? If it is caused by overclocking it seems to be the fault of the FSB setting because it will do it with the CPU running at stock speed but the FSB speed cranked up somewhat.

Keith

[chaz]

I have had that problem. Usually after running a heavy application on my gaming machine, but like you said everything return to normal. It happens almost every time I quit Battlefield 1942.

My machine is an overclocked xp2400, but the fsb isnt pushed, its running 133*16.5

It hasnt seemed to cause any real probs so i let it go.

Just my 2 cents

[Beerknurd]

I need to learn how to OC... Anyone know the easiest way to do it??

[Jeff]

You guys should try running Prime95 in stress-test mode to see how stable your overclocked system is.

Beerknerd...what are your system specs?

[Beerknurd]

Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800 FSB)

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (2x512M)

120GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

3.5 in Floppy Drive

Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 48x CD-RW Drive


Is that what you needed??? Did I forget anything??

[Anonymous]

Keith75
What is your hardware CPU, motherboard/chipset, Ram, PSU rails.

What do you have FSB, multiplier and Vcore set too and what do you use for cooling?

[TA_Super_10]

Sorry it was me posting that last one, I logged in but when i clicked on forum it logged me back out again.

Oh also Beerknurd
You probably have a option to set AGP\PCI Frequency set them to 66/33

[Keith75]

Well, I have since turned it down but haven't been running long enough to know if it is going to happen again. Last time it happened I was running at 207MHz FSB and the multiplier is set to 11 which is factory. I had the Vcore set to 1.55. It seems like it is my memory causing the problem but I am not positive. I am running the DIMMS at 1.75v.

System:
Athlon 64 3200 Newcastle
MSI K8N Neo Platinum nForce 3 250
1 Gig. PC3200 DDR CL2
Radeon 9800 Pro

[vaughan]

Well I tried overclocking my XP3200 and failed. Its running on a Gigabyte GA-7n400-pro2v2 motherboard and has 1 GB of DDR333 RAM. It has a pair of Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA drives in mirror configuration. When I tried to modify the BIOS settings to 5% higher for fsb, voltage and AGP it froze. On re-boot - black screen. I reset the BIOS by shorting the CMOS jumpers as per the Gigabyte instructions. Since then it has worked fine at Stock speeds except for 2 things.
1. The Ricoh 9120 CD burner / DVD reader combo drive is detected in BIOS but won't read anything,
2. M$ Office XP won't work. I got a message to the effect that Office had detected significant hardware changes and I had to re-install. I can't as (1) stops me.

H E L P !

Vaughan

[BC]

Well I tried overclocking my XP3200 and failed. Its running on a Gigabyte GA-7n400-pro2v2 motherboard and has 1 GB of DDR333 RAM. It has a pair of Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA drives in mirror configuration. When I tried to modify the BIOS settings to 5% higher for fsb, voltage and AGP it froze. On re-boot - black screen. I reset the BIOS by shorting the CMOS jumpers as per the Gigabyte instructions. Since then it has worked fine at Stock speeds except for 2 things.
1. The Ricoh 9120 CD burner / DVD reader combo drive is detected in BIOS but won't read anything,
2. M$ Office XP won't work. I got a message to the effect that Office had detected significant hardware changes and I had to re-install. I can't as (1) stops me.

H E L P !

Vaughan

chkdsk /f your boot drive.... xp does not always recover on its own.
get XP to delete the CD rom.....
my comp - prop - hardware - dev mgr... and delete it.
back up to most recent sys restore checkpoint if within 24 hours.
it will reboot as normal.

do a full power off again (unplug PS or switch off the PS too)... take it cold during the sys restore reboot cycle.

after sys restore & reboot... cd will be back and should read.

the registry obviously got hosed in crash. happens to me all the time
(all my drives have the 8mb buffer on them)

the buffer (8mb) on the drives is what bit you during this.... xp does not always flush it completely... the registry is the last to be written out during reboot... remembr, it exists as 5 files.