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I overclocked my Athlon 3500 Winchester 3 days ago, it was a minor overclock, I simply raised the HTT from 200mhz to 210mhz and gained a 100mhz boost.

I checked the temperature everyday and it was stabe at 35.5C idle. Today was no different, nice temperatures, I installed a codec for windows media player and it asked me to reboot, the pc rebooted and on the POST screen it said something like... "FAILED due to overclocking, please reset" (it didnt say this exactly but to the same effect)

I was worried so I set the HTT back to 200mhz and it booted fine again. While I was changing the HTT back to 200mhz, I checked the temperatures and it was at 37C.... thats not hot at all so why did I get this message?

thanks for any help!
 
I think there's a typo in your last paragraph, it said you changed your HTT from 200 to 200.

Oh and.. don't forget to check your old thread about building a pc, you've got some replies ;)
 
I bet it's an ASUS board
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I think there's a typo in your last paragraph, it said you changed your HTT from 200 to 200.
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Nope, no typo

Oh and.. don't forget to check your old thread about building a pc, you've got some replies
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I guess the email nortifications arent working right again! thanks ill check it out
 
I dont see why people would want to disable sigs, its only text signatures, no pictures.

Anyway Ive gotten a few replies but not any help, can someone explain this to me please???
 
Temperatures are not the only thing that can cause an overclock to go bad. When you overclocked it did you run prime for 24 hours? You can push the chip past it's limit and it will compute incorrectly, which might not cause it to crash, but there could be a built in check in the bios. That's my 2 cents. Good luck.

 
I didnt run Prime 95 because I have no need to.

Ive seen this very same processor that I own overclock pass 3Ghz, most get it stable at 2.6ghz. Even with stock cooling like mine, ive seen overclocks of 2.5ghz and above.

I only overclocked mine by 100mhz, i went from 2.2ghz to 2.3ghz. This shouldnt cause problems.

I ran the computer for 3 whole days and it was fine, I played games, downloaded, watching media files all sorts, in fact the pc was never turned off, I just rebooted a few times to ensure the ram wasnt clogged up and the system was fast.
 
so... what's the thing that you're worrying about - the "FAILED..." message or slightly higher temp? as for the "very same CPU" you mean it's an Athlon 3500+ or an Athlon 3500+ manufactured in the very same week from the very same batch...?
and.. did you try to OC it again?
 
just becuase someone else's did doesn't mean yours will..

also.. generally when overclocking you hvae to raise the voltage... that's just how it works... and it is exponential too...

it will be fine though.. it is probably a bios setting...
 
this happens on all neo platinum boards. you need to use the "load optimized settings" option in the bios.

that said, maybe your ram doesnt like ddr420 speed at the stock voltage. are you using valueram by any chance? i really doubt that this is a problem with the processor, im willing to bet its a ram issue.
 
When OCing you should always go through memtest86, to make sure that you RAM is capable of being pushed as far as you're pushing it, and then Primed for at least 16 hours or so....a full 36 is best. If you're not willing to do that then, well, you haven't gone through the procedures that are pretty well necessary to KNOW that your OC is working. It's possible to OC a fair bit, and not run into problems for a while. A program like memtest and Prime will make sure that whatever you've done to your system is genuinely stable.
 
DamienThorn said:
When OCing you should always go through memtest86, to make sure that you RAM is capable of being pushed as far as you're pushing it, and then Primed for at least 16 hours or so....a full 36 is best. If you're not willing to do that then, well, you haven't gone through the procedures that are pretty well necessary to KNOW that your OC is working. It's possible to OC a fair bit, and not run into problems for a while. A program like memtest and Prime will make sure that whatever you've done to your system is genuinely stable.
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lol.. I thought you'd rather suggest F@H #33 for stability testing :p
 
TheMostWantedPolishTwin said:
lol.. I thought you'd rather suggest F@H #33 for stability testing :p
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F@H is for the long-term stability testing...I mean, what better way to always know that your computer is stable. For short-term testing, where you need to know about both your memory and CPU Prime is the way to go......but you're right. Fold on your computer! We need YOU to help us beat the Aussies!
 
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