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Overclocking for the first time... Bumped into problems... Plz help!!!!

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Percy

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So I tried Overclocking yesterday after watching a guide on YouTube.. It seemed pretty easy on a sandy bridge so I thought I'd give it a try. I went into bios changed the CPU voltage to 1.35, changed the CPU multiplier to 45, and enabled XMP profile, I then saved settings and rebooted. Windows booted up fine, turned on prime 95 and opened up real temp and ran prime 95 to make sure CPU temps stayed below 70C. One core managed to reach 70 but other than that everything was gone so Im assuming everything was stable and good. I reboot my pc and you know how when you install new ram or CPU, while rebooting for the first time it says new CPU installed etc? Well that popped up and I got curious so I went into bios and everything went back to default again. So I set up it up All over again, saved and rebooted and now I'm getting a blue screen. So I reboot go into bios and notice my sata isn't set to AHCI. So I set it and reboot. Widows loads again... I then reboot again and I get a blue screen.. Also noticing my motherboard light is flashing. I check the manual and it told me that one of my bios profiles failed. I looked up how to fix it online and managed to fix it. The light disappeared, went into bios tried to oc it again... Saved.. Rebooted light started flashing.. Windows booted up fine. I then restarted... And the comp restarted on its own a few times during post. I fix the light flashing set everything to default and now I'm clueless as to why this is happening to me. Do any of you have any ideas why??!


I'm sorry for such a long post, I'm just trying to explain what I did the best I could. If you have any questions please ask and I'll try to answer!!!!


Thanks In advance!!!!!!!
 
first i'd check to see if there are any bios updates for that board. if so look and see if any of them show a fix for bios failing to save. you can also try bumping up the voltage some more, say 1.4v just to check if thats the problem. if that doesn't work try using the same overclock with 1.4v but remove the XMP profile and see if that solves the problem.
 
When I hover over the CPU voltage thig if says do not go over 1.4v is that only if I'm on air cooled ? Or is it because it's not recommended?
 
So is it because I'm at 1.35 that this is happening?? I won't be on my computer until tonight to see if this is why it's happening...
 
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