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Overclocking problem

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cherrypik

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While overclocking my computer it hangs before windows and I now can not get into windows. I reset the bios back to my original setup and it still hangs up. Everything boot up until it gets to Windows. My harddrive is SATA. Did my SATA drivers get corrupted?
 
did you try repairing windows with the xp disk to see if that helps the boot up.

Ive had to do that before and it worked perfect again afterwards. JUst a simple suggestion you may be able to try to rule out a few things
 
So you put the cpu and all other settings back to stock? Like voltage and everything?

Does it give any errors booting up like files missing in windows? It is definitely possible to corrupt a hard drive overclocking, ive seen it happen. But usually it would list files missing or corrupted during bootup. If it doesnt list any files, I guess its still possible its corrupted but, Id put the hd on another computer to test first before you reformated or something. If its just a black screen that doesnt list anything, it sounds like itd be something else other than a hard drive.

It sounds like it could be somethign else. If you were still overclocked and it hanged going into windows, id say the problem would definitely be needing more voltage. Hopefully you didnt kill the cpu.
 
yeah it could be many things, it would help if we knew exactly whats on the screen at the time like he was saying
 
Retsam said:
So you put the cpu and all other settings back to stock? Like voltage and everything?

Does it give any errors booting up like files missing in windows? It is definitely possible to corrupt a hard drive overclocking, ive seen it happen. But usually it would list files missing or corrupted during bootup. If it doesnt list any files, I guess its still possible its corrupted but, Id put the hd on another computer to test first before you reformated or something. If its just a black screen that doesnt list anything, it sounds like itd be something else other than a hard drive.

It sounds like it could be somethign else. If you were still overclocked and it hanged going into windows, id say the problem would definitely be needing more voltage. Hopefully you didnt kill the cpu.
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No errors at all. It boots fine until windows is supposed to load and all I get is a black screen. It even shows the SATA drivers loading. The Ram, GPU and CPU all register like usual. If the CPU took a crap would it register on the bootup at 2000mhz? I never had one crap out on me and the highest voltage I gave it was 1.45.
 
Hard to say from what you're telling us, but I do think that wither your SATA drive is corrupted or your BIOS is corrupted. You should try booting form the Windows XP CD nd see if the Recovery Console makes a difference. Heck if it doesnt, try unstalling Windows on another HDD and if all fails, its a hardware failure...
 
OK. I did a fixmbr and nothing. I also did a fixboot and now it's telling me that it's missing the following:
windows\system32\config\system

Can this be fixed or do I have to reinstall everything?
 
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