Overclocking & Vista

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KoolDrew

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I have the system in my sig and am trying to overclock it. However, if I change the voltage or HT link multi or something like that Vista refuses to boot. It will get to the log in screen and ask me for a password, but ussually goes to a black screen after that. It's weird because I haven't even begun overclocking yet. I was just setting the HT link multi lower to try to find the max for my CPU. I've tried every setting and it still does it. It seems if either of those two settings are not stock it won't boot. There was one time I could get it to boot with a 4x multi and everything else at stock. However, after I found the max at the stock voltage I wanted to up the voltage, but then it wouldn't boot.

Anybody have any ideas how to fix this? I have been running Vista on this computer for a while now without any problems. It's just now that I'm trying to overclock and Vista doesn't want to accept any changed settings.
 
After messing around with it a bit more it seems to me that the RAM divider is the one causing all the problems. I tried booting at 100MHz and 133MHz, but it wouldn't boot until I set it back to 200MHz. That's with the HT Link multi set to 3x and the voltage bumped up .05v.

So, anybody have any suggestions?
 
It's not Vista's problem, it's in the method....read a sticky here, overclocking is not that hard, but it can be an art to find the right combination of timings for your ram, divider settings, etc.
 
TheRapture said:
It's not Vista's problem, it's in the method....read a sticky here, overclocking is not that hard, but it can be an art to find the right combination of timings for your ram, divider settings, etc.
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All I'm doing is bumping the memory divider down to 100MHz to see how far my CPU could go. If taking memory out of the equation is not how you do it, then I guess I don't know how to overclock. :rolleyes:

EDIT - I just looked at Eclipse's OC guide and he says to start with HTT/FSB overclocking and do this by setting the HT link multi = 3x, CPU multi = 5x, and the RAM divider = "100mhz 1:2." Well, I can't change the multiplier on my CPU so I can't find the max HTT/FSB. So I go directly to trying to find the max to my CPU using the same settings just stated, but with the CPU multi at stock. This is EXACTLY what it says in the overclocking guide and EXACTLY what I'm doing. Vista just refuses to boot if memory divider is lower then stock.
 
KoolDrew said:
All I'm doing is bumping the memory divider down to 100MHz to see how far my CPU could go. If taking memory out of the equation is not how you do it, then I guess I don't know how to overclock. :rolleyes:
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No offense intended, your original post sounded like you do not have much experience overclocking. But it is not Vista's fault, that is a given.
 
I do admit it, I don't have that much experience overclocking. However, I have successfully overclocked before and I am following the instructions given by EclipseOC EXACTLY. I actually overclocked this computer successfully in the past, but I made the newbie mistake of not stability testing throughly and it ran fine most of the time, but once in a while it rebooted in games. After that happened a few times I put everything at stock and haven't got around to overclocking again until now. Now I have Vista though and I can't even change the divider. Which made me suspect Vista being the problem.

Vista may very well not be the problem, however it's not the method considering I'm following EcplipseOC's instructions exactly as he had layed out. Also, he even notes some board have weird quirks so try different settings if abnormal stuff happens. Well, I did try 133MHz as a divider also, but nothing works. I just immediately suspected Vista considering I didn't have these problems with XP.
 
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