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Please help!
Alright, here's the preface:
I recently decided to get my system on the overclocking bandwagon as I recently upped my cooling ante with the Scythe Ninja and a P180. Temperatures are so good that they're hard to believe, so I thought what better a time than now to get some OC'ing done? After following Eclipse's OC guide, I found the maxes of each piece of my hardware, and some of you know I was having trouble getting my AGP/PCI lock to stay locked. Finally I did get them to stay locked, and got everything set up. Now here's the issue: I haven't set up the final OC yet, and as of now (except for my vid card) everything is running at stock speeds.
Here's the problem:
This all started shortly after I found the maxes of my hardware. I've been noticing some stability issues, but nothing consistently unstable. By this I mean one day it was a BSOD, the next day Firefox would just take a crap and crash, the next day everything would slow down to a crawl necessitating a reboot, and so on. So first I thought, its the RAM. That would account for the random nature of the problems, and so I popped up an instance of Prime95. I ran the blend test, and sure enough it failed. I know that it had been stable prior to the OC'ing, and now it failed. OK, so now on to a more focused RAM test: Memtest86. Goes a full pass with no problems at all. WTF?!
So now, I'm faced with a problem: What in gods name is wrong? Failing hard disk? Motherboard fried when I found the hardware maxes and the AGP/PCI bus wouldn't initially lock? I hadn't pushed the vcore past 1.65 (1.5 is stock), and temperatures had always been far below worrisome (below 40C). In fact, it wasn't at 1.65 for longer than 15 minutes while I went through Prime95 to find my CPU max.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, hope you can help!
My system specs are in my sig, and I can give more information if need be.
Alright, here's the preface:
I recently decided to get my system on the overclocking bandwagon as I recently upped my cooling ante with the Scythe Ninja and a P180. Temperatures are so good that they're hard to believe, so I thought what better a time than now to get some OC'ing done? After following Eclipse's OC guide, I found the maxes of each piece of my hardware, and some of you know I was having trouble getting my AGP/PCI lock to stay locked. Finally I did get them to stay locked, and got everything set up. Now here's the issue: I haven't set up the final OC yet, and as of now (except for my vid card) everything is running at stock speeds.
Here's the problem:
This all started shortly after I found the maxes of my hardware. I've been noticing some stability issues, but nothing consistently unstable. By this I mean one day it was a BSOD, the next day Firefox would just take a crap and crash, the next day everything would slow down to a crawl necessitating a reboot, and so on. So first I thought, its the RAM. That would account for the random nature of the problems, and so I popped up an instance of Prime95. I ran the blend test, and sure enough it failed. I know that it had been stable prior to the OC'ing, and now it failed. OK, so now on to a more focused RAM test: Memtest86. Goes a full pass with no problems at all. WTF?!
So now, I'm faced with a problem: What in gods name is wrong? Failing hard disk? Motherboard fried when I found the hardware maxes and the AGP/PCI bus wouldn't initially lock? I hadn't pushed the vcore past 1.65 (1.5 is stock), and temperatures had always been far below worrisome (below 40C). In fact, it wasn't at 1.65 for longer than 15 minutes while I went through Prime95 to find my CPU max.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, hope you can help!
My system specs are in my sig, and I can give more information if need be.