Would OCing too far cause system reboots?

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hey guys, I was just wondering if me OCing my graphics card too far would cause system restarts. I think it may have been the drivers that I installed (w/o driver cleaner or anything) and since I uninstalled/reinstalled them, it hasnt done it.

At any rate my system would just completely randomly reboot, never in a 3d environment. Only when I'm browsing the web, or I just get on my system, not even getting the chance to do anything. this would happen, definitly once, posibly more then one time a day. I successfully ran 3dmark03 for about 9 hours with completely no artifacting, so I don't think its the OC, just wondering what you think it was.
 
short answer, yes it is possible.

If you have a radeon, i've noticed that the newer drivers may cause more heat than necessary and force the gpu recovery error, which may cause your machine to reboot.

also if you are using win XP, make sure that you don't have the automatically restart button checked in the start up and recovery tab.
 
alright I disabled the automatic re-boot.

but if it had been overheating or something (I'm using nVidia BTW, see sig) wouldnt it show up in running hours of 3dmark... like artifacting or something. The only artifacting I ever got was on the desktop only immediatly after reboots/startupsand exactly in the same spot every time. And as soon as I clicked on something it would go away.
 
Sorry, didn't notice the sig. I would next check your error log and see what happened right before the random restart.
 
Right click on my computer, select manage. Look under Event Viewer and performance logs and alerts.
 
Well, I don't see anything in there that even pertains to anything caused by graphics or memory dump or anything. Only errors are cdrom, and some other stuff that I know what caused them to appear there.
 
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