Overclocking problem

[>Minus<]

hi

Erm basically.. my computer keeps having error's saying "overclocking failed" and stuff like that. But the problem is.. i havent knowingly overclocked my cpu.. if i have.. how do i turn it off? its totally mashing up my computer lol.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

 

[vegasgmc]

Post your system specs.

 

[Tedster]

many motherboards automatically overclock a small amount. Go into BIOS and turn it off. If your CPU is super-locked, you won't be able to use this feature, so just turn it off.

My MSI K7N2 delta 2 platinum board does this. It will not overclock with the current CPU. The previous CPU I was able to overclock.

Just remember, overclocking is risky and will void any warranty on your CPU.

 

[>Minus<]

My spec is:

Asus K8V SE Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 Winchester 3000+ (2ghz)
2 Sticks of 512mb RAM
80 and 30 GB Maxtor HDD
ATI Radeon 9600XT 256mb GFX card.

Btw.. on the bios where and how would i turn it off??

 

[Tedster]

If your motherboard supports dynamic overclocking, then there should be an option somewhere listed in the BIOS. Most MSI motherboards have this. I'm not sure for ASUS. RTFM.

 

[>Minus<]

Ye under bios i could change the CPU speed.. its max is 2000mhz i put it down to 1800mhz jus to see if there was any difference, but it still suddenly crashes while im playing counter-strike or listening to music on winamp. and then says "overclocking failed" on the error screen =/

 

[Tedster]

set it for the fail safe default and see what happens. If you have dynamic overclocking, turn it off.

 

[>Minus<]

Yeh i set it back to the default settings.. and still the problem is there. I disabled AMD Cool & Quiet technology thing.. it seems to crash faster when that is disabled. could it be that the cpu is overheating?

 

[Tedster]

I wouldn't disable any cool and quiet settings. Have you swapped out the memory for known good memory?

 

[>Minus<]

ye i sent it to microdirect, n they patched it all up. tested with kingston and elixer brand memory, both work the same. so i got the elixer one. so i dnt think its the memory. but i cud b wrong lol

 

[Tedster]

It's generally not a good idea to mix brands of memory. But if they work, that's great.

 

[>Minus<]

no no, i mean that it was tested with 2 sticks of kingston, and 2 sticks of elixer. both on separate occations. so now i have 2 sticks of 512mb elixer in my pc.