Atempt to overclock and windows

[ionicle_old]

i hav manged an overclock once, of 100MHz, but every and i mean EVERY other time i have tried it winreg.dll and 2 others became corupt, and i hav no explanation as too why...anyy ideas?

 

[Dav0s]

follow pv's n00b A64 overclocking guide down to a tee. i dont mean any harm by this...i just suspect you are doing something slightly wrong.

 

[NickS]

Ionicle your ATA controller isn't locked, or...your whole PCI Bus isn't locked.

Don't OC. You'll break or corrupt data.

 

[Dav0s]

nice point nick....SATA or PATA hard drive ionicle?

 

[FragTek]

#1 cause of botched overclocks is usually due to running SATA hd's on the unlocked ports... I was victim to this on the Winnie when I first got started. I couldnt figure out for the life of me what was wrong when it was happening to me.

 

[ionicle_old]

i use IDE and i tried o/cin from the bios, by doin it through software as hardware was blanked out, and the only way ican do it is on a window that comes up and ses enter a number between 200 and 233

 

[NickS]

Well Ionicle, your mobo is Junk tbh.

You know that.

The chances that your ATA ports being locked, let alone your PCI bus, is slim--to none...so, I'd once again; lay off the OC.

 

[ionicle_old]

ya, but i wanna o/c!!! lol 2GHz aint enough!, n whats a ATA port!? or a pci bus?! thats beyond my level of expertiese, mindya say computer to me, and i wil prolly stare at the screen dumfounded lol

 

[Eguy]

lollers ionicle.. just wait for your new rig

 

[NickS]

Sorry to say I knew what they were before building my first computer, when I was 10 or 11.

 

[ionicle_old]

lol, i was jokin!!!

 

[NickS]

lol, i was jokin!!!

ok?

 

[bloodthirst]

do you even have ram thats overclockable rofl?

 

[NickS]

I firmly believe it's the ATA/PCI Bus.

 

[Dav0s]

pci bus is unlikely to make windows get corrupted. it will just have no sound/video or whateva else is on the bus. i had probs with my old crapy asus mobo

 

[ionicle_old]

my ram is 1023mb of Vdata DDR 400 duel channel perfectly matched pair...

 

[Dav0s]

you have 1024mb of ram ionicle. and that stuff prob wont overclock very well

 

[FragTek]

He's supposed to have 1024 It's rare that you hit 1024 on the nose, most of the time ive been lucky and gotten 1-2mb's extra, don't believe i've ever come up short.

 

[ionicle_old]

i get between 1023, and 1022 dependin what i use to check it

 

[NickS]

Dave, all perhipherals (ATA, SATA, NETWORKING, AUDIO, ETC) run off the PCI bus.

This is why XP got corrupted....