Overclocking and bad sectors
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equk
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A bad overclock could easily cause data corruption.
Random restarts is normally a sign that something hardware-wise isn't quite right. Also bad clocking can cause the BIOS to reset itself as a 'failsafe' depending on the mobo. Some mobo's give you a message saying overvoltage or something, telling you the BIOS has reset itself.
Random restarts is normally a sign that something hardware-wise isn't quite right. Also bad clocking can cause the BIOS to reset itself as a 'failsafe' depending on the mobo. Some mobo's give you a message saying overvoltage or something, telling you the BIOS has reset itself.
Rastalovich
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Memory is the biggest culprit here. It can appear your drive is knackered, optical, anything, if it`s pushed too far.
memtest will tell u if it`s ok at whatever level u`ve tried to clock it.
memtest will tell u if it`s ok at whatever level u`ve tried to clock it.
Well i really had some problems with the maximus formula, but it is in general a great board.
At the beginning i installed everything, and when i power on, it opened for 1-2 seconds and then shut down. I pressed everything so to assure that everything is in place and it started sometime
The biggest problem is the following :
After overclocking the quad 6600 to 3.0 - 3.2 for the first boot it seems to run stable, no crases at all, and everything seems fine. After shutting it down and make letting it for a night off, if i try to power it on, i have the same problem. Power of, graphics fan turn on and then shuts down. The only thing i could do it reset the bios, and the turned on. Well no i know what it might be the not screwing the GPU (8800 GTS G92, really big and heavy), so maybe this is solved, but again if i let the pc on, there is no problem at all !!! (So what now )
Memory seems fine as i exchanged it.
But yesterday i had a huge crach. After the windows loading on screen i always got a fast blue crash screen and it restarted. I also put a windows cd and it told me it can not load Windows Xp -error 7 Ntkrnlmp.exe. So i couldn't do anything !!!!
Luckily i had a second hard drive with windows and i booted from there and made a scan disc which showed me the bad sectors on the first hard drive !
I don't really know if the hard drive got bad sectors from OC, or by moving the tower, or from the repeaded shut downs...
At the beginning i installed everything, and when i power on, it opened for 1-2 seconds and then shut down. I pressed everything so to assure that everything is in place and it started sometime
The biggest problem is the following :
After overclocking the quad 6600 to 3.0 - 3.2 for the first boot it seems to run stable, no crases at all, and everything seems fine. After shutting it down and make letting it for a night off, if i try to power it on, i have the same problem. Power of, graphics fan turn on and then shuts down. The only thing i could do it reset the bios, and the turned on. Well no i know what it might be the not screwing the GPU (8800 GTS G92, really big and heavy), so maybe this is solved, but again if i let the pc on, there is no problem at all !!! (So what now )
Memory seems fine as i exchanged it.
But yesterday i had a huge crach. After the windows loading on screen i always got a fast blue crash screen and it restarted. I also put a windows cd and it told me it can not load Windows Xp -error 7 Ntkrnlmp.exe. So i couldn't do anything !!!!
Luckily i had a second hard drive with windows and i booted from there and made a scan disc which showed me the bad sectors on the first hard drive !
I don't really know if the hard drive got bad sectors from OC, or by moving the tower, or from the repeaded shut downs...
Rastalovich
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Go back to stock clocks tbh, and see if all runs well.
equk
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If it's stable at stock speeds, format the drive or do low-level format. Then run a scandisk and there probably won't actually be any physical bad sectors.
It's probably memory as Rasto said. Can cause the computer to do weird things. Also you could try the drive in another machine.
The best thing to do when overclocking is give it a good stability test by benchmarking or running stuff like prime etc, periodically checking your temps are ok as you go. Data corruption is common in systems with RAM problems, but can also stem from a unstable overclock.
To overcome such problems, change your VCore/VMem/MCH to get a more stable clock (taking in account that more voltage will lead to a higher temp). If that doesn't work, you just have to accept that your chip/mobo will only run at a certain speed. I would also check the memory timings, just to be sure they are within the manufacturers specifications.
I have seen harddrives cause a system to crash and bluescreen tho, but your problem sounds like a memory/overclock issue.
It's probably memory as Rasto said. Can cause the computer to do weird things. Also you could try the drive in another machine.
The best thing to do when overclocking is give it a good stability test by benchmarking or running stuff like prime etc, periodically checking your temps are ok as you go. Data corruption is common in systems with RAM problems, but can also stem from a unstable overclock.
To overcome such problems, change your VCore/VMem/MCH to get a more stable clock (taking in account that more voltage will lead to a higher temp). If that doesn't work, you just have to accept that your chip/mobo will only run at a certain speed. I would also check the memory timings, just to be sure they are within the manufacturers specifications.
I have seen harddrives cause a system to crash and bluescreen tho, but your problem sounds like a memory/overclock issue.
Def the overclock as people have said.. Just another example here of things acting strangely with a high overclock. The other day when I pushed mine up to 3.8ghz, it booted into windows but it asked me to activate and validate windows and then just decided it was a pirated version.. It went back to normal as soon as I restarted with a more reasonable overclock when I'd finished benching.
ok for i downloaded a tool from seagate and it didn't report "bad sectors", just some kind of error that was fixed.
I still have the problem that the pc turnes off when the case is vertical to the ground but when it is laying on the ground it workes, but then again i didn't screw all the mobo screws coz i didn't had enough haha
So stupid of me
I still have the problem that the pc turnes off when the case is vertical to the ground but when it is laying on the ground it workes, but then again i didn't screw all the mobo screws coz i didn't had enough haha
So stupid of me
equk
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name='Paradisos' said:
Cool
altho if the sectors are already marked as bad the seagate tools probably wouldn't detect them again. Also I had a harddrive recently that was causing problems and segate tools detected no errors, yet as soon as the drive was removed the system became stable.
can't believe this thread tbh
