Overclocking and bad sectors

[Paradisos]

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.

So you think i should do a scan disk again ? Last time i did it i didn't have much time to see the results coz of the fast restart after the check. Is there a log file somewere ?

Or maybe do you know an other free program for bad sectors checking ?

 

[Luigi]

you need to build the computer properly before you start complaing of problems

 

[Paradisos]

yeah you are right about that, and i not complaining about anything, just asking for some advise

 

[Luigi]

well even so i would get the computer working

 

[Paradisos]

well even so i would get the computer working

exactely that i am trying todo, thats why i am asking about things is don't know

 

[deathwish]

There are screws missing actually. If i press the RAM hard it stayes on, but if i let it go it closes.

make sure that your rams in correctly the tabs should click into place when the ram is seated correctly

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[Paradisos]

make sure that your rams in correctly the tabs should click into place when the ram is seated correctly

The RAM is properly in, and the tabs click correctly. Besides that, my system seems unstable, and i am starting to think it's from the bad sectors....

 

[Luigi]

Noo, are you overclocked at all?

Firstly, build it properly, ie with all the skrews etc...

 

[Paradisos]

Firstly, build it properly, ie with all the skrews etc...

I will do that as soon as i buy some screws and then i will report again !

Thanks anyway !

 

[Paradisos]

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

Seagate tools just showed me "1 error" which was fixed from the program. I didn't get "bad sector" report so i don't know what exactely that means. Hope it was something else...

 

[Pseudonym]

Wow, can't believe i missed this one.

It's been said a few times.

• The errors are most probably from a unstable overclock.
  
• Drop it all back to stock (default) settings.
  
• Make sure it's all screwed together. Especially the Graphics card. Those things are chunky and not many people can afford to let them snap for the price of a bag of screws.
  
• Run any manner of tests you want now it's stable and build
  
• Follow the steps listed in a thread related to your CPU to overclock it
  
• When you've reached the best overclock, run a stability testing program to check it will stay stable.
  

 

[Paradisos]

Ok, screwed everything, and system seems stable now, didn't had any restarts or something like that. I Really didn't thought that it was that important hehe !

Anyway, that to everyone.

I am not very sure though i don't have a bad sector, i need to run some more tests, but i really hope OC will not cause any Bad sectors...