Overclocking, the ultimate mess up.

[aok]

I have tested a few things with my PC, and here it is.

I OCed my Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 about 10MHz at a time, It worked great!

Blue screen came up days later o_o

Worked fine after, OCed a bit more and finally reached 3.33GHz

Blue screen came up days later o_o

Blue screen came up weeks later o_o

Blue screen came up seconds later o_o

Blue screen came up minutes later o_o

Blue screen came up seconds later o_o

Blue screen came up minutes later o_o

Reset overclocking to stock clocking, now testing this.

Wish me good luck, if this doesn't work, I'm reset BIOS.

 

[DavidT]

Have you been stress testing your system after overclocking?

 

[aok]

yup, I always check for 100% temp but doesnt do anything then, but when I play games, BLUE SCREEN then appears.

Also, i'll describe it. The screen fuzzes, then it goes off to BSOD, possibly Video card...

 

[monkey7]

Sounds a lot like your video card playing up. Do you get the chance to read what the BSOD says?

 

[aok]

Yes I do, but I never memorize it :/

I wish I could tell you but unfortunately I can't but also i do agree when you say it might be video card, it really does seem like it, I have ATi and we all know how ot they can go.

Also I havent had any problems yet since I put my clocks back

 

[FarFarAway]

Sounds like an unstable overclock. You need to stress test more than you are. Overclocking requires time and patience.

 

[GavX]

Check the RAM, if its a dodgy CPU clock will it not just crash...? Rather than BSOD? When I had this problem I just set a camera facing the screen whenever it acted up recording, and I could then pause at the BSOD message, wee trick for ya!

 

[Thanh55]

Like eryone was say, but you shoud post your rig detail and how did you overclock you rig? Increase any voltage?...what programe you test your rig?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Sounds like fsb or nb not enough volts to me.

 

[aok]

It's safe to say, this whole time I thought it was the overclocking.

BUT it was, believe it or not - Trackmania United.......

I would explain, but I can't I really don't seem to know why it done it all this but I read a forum about this exact same problem and they said to adjust the Audio setting's to your current device instead of 'default'.

How very strange..

 

[Ducky Spud]

Check the RAM, if its a dodgy CPU clock will it not just crash...? Rather than BSOD? When I had this problem I just set a camera facing the screen whenever it acted up recording, and I could then pause at the BSOD message, wee trick for ya!

Nice trick!!

I kept getting BSOD when i was stress testing and that was down to the timings of my RAM. That was during stress testing though which your computer copes with.

You say it doesnt crash when its not overclocked? Surely that would rule out the video card as if that was the problem it would crash regardless of the cpu speed.

Just try and get a photo of the BSOD and post it here, will be the most help probably