sneakin up the FSB and suddenly a bad crash :'(

Geminiwave · Sep 27, 2004, 05:38 PM

Alright well sortof an update for people who I was telling about my OC.

Okay so I've been trying to avoid using extra voltage at all costs. I found that if I leave the ram at around stock timings (2-3-3-11) things seem to OC better(course). so I had 180X12.5(2.25ghz) which seemed to be fine. I snuck it up to ~2.3ghz and all was well. massive testing proved that all was good. I was about to see if I could OC alittle more when I decided "hey its time to clean out the recycle bin" I clock the bin and BAM bluescreen of death! RIGHT THERE.

Well so I guess that means that I cant OC alot more. I remember a time when this thing did 190mhz fsb with no extra vcore. Ah well maybe some setting is just wrong.

Anyway why is it that all the benchies, OC sensitive games, Various processor intensive encodings, and running HD divx files was fine...but clicking on the recycle bin bluescreened it?

Anyway im down to 180mhz again and things are good. Recycle bin does not fudge up.

anyway the error was osmething about trying to write to a read-only sector.

Judas · Sep 27, 2004, 05:57 PM

data going through the PCI bus and the IDE controllers could be getting corrupted and when it gets to it destination.. something that should have been a write could have corrupted into a read.....or something of that nature....

A good HD benchmark is a usefull to as well... (you ran PCmark 04? )

Geminiwave · Sep 27, 2004, 06:34 PM

yup. I ran pc mark, 3dmarks, aquamark3, Sandra, RARed my entire UT2004 folder(thats like what 5gb?) watched several HD divx files, played Halo, Farcry, Doom3, Psychotoxic(okay yeah that crashed but it always does. I cant use the hotfix lol) UT2003, UT2004...uhh thats it really. Oh yeah and I repetedly turned Post Processing off and on durring movie play in Divx(cause thats what always bluescreens first when OCing).

it was crazy. Seemed like everything was great. :-\

Judas · Sep 27, 2004, 06:38 PM

it could have been a fluke then....

i've had some similare problem running underclocked or stock.... just for some strange reason... something will just trip the wrong way.... nothing to worry about

Geminiwave · Sep 27, 2004, 06:56 PM

hmm.

maybe i'll go back to that speed then.

Oh well for another time. Iwouldnt want to smoke my PC in the beginning of the quarter. classes just started! :-p