I'm new to the OC scene so please bare with me...
THE BACKGROUND:
I had a go at a tiny OC on my 5850. Nothing fancy, I just used CCC and notched it up a single notch at a time in core speed (about 5mhz per notch) and with each notch I test 15mins of Furmark (as I read on the internet) to check it was stable and didn't overheat...
It was all fine and got it all the way up to 775 (the max in ccc) without going too hot (it was at about 68C max on auto fan speed)
So then I decided to up the memory - same technique and when it got above 1055 the screen went mental and I had to reset.
No biggy, it set itself back to 1055 and was stable there. So I thought it was fine.
THE PROBLEM BEGINS:
Had a fun evening playing Dirt 2 and Black Ops with me online pals when BLRELGOGKG! The screen went mental again!!
I restarted and thought; "OK, I'll go into ccc and turn it down back to stock".
But I can't open CCC! I can't fugure it out... I try CCC, and the ccc-wizard and the ccc-advanced options and they just won't open - as if they didn't exist!!
Now it keeps freezing up with a crazy screen when I try booting up and the odd time I get into windows (about 50%) I still can't open CCC...
PLEASE!!! Any ideas what I can do? I thought a mild OC would be safe, now I'm afraid I've fried my expensive GPU which I can't afford to replace and don't have another to try! :S (the one in my old machine isn't PCI - it's the other old socket type).
Any ideas much appreciated
Howie.
THE BACKGROUND:
I had a go at a tiny OC on my 5850. Nothing fancy, I just used CCC and notched it up a single notch at a time in core speed (about 5mhz per notch) and with each notch I test 15mins of Furmark (as I read on the internet) to check it was stable and didn't overheat...
It was all fine and got it all the way up to 775 (the max in ccc) without going too hot (it was at about 68C max on auto fan speed)
So then I decided to up the memory - same technique and when it got above 1055 the screen went mental and I had to reset.
No biggy, it set itself back to 1055 and was stable there. So I thought it was fine.
THE PROBLEM BEGINS:
Had a fun evening playing Dirt 2 and Black Ops with me online pals when BLRELGOGKG! The screen went mental again!!
I restarted and thought; "OK, I'll go into ccc and turn it down back to stock".
But I can't open CCC! I can't fugure it out... I try CCC, and the ccc-wizard and the ccc-advanced options and they just won't open - as if they didn't exist!!
Now it keeps freezing up with a crazy screen when I try booting up and the odd time I get into windows (about 50%) I still can't open CCC...
PLEASE!!! Any ideas what I can do? I thought a mild OC would be safe, now I'm afraid I've fried my expensive GPU which I can't afford to replace and don't have another to try! :S (the one in my old machine isn't PCI - it's the other old socket type).
Any ideas much appreciated
Howie.
