strange one here please ....
have had PC at 3.5 gig (Q6600) at high vcore - but stable - for last week or so (normally have my PC at 3.3 - but did some cable management dropped the temps a bit and managed to push up to 3.5)
I also found that I could get my memory down to 780 CAS4 at only 1.9V
I thought it was stable, memtest in dos was fine for 30-40 mins (Yes I know I should have tested for longer) - and was small prime stable for > 3 hours.
I haven't had any crashes - or errors in usage over last week (gaming, internet browsing etc)
yet I booted the other day to find one of my 3 drives couldn't be accessed at all (a long chkdsk fixed it to some extent) and one of my other 3 drives had some files at 0kb ...
the odd thing is the files that have become 0kb (some were as big as 20gb originally) - I haven't accessed recently
I thought it could be a HDD failing, but 2 at same time seems odd.
I can only think of 2 things ?
(1) overclocked too high and its ended up with duff data being written to wrong place onHDD thus corrupting some files ?
(2) I undervolted the memory, I thought 1.9V seemed low (as I had had it on 2.1V) - but everything seemed ok. I do have 4 sticks of RAM though so perhaps only in some circumstances the 2nd bank was being used which weren't stable ?
just don't want to loose any more data
any ideas please ?
not had this problem before with overclocking. What would corrupt files that haven't been accessed ?
I';ve thought the other possibility was PC was accidently turned off at wall while it was in S3 sleep the other day ... could thave have caused problems ?
cheers, Mark.
have had PC at 3.5 gig (Q6600) at high vcore - but stable - for last week or so (normally have my PC at 3.3 - but did some cable management dropped the temps a bit and managed to push up to 3.5)
I also found that I could get my memory down to 780 CAS4 at only 1.9V
I thought it was stable, memtest in dos was fine for 30-40 mins (Yes I know I should have tested for longer) - and was small prime stable for > 3 hours.
I haven't had any crashes - or errors in usage over last week (gaming, internet browsing etc)
yet I booted the other day to find one of my 3 drives couldn't be accessed at all (a long chkdsk fixed it to some extent) and one of my other 3 drives had some files at 0kb ...
the odd thing is the files that have become 0kb (some were as big as 20gb originally) - I haven't accessed recently
I thought it could be a HDD failing, but 2 at same time seems odd.
I can only think of 2 things ?
(1) overclocked too high and its ended up with duff data being written to wrong place onHDD thus corrupting some files ?
(2) I undervolted the memory, I thought 1.9V seemed low (as I had had it on 2.1V) - but everything seemed ok. I do have 4 sticks of RAM though so perhaps only in some circumstances the 2nd bank was being used which weren't stable ?
just don't want to loose any more data
any ideas please ?not had this problem before with overclocking. What would corrupt files that haven't been accessed ?
I';ve thought the other possibility was PC was accidently turned off at wall while it was in S3 sleep the other day ... could thave have caused problems ?
cheers, Mark.
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