Booting in to Windows.

arc@css · 19 Mar 2010 at 17:32

Hi,

I use Win7 64 and after typing in my password the blue welcome screen appears as per normal. What should be a couple or few second wait just hangs until I do restart. I thought nothing of this at first but it has happened twice now.

Could it be a cpu overclock problem / dying cpu ? That was my first thought.

Thanks.

JonJ678 · 19 Mar 2010 at 18:15

Does it do this at stock speed as well?

I'd say 50:50 failing overclock / broken windows before looking at your sig. The Q6600 is reputably bombproof and 3.4GHz is a gentle overclock, so I imagine windows is knackered.

Faulty ram might be involved, either in the current error or in the corruption that lead to the error. How's memtest?

arc@css · 19 Mar 2010 at 18:22

Thanks for the reply JonJ678. I haven't yet tried it at stock so I'm not sure.

I don't think the ram is faulty, when I start up my anti-virus it does a memory test. I have never been able to get a rock solid overclock, but nearly all the time it will be fine at 3.4 / 3.5 at a push.

I will run memtest and report back tonight sometime.

JonJ678 · 19 Mar 2010 at 18:34

Ah, it's probably just the overclock being on the blink then. Might be worth backing up, going back to stock and reinstalling windows. I believe that windows corrupts over time when run on a slightly unstable machine, but that's from personal observation rather than anything I've read online.

X48 should do pretty well with a Q6600, might be time to waste a few evenings tweaking the bios. Good luck with memtest, if it fails you probably have the reason it never ran perfectly stable

MADEinSTOKE · 19 Mar 2010 at 19:11

its done the same thing on my sons machine a few times and his rig is totally stock

arc@css · 19 Mar 2010 at 21:14

Thanks for the help fellas. I ran memtest for well over two hours and no faults were detected so yeah, it must either be an ever so slightly unstable clock and / or windows could do with a reinstall.

Think I'll up the voltage a wee bit.