Buggered overclock?

Lonz · 7 Sep 2007 at 02:30

I think I may have killed something on my setup, I'm scared it could be the soundcard.

I was overclocking, upped the MCH to 1.29V and CPU to 1.51V when having a go at upping the FSB. I managed to get it to boot into windows on 450FSB, maybe I was being greedy. I then started playing around with the CPU voltages while I was priming with uGuru utility. I changed one voltage and the system hanged so I rebooted, went back to my original clockspeeds and now when Windows loads (Vista 64), I get a nasty hissing sound through speakers and headphones. Anyone have any ideas?

P.S. I've reset the BIOS and the problems still remains.

P.S.S. Reinstalled sound card drivers, still nothing. Device manager says everything is working fine. Perhaps I've pooped ther motherboard?
/worried.

Lonz · 7 Sep 2007 at 10:58

Can anyone help?

Thebug · 7 Sep 2007 at 11:11

try and re-seat the sound card

Lonz · 7 Sep 2007 at 11:35

Thanks for the reply, but ironically, I've just done a System Restore and the sound has all of a sudden returned. Problem solved I guess.

pegasus1 · 7 Sep 2007 at 13:13

Lesson 1.
Real Overclockers use the Bios, not software.

Lonz · 7 Sep 2007 at 15:09

pegasus1 said:
Lesson 1.
Real Overclockers use the Bios, not software.

Thanks for life tip mate. I was actually using both.

It's a hassle having to restart every you want to up the voltage by 0.1V only to find it does work.

As it happens this is my first overclock.

But like you said, that must not make me a real overclocker :rolleyes:

pegasus1 · 7 Sep 2007 at 17:34

Lonz said:
Thanks for life tip mate. I was actually using both.:

Can cause issues with stability

Lonz said:
It's a hassle having to restart every you want to up the voltage by 0.1V only to find it does work.:

Its worth the hassle to be honest

Lonz said:
As it happens this is my first overclock.:

Ive got a 1.8Ghz C2D at 3.4Ghz but what would i know.

Lonz said:
But like you said, that must not make me a real overclocker

It makes you an unsuccesfull overclocker

funksteruk2 · 7 Sep 2007 at 19:51

"Ive got a 1.8Ghz C2D at 3.4Ghz but what would i know."

what settings do you have to get it at 3.4?

cant seem to get mine past 2.72 tbh :confused:

pegasus1 · 8 Sep 2007 at 08:31

funksteruk2 said:
"Ive got a 1.8Ghz C2D at 3.4Ghz but what would i know."

what settings do you have to get it at 3.4?

cant seem to get mine past 2.72 tbh

1.6V on the CPU and 1.7 on the NB, both under water on an older bios, the latest one for my mobo wont allow me past 3ghz.
Dont try and OC the cpu and mem at the same time.

Lonz · 8 Sep 2007 at 12:27

pegasus1 said:
Can cause issues with stability

You misunderstand, I was using that utility then once found something stable would use the BIOS afterwards to save settings.

pegasus1 said:
Its worth the hassle to be honest

TBH, it's not.

pegasus1 said:
Ive got a 1.8Ghz C2D at 3.4Ghz but what would i know.

Good for you mate, it still makes it my first overclock.

pegasus1 said:
It makes you an unsuccesfull overclocker

So a 3.2Ghz overclock on a Quad isn't successful... :rolleyes:

pegasus1 · 8 Sep 2007 at 12:42

Its not hard to get an unstable 3.2 from a Quad, you have achieved it with ease.

Lonz · 8 Sep 2007 at 12:48

No mate, I got an unstable 3.6 overclock.

My 3.2Ghz is fine

Some people are limited by only using air cooling, not everyone has the opportunity to use water cooling.

But thanks for worrying.

pegasus1 · 8 Sep 2007 at 15:17

Lonz said:
My 3.2Ghz is fine
.

I will sleep easier knowing that.
I suspect the alterering of the CPU volts whilst running Prime was the thing.
Components love stable voltages hence why no Voltage settings should be left on Auto,

Lonz · 8 Sep 2007 at 17:19

You'll also be pleased to know that I wasn't running Prime when I changed the volts

pegasus1 · 9 Sep 2007 at 09:55

Lonz said:
You'll also be pleased to know that I wasn't running Prime when I changed the volts

I then started playing around with the CPU voltages while I was priming with uGuru utility