Freeze/lock up problem since overclock.

[slipd]

Hey guys,

Since overclocking my new E8400 a couple of days ago I’ve been getting the odd, random but very annoying system freeze an eventually, a full lock up

I ran my new chip in for just over 7 hours on Orthos and it was fine? My system starts up okay and is fine in Windows and in games – apart from the above problem…

Yesterday I was backing up my data onto my esata external drive, using WMP and had a couple of instances of Firefox running and literally the minute I turned my printer on the machine froze? WMP produced a critical error and shutdown and I was unable to load it again until I had turned off the system at the wall and left it five minutes! Upon booting back into Windows I had the usual ‘Serious Error’ report presented to me.

Eventually though I had to manually shut the machine down because it had completely stopped responding…

Today I was on the internet, had WMP running and had Word on the go. This time the WMP stopped mid-song and the whole system just froze until I manually shut it down again. I’ve left the machine on for hours at a time, idle, and it seems okay? I can be doing something, leave it, come back and play a game and its fine? It only seems to lock up after input for me

So where do I start? Anyone got anything that immediately springs to mind, or am I going to have to get technical

Cheers,

SW.

 

[slipd]

Hmm. Not heard of that one? I might have to give it a go later?

I've already tried OCCT, 3DMark06 and Orthos and they've all passed okay

I might also have another look in the bios and see if there are any voltages(vcore/ram/mch/fsb etc) that I can tinkle with...

Cheers,

SW.

 

[slipd]

I just had another lockup, this time though with a bsod

The machine just restarted then... I've upped the ram volts to 2.1v and the mch and fsb by .01v - hopefully that might sort this problem out?

My vcore is still at 1.3875v.

SW.

 

[slipd]

Bloody wireless keyboard - I think the batteries are on the way out

The increased v's didn't help... No sooner had I set them the system randomly rebooted! I'm back at 'stock everything' atm.

I'm looking at the memory now - thinking that it could be that at fault? I read somewhere that Ballistix's are 'live fast, die young' components I'm going to memtest test them tonight anyway. I don't think they've ever really been thrashed though?

I think I should have properly re-seated them anyone when they were out of the case for the new cpu's installation? They could have been knocked or whatever when I was shifting my Tuniq Tower

SW.