Freeze/lock up problem since overclock.

slipd

slipd

slipd

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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 :mad:

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 :D

Cheers,

SW.
 
If you haven't tried already back off on the overclock and see it it helps. I'd recommend the S&M test for stability testing. It seems to pick up errors that various other CPU loading programs miss or take several hours to come up with.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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Bloody wireless keyboard - I think the batteries are on the way out :p

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 :o 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 :rolleyes:

SW.
 
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