since trying to overclock my ram, i've been having some strange issues with my pc. Firstly, when i tried overclocking ram with the help of 8pack i had to clear my cmos a few times via the cmos clear button at the back of the board (Maximus V Gene) and after several clears, i first noticed an issue when i logged into windows which indicated that something *drive related* has no drivers or was corrupted (think it was something to do with the system management).
I then looked into device manager and saw that i had a "?" next to one of the items (in the bus area of the config however cannot remember for the life of me what it was) which basically related to the drivers for the motherboard/chipset was missing or corrupt. I then went ahead and reinstalled the drivers for my motherboard and rebooted.
All was fine until my desktop suddenly turned off aero theme and said something about the windows assessment utility had stopped working. So i looked in the windows experience index and found that it needed updating. I ran a re-assessment by which it crashed when it got to Direct3D 10 texture load something and said it wasn't able to complete. I googled this i found it may have something to do with corrupted drivers or issue with one of the components.
I did some tests, firstly by removing all my overclocks and re-ran the test however i still could not complete the assessment to get my updated windows index figure.
I then thought i would check on cpu-z and find out what my clocks say and for some unknown reason, cpu clock still read 4700mhz which is my previous overclock but voltages read 1.08v which is my default core volts. Baffled by this i went into bios to double check the figures but bios read everything is at default speeds and voltages. Restarted and looked in cpu-z again but still it read 4700mhz at default voltages.
So now im thinking cpu-z is not reading my clocks right... had no idea what to do and i still could not run my windows assessment to get my experience index figure.
I decided i would try and clear the cmos properly by taking the battery out instead of pressing the clear cmos button. Put everything back together and went into bios and loaded optimised defaults, restarted and booted in by which now it showed the correct clocks at the correct volts... also now i could run windows experience index BUT for some reason my SSD drive which originally read a score of 7.9 now only reads 7.5
Tried to use SSD life to read the life of the drive but the program comes up blank as in the program loads up but there is nothing to see, just blanked out buttons and a empty window.
Can someone advise me from here cos im completely out of ideas! wish i never tried overclocking my ram if i knew it was gonna give me these problems!
Help is so much appreciated!
I then looked into device manager and saw that i had a "?" next to one of the items (in the bus area of the config however cannot remember for the life of me what it was) which basically related to the drivers for the motherboard/chipset was missing or corrupt. I then went ahead and reinstalled the drivers for my motherboard and rebooted.
All was fine until my desktop suddenly turned off aero theme and said something about the windows assessment utility had stopped working. So i looked in the windows experience index and found that it needed updating. I ran a re-assessment by which it crashed when it got to Direct3D 10 texture load something and said it wasn't able to complete. I googled this i found it may have something to do with corrupted drivers or issue with one of the components.
I did some tests, firstly by removing all my overclocks and re-ran the test however i still could not complete the assessment to get my updated windows index figure.
I then thought i would check on cpu-z and find out what my clocks say and for some unknown reason, cpu clock still read 4700mhz which is my previous overclock but voltages read 1.08v which is my default core volts. Baffled by this i went into bios to double check the figures but bios read everything is at default speeds and voltages. Restarted and looked in cpu-z again but still it read 4700mhz at default voltages.
So now im thinking cpu-z is not reading my clocks right... had no idea what to do and i still could not run my windows assessment to get my experience index figure.
I decided i would try and clear the cmos properly by taking the battery out instead of pressing the clear cmos button. Put everything back together and went into bios and loaded optimised defaults, restarted and booted in by which now it showed the correct clocks at the correct volts... also now i could run windows experience index BUT for some reason my SSD drive which originally read a score of 7.9 now only reads 7.5
Tried to use SSD life to read the life of the drive but the program comes up blank as in the program loads up but there is nothing to see, just blanked out buttons and a empty window.
Can someone advise me from here cos im completely out of ideas! wish i never tried overclocking my ram if i knew it was gonna give me these problems!
Help is so much appreciated!
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