Loss of overclock.

bloodhunter · 2 Jun 2012 at 20:37

I overclocked my CPU to 3.8ghz from the standard 3.0ghz about 6 months ago.

A few weeks ago my system started crashing on a regular basis but for the past week it is now running fine. I thought it might have been a driver issue or something that had rectified itself.

However i have been into BIOS and it has reverted itself back to factory clock speeds which probably explains the system being stable again.

How can my overclock return itself back to factory clock speeds without me doing anything??

Thanks.

RJC · 2 Jun 2012 at 20:46

Sometimes the system can detect issues and revert back to stock, various systems of mine have done this in the past, re-do the overclock and all is well.

Surveyor · 2 Jun 2012 at 20:46

If your overclock settings were detected as unstable during the POST process then the BIOS may have reset itself to stock settings.

trickynickyuk · 3 Jun 2012 at 16:01

as above it is a safety feature of a lot of bioses some have a overclock fail warning at post and some just auto do it without you knowing

bloodhunter · 5 Jun 2012 at 09:56

Thanks everyone. I am just a bit puzzled as to how the overclock worked without any issues for the last six months.