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Hi, i recently tried to overclock my amd 970 yesterday and it failed and crashed, so i restarted and a message came up saying that a failed the overclocking and i needed to run setup or something like that, it took me to the bios i just clicked discard changes and exit and everything is fine.

For some reason i find this hard to believe, i've heard horror stories about people failing their overclock and their pc's wont start up at all, this isn't the case for me however. This maybe a stupid n00b question but is this normal?
 
PGB said:
Hi, i recently tried to overclock my amd 970 yesterday and it failed and crashed, so i restarted and a message came up saying that a failed the overclocking and i needed to run setup or something like that, it took me to the bios i just clicked discard changes and exit and everything is fine.

For some reason i find this hard to believe, i've heard horror stories about people failing their overclock and their pc's wont start up at all, this isn't the case for me however. This maybe a stupid n00b question but is this normal?
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Normal, the system found a problem with your original OC so asked you to fix by running BIOS settings again.

All good :)
 
just means you pushed it abit too far for the voltage / motherboard / cpu limit, no damage will be done, just try it again, only abit less :P (also keep an eye on your temps)

edit: spelling mistake :P
 
ChrisGTL said:
Normal, the system found a problem with your original OC so asked you to fix by running BIOS settings again.

All good :)
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This,
the bios will usually reset it self to default settings.
also you are partially right, sometimes some pc's will not reboot, or reset itself.
all you have to do then, is to reset the cmos, which just means to remove the big watch battery on your motherboard for around 1 min and refit it.
this wipes all the previous settings from the bios, and you are good to go again :)

regarding your overclock, i am not familiar with AMD chips,
but just raise the vcore (volatge of processor) by a couple of levels.
Unlink the ram, so in the ram multi, set it manaully to its default speed.
then raise the fsb by 20 mhz step. boot into windows and then stress test using prime95 (google) and keep an eye on your temperatures using realtemp.
if it passes a 30 min test, go back into bios and raise fsb by another 20mhz. repeat test again.

do your homework first as well.:)
what is max vcore and temp for your cpu, google will tell you this ;)
 
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Yeah as said before , that is the PC preventing damage from an OC. These days chips are normally really hard to kill unless you put stupid volts through them so dont worry :)
 
Thanks for the feedback, I was researching before hand on overclocking my cpu and I thought i did everything right, I must have forgot something. I dont think i'll be going near amd overdrive anytime soon :)
 
dont bottle it now ;):D
there is no permanent damage that can be done
dont let a half hearted attemp, stop you doing this. once you understand it, its fairly easy. :)
the most important things with overclocking.
have a proper cpu cooler and dont use too much voltage

is it a AMD Phenom II X4 970?
if so the max volatge is 1.45v. and max temp is 62.C
bump the voltage to 1.4v
your cpu has a 17.5 multiplier is the stock setting! 17.5 x 200 = 3500 mhz! To get to 3.8 you will set the multiplier to 19.........19 x 200 = 3800 mhz
or even 20, 20 x 200 = 4000

some more reading/settings http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/amd_phenom_1075t_970_560_athlon_645_450_265/3.htm
 
j.col said:
dont bottle it now ;):D
there is no permanent damage that can be done
dont let a half hearted attemp, stop you doing this. once you understand it, its fairly easy. :)
the most important things with overclocking.
have a proper cpu cooler and dont use too much voltage

is it a AMD Phenom II X4 970?
if so the max volatge is 1.45v. and max temp is 62.C
bump the voltage to 1.4v
your cpu has a 17.5 multiplier is the stock setting! 17.5 x 200 = 3500 mhz! To get to 3.8 you will set the multiplier to 19.........19 x 200 = 3800 mhz
or even 20, 20 x 200 = 4000

some more reading/settings http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/amd_phenom_1075t_970_560_athlon_645_450_265/3.htm
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Sorry if this is a stupid question but where in amd overdrive is the slider that increases the voltage? theres "CPU vid" and "Nb vid" also do i increase the multiplyer on all cores? Again sorry if this is a n00b question i just wanna make sure.
 
Tech specs for your processor can be found here.

If you look in your BIOS, you should see a setting called VCORE. That's your CPU core voltage. It's likely you can only adjust it in 0.025v increments, but don't push it above 1.425.

It's just my personal opinion, but I wouldn't bother with overdrive. You're learn a lot more in the in the long-run if you take the time to learn OC using the BIOS instead.
 
TallmanMikeUK said:
Tech specs for your processor can be found here.

If you look in your BIOS, you should see a setting called VCORE. That's your CPU core voltage. It's likely you can only adjust it in 0.025v increments, but don't push it above 1.425.

It's just my personal opinion, but I wouldn't bother with overdrive. You're learn a lot more in the in the long-run if you take the time to learn OC using the BIOS instead.
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this^^
always use the bios, imo you can get better results if you do it yourself ;)

what cooler are you using?
and what motherboard and ram?

and have a look in the phenom thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18108943
 
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