Odd problem with system stability

robcat101 · 14 Jun 2007 at 13:32

I currently run Vista 32 on a E6400 @ 3200 Asus P5B-E plus and find that is is completely stable at all times (Orthos etc as well as normal everyday computing).

In the recent hot weather the system was running quite hot so I decided to return everything back to stock settings and see if it ran cooler.

Bizarrely when I tried to do this the system was extremely unstable with various processes failing and even the side bar disappearing. Rebooting did not solve the problem. (All BIOS settings were at the original values that worked fine before overclocking) As soon as I upped the clock to 3200 again everything was fine!

Now I realise the moral of the story might be "Run it at 3200 all the time" but is there any logical explaination for this?

Do you need to run the performance profile every time you change a component (or speed) and then Vista calibrates itself to those settings?

Has anyone else experienced this?

w3bbo · 14 Jun 2007 at 22:39

I would assume that some of the settings are not being reset resulting in some settings still being in an overclocked state but voltages or other settings clashing with each other. To be sure if you want to run stock - reset the CMOS.

RaiderX · 14 Jun 2007 at 22:57

have you reset the bios to optimized defaults? something might not be set right, also check your voltages, if your memory is performance memory it will need 2.1-2.2v to be stable at stock speeds

robcat101 · 15 Jun 2007 at 06:19

Thanks.

Although I'm pretty sure I reset everything to how it was before I overclocked I guess I must have missed something. Or it is the way the BIOS works out "AUTO" for some of the settings - which I had a lot of things on before overclocking.

I will try a complete reset of CMOS.

It looks like it's going to be easier just to keep the system at 3200.