Overclocking Causing Windows Files To Corrupt?

[Overslop]

Hey guys, I have an issue where occasionally a Windows file will become corrupt - making the OS unusable until I repair/replace it.

It only happens very sporadically - only a few times and always months apart.

I'm trying to diagnose what is causing it and have narrowed it down to either being - 8GB RAM putting too much strain on the northbridge, my overclocking causing the instability, or my hard drive is faulty.

If the overclocking is the cause, is there any way I can prove it? Seeing as it only seems to happen months apart? I have stress tested my settings a number of times, and it passes those without problems.

 

[JTrickle]

Run memtest / prime95. You say you have done stability tests. If its an OS file thats 'corrupt', and never any other of your files/programs, then the presumption has to be that it was not 'corrupt' and that there is another explanation for it not working. Such as something you or another program was up to on the system.

 

[Overslop]

Run memtest / prime95. You say you have done stability tests. If its an OS file thats 'corrupt', and never any other of your files/programs, then the presumption has to be that it was not 'corrupt' and that there is another explanation for it not working. Such as something you or another program was up to on the system.

I've run both memtest and prime95.

I can't imagine what programme could cause this periodically. Only thing like that which could point to have possibly caused my error was a Windows Update. But then you would expect many people to have experienced the same thing.