Overclocking failed

quik1991 · 6 Mar 2007 at 00:59

Okay, I really don't know what's wrong! When I first switch on my PC everything is fine.. I can do anything without any problems. It seems to only happen when I play games. After a good few hours of gaming my PC just dies and reboots, so I start up a game again and maybe 15 minutes later it does the same. Eventually I just get a "Overclocking failed" messege (it isn't even overclocked). I just downloaded a driver for my motherboard and when I restarted it said "CPU fan error"

this is what I have-

Asus K8SV SE
Athlon 64 3200+
1gb Ballistix (not too sure the exact name)
550w PSU
Nvidia FX 5900XT 128mb

What could be the problem?? I had this problem before with my last PC.. it's getting annoying! Thanks for any help you can give

touch · 6 Mar 2007 at 01:19

the shutting down while gaming sounds like overheating, unsure of the error messages (did u get the pc new or second hand?)

ns400r · 6 Mar 2007 at 01:22

Double check that the CPU fan is running and running at the correct speed. Check that it keeps running.

Exactly what did you download and install for your motherboard?

quik1991 · 6 Mar 2007 at 02:33

The PC is a few years old and it's not second hand.

The fan is running and as far as I know it's never stopped.. I'm not sure if it's running at the right speed. How do I check what speed it is, and what speed it should be?

And I just rechecked, it wasn't a driver for my motherboard >_< It was an AMD Athlon 64 driver for windows that "allows the system to automatically adjust the CPU speed, voltage and power combination that match the instantaneous user performance need."

Thanks for the quick replies

Chris Beard · 6 Mar 2007 at 07:01

Try an application called "speedfan"

quik1991 · 6 Mar 2007 at 07:57

Thanks, I used to have speedfan before but I forgot about that!

Hmm that's not looking too good. I'm not sure why it says Fan1: 0RPM.. I just checked and both are working fine

Dan2kx · 6 Mar 2007 at 08:21

i had a problem like that a few years ago turned out that the fan on the cooler on my graphics card had packed in so the card was overheating when i played games, i had to get a new cooler from the-bay.

4T5 · 6 Mar 2007 at 08:48

Sounds to me that you have adaptive overclocking on in the Bios.
Check your Bios settings and use Asus probe to check temps as speedfan sucks the big one.
Adjust Bios to run at default and then stress the system using probe to monitor temps.

vairo · 6 Mar 2007 at 15:11

i had a problem like that a few years ago turned out that the fan on the cooler on my graphics card had packed in so the card was overheating when i played games, i had to get a new cooler from the-bay.

and me