Stable Overclock now Unstable?

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 10:35

Ive had my E6300 at 3.4GHz (486fsb) And this was Orthos stable for 12hrs. I thoght ill settle for this and not try for higher. I thought id re-seat my northbridge cooler and CPU cooler now ive settled for the clock(Dont ask why Id had a few shandys lol :rolleyes:

) Reseated the Zalman northbridge cooler with AS5 and the CPU with AS5 aswell. Computer booted up fine but i didnt remember the temps before hand so i dont know if they had changed. But now the computer freezes while running orthos (Blend priority 8) from 1 sec to 4mins :confused:

Has anybody got any ideas as to what is causing my clock to become unstable.

Thanks, Ben

Jokester · 6 May 2007 at 10:36

Tried reseatting it?

Jokester

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 11:52

No, thanks for the idea i'll get round to doing that and ill let you know if it works

Thanks, Ben

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 20:15

Re-seated cooler, found AS5 was only covering half of the IHS, dont know if its made a difference, just running orthos now

Ill let you know

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 20:21

Nope, It froze bout 3mins into orthos with high pitched screeching noise coming through speakers

Anyone know what causes this to happen?

Cupra · 6 May 2007 at 20:26

whats your temps?

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 20:29

Max i saw in core temp was 51oC could it be the NB overheating?

w3bbo · 6 May 2007 at 21:42

Try slackening off your memory timings or give the memory a little more voltage.

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 21:47

Thanks W3bbo ill give it a go dont really want to give it more voltage already at 2.3v ill try slacker timings tho

PS: Good luck with the 4.1GHz clock

w3bbo · 6 May 2007 at 21:56

Cheers - not stable yet but I am still trying lol.

Back to your problem - does it only do it when using blend or is it when using small fft's aswell?

Cyber-Mav · 6 May 2007 at 22:45

did you run memtest to test your ram? if not thats where you start first

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 22:52

w3bbo said:
Cheers - not stable yet but I am still trying lol.

Back to your problem - does it only do it when using blend or is it when using small fft's aswell?

Small ffts ran fine for 15mins but blend stops any time from 1 min to 5mins+ Ive ran memtest on test 5 and it stops after 3 passes, the 4th run stops at about 60% but dosent error just freezes

EDIT: Didnt freeze of error at 15mins on small ffts i just stopped it to run blend

w3bbo · 6 May 2007 at 22:54

That aint good -(stating the obvious) deffo a memory related problem then.

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 22:56

Could it be the NB or the RAM itself? Just seems weird as ts started after i reseated my NB and CPU coolers :confused:

Would a CMOS reset and redo all settings help at all?

Jokester · 6 May 2007 at 22:56

Could even possibly be damage to the chipset core if you reseated that and are now having all these problems.

Jokester

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 22:59

Jokester said:
Could even possibly be damage to the chipset core if you reseated that and are now having all these problems.

Jokester

On no! Do you think i should try everything at stock?

Jokester · 6 May 2007 at 23:01

Try it at stock certainly as that'll give you a good starting point.

Jokester

w3bbo · 6 May 2007 at 23:02

Ah you didn't mention that! Tbh though I would think that if the chipset was creamed it wouldn't even boot up. Might be worth putting everything back to stock like you say and see how it goes. Or even better if you know someone with another pc try your memory in there.

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 23:02

Ok ill give a go and let you know

2 mins

BEn_2600+ · 6 May 2007 at 23:12

Yeah, works fine at stock passes Test5 4 times

Dont know what to try next