"System failed due to CPU overclocking" but now works?

MumboJumbo · 24 Nov 2007 at 13:06

Hey i noticed there was another one of these but desided to post my own so not to interfere as mine hasn't actually died.

My mum turned the pc on this morning and got that message saying taht the system had failed due to overclocking. But when she rebooted it worked. So what does that mean? Is my pc going to die? Or was it a one off? I need it to last till the new GTS comes out

Its an amd 3500, not sure what mobo as its 3 years old and was made by a company and i dont think i can even get into overclocking options.

theheyes · 24 Nov 2007 at 13:14

What program did the message spawn from? I've never known an error message to specifically blame overclocking. Its listed as an option in a list of possible issues sometimes in software errors but that seems a bit weird.

MumboJumbo · 24 Nov 2007 at 13:27

On start up i beleive it said overclocking failed or something. My mum isn't here now so i cant ask her exacly.

Pc running quiet slow.

Garyj881 · 24 Nov 2007 at 17:01

Most likely the system was overclocked and has had a bad boot (prob not enough vcore) and disabled the overclock by swithcing the fsb from manual back to auto thus enabling the boot with standard fsb.

Energize · 24 Nov 2007 at 17:03

My asrock mobo will come up with the same error if you put the fsb too high for the cpu to handle.

ledbythereaper · 24 Nov 2007 at 17:05

My Asus mobo will do it too, or when I reseat the CPU.

[PTG]shogun · 24 Nov 2007 at 17:37

his motherboard wont let him into OC options, so he wouldn't of been able to OC it if he tried.

Could it be a factory OC or something????

NigeyUK · 24 Nov 2007 at 17:42

my old asus board used to do that after almost every reboot on a stock clocked system bios bug i reckon

ins0mn1ac · 24 Nov 2007 at 18:21

My PC did this once (old 939 system) for no reason at all, totally stock speeds.. Guess it burped posting once never a hick-up from it again, I wouldn't worry.

romperstomper · 24 Nov 2007 at 18:23

8igdave said:
Hey i noticed there was another one of these but desided to post my own so not to interfere as mine hasn't actually died.

My mum turned the pc on this morning and got that message saying taht the system had failed due to overclocking. But when she rebooted it worked. So what does that mean? Is my pc going to die? Or was it a one off? I need it to last till the new GTS comes out

Its an amd 3500, not sure what mobo as its 3 years old and was made by a company and i dont think i can even get into overclocking options.

Gura sometimes does that even if it has not been overclocked ,would not worry about it mate !

mattyrigby00 · 24 Nov 2007 at 18:25

means the failed-overclock detection got triggered and the cpu settings reset to default