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This is my overclocking problem.
So I thought I would try and overclock my i5 3570k today. I went into the bios and changed the multiplier to 39 (3.9 ghz). It booted into windows, so I ran prime 95 for 30 mins and all was fine so I bumped the multiplier up to 41.
It froze about 30 seconds into a stress test so I upped the voltage to 1.12 from a stock of 1.195. It froze again but this time got blue screen of death.
Upon restart, the bios thing came up too fast for me to press delete, so I was forced to boot into windows again.
But this time it made me choose an operating system to boot into, so I just pressed windows 7. It froze and blue screened before I could type in my password.
So I went into the bios to change my settings back to stock, and the bios froze almost immediately, so I turned my PC off.
Turned it back on and went straight into the bios, which froze immediately again.
My motherboard is the Gigabyte GA Z77 D3H
So now I'm stuck and have no idea what to do. Please help I really dont feel like shelling out on a new CPU and Motherboard!
So I thought I would try and overclock my i5 3570k today. I went into the bios and changed the multiplier to 39 (3.9 ghz). It booted into windows, so I ran prime 95 for 30 mins and all was fine so I bumped the multiplier up to 41.
It froze about 30 seconds into a stress test so I upped the voltage to 1.12 from a stock of 1.195. It froze again but this time got blue screen of death.
Upon restart, the bios thing came up too fast for me to press delete, so I was forced to boot into windows again.
But this time it made me choose an operating system to boot into, so I just pressed windows 7. It froze and blue screened before I could type in my password.
So I went into the bios to change my settings back to stock, and the bios froze almost immediately, so I turned my PC off.
Turned it back on and went straight into the bios, which froze immediately again.
My motherboard is the Gigabyte GA Z77 D3H
So now I'm stuck and have no idea what to do. Please help I really dont feel like shelling out on a new CPU and Motherboard!
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Is the problem definitely the bios settings? Is there a possibility I could have broken the CPU or Motherboard when I tried to overclock?
Thanks for the answers by the way I really appreciate it.
EDIT: Sorry Mods, I was going to post it in my general computer questions thread but I was in a rush as it is urgent
Thanks for the answers by the way I really appreciate it.
EDIT: Sorry Mods, I was going to post it in my general computer questions thread but I was in a rush as it is urgent
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Turn off the pc, pull out the power cord, pull out the battery, wait a minute or so, put the battery back in, power cord back in the pc, and reboot.
Or if it has a bios switch, you could flip that. But the battery trick will work for sure if it is a BIOS problem.
Or if it has a bios switch, you could flip that. But the battery trick will work for sure if it is a BIOS problem.
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Adding on to an existing thread is faster than creating a new thread. Bonus - it saves me the trouble of editing it for you.Gdog96EDIT: Sorry Mods, I was going to post it in my general computer questions thread but I was in a rush as it is urgent
Adding on to an existing thread is faster than creating a new thread. Bonus - it saves me the trouble of editing it for you.
Haha, my judgement was impaired I guess, thanks
Later I will try and find the bios switch/remove the CMOS battery.
I will update later.
EDIT: Looked in my mobo manual and found out that there are two pins that, when you short them, the cmos resets, so I did that, loaded optimized defaults, and now it seems to be fine. The overclock is gone, so I'm just stress testing it to make sure there is still stability.
Safe to say I wont be trying overclocking for a while longer, this scared me
.Thank you for your help though guys, again, I really appreciate it.
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Hi guys, just a quick question today.
I just realized that I am still using the motherboard rivers that came from the disk in the box, so obviously I want to upgrade them (especially because I'm trying to fix a freezing issue, but that's a story for another day).
So my question is: If I download the latest drivers, will they automatically 'kick out' the old drivers or do I have to activate the new ones in any way? And will there be and clashes between the new sets of drivers?
Thanks.
I just realized that I am still using the motherboard rivers that came from the disk in the box, so obviously I want to upgrade them (especially because I'm trying to fix a freezing issue, but that's a story for another day).
So my question is: If I download the latest drivers, will they automatically 'kick out' the old drivers or do I have to activate the new ones in any way? And will there be and clashes between the new sets of drivers?
Thanks.
Latest question 27th February
New question guys!
I need some helping overclocking my Gigabyte GTX 660 using MSI afterburner.
The stock core clock is 1032 mhz, and the memory is 3004, just for some context.
I started by increasing the core clock by 23. So when I used MSI kombustor to stress test it, I expected to see 1055mhz for the core clock, but instead I saw that is was 966mhz, and the power limiter had dropped to 97%.
Now, when I increase the memory clock, it goes as normal and increases how I tell it to.
Am I missing something here?
New question guys!
I need some helping overclocking my Gigabyte GTX 660 using MSI afterburner.
The stock core clock is 1032 mhz, and the memory is 3004, just for some context.
I started by increasing the core clock by 23. So when I used MSI kombustor to stress test it, I expected to see 1055mhz for the core clock, but instead I saw that is was 966mhz, and the power limiter had dropped to 97%.
Now, when I increase the memory clock, it goes as normal and increases how I tell it to.
Am I missing something here?
