Overclocking CPU PLZ HELP

[Brawler]

Hi All/
I need some help asap!!!
You see the one thing i have never really cared about was overclocking, until tonight FFS. I have a athlon X2 3800+ (stock 2000Mhz) on a gigabyte K8N-SLI mobo. I installed gigabyte easytune 5 and began fiddling with the clock speeds. I have read and been told that i can get a X2 3800 to 2200MHz real easy with stock cooling, so I did. Well after about 5 secs the thing hung!, and everytime I boot the PC it hangs before I can even open easytune to down the clockspeed. Safe Mode still works and the CPU temperature is @ 30'.

please help

 

[|tera|]

Click start run and type in msconfig in safe mode, click startup and look for the easytune 5 startup entry, remove the check box and see if it boots into windows, otherwise I'm not sure.

 

[Angellus]

From my experience the usual problem is the ram. Go into the bios and downclock your DDR ram from 200(DDR400) to 166(333). Then raise your FSB. This way your ram doesnt get pushed past its limits.

I used a util called A64MemFreq to determine what FSB will get what. Just google for it.

Hope it helps.

 

[Brawler]

The thing is easytune wont run in safe mode so i can downclock it there.

 

[Brawler]

Angellus when you overclock your 4400 doesnt it ever hang?

 

[Angellus]

Angellus when you overclock your 4400 doesnt it ever hang?

Sure it does

I find most of the time its the RAM so I just downclock it and I never use the windows utils to overclock. Usually you can get into the BIOS but not windows.

Lower the DDR freq and see if that works. if it doesnt then the MSconfig solution will be the easiest.

 

[Brawler]

okay now windoze wont boot, it says NTLDR is missing, and then i must reboot

 

[Brawler]

will formating my HDD work? lol

 

[Angellus]

will formating my HDD work? lol

Yep it should.

Well I have had the NTLDR error once, only way I could get things going again was a format.

You could have a look here tho

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318728

 

[Brawler]

fixed the ntldr error. It was looking for it from wrong HDD, must of changed something when i loaded optomized defaults

 

[Beta]

Ttry recovery console that comes with the XP CD,I think thats a corrupt MBR,you might be able to repair it without loosing it all,hope you have your data on a extended partition....

Edit:Oh good you fixed it...
As for the setting your CPU back to normal....on boot up tap delete or F8 and select the default settings tab in the BIOS and reboot,that should get you back to normal.

 

[Brawler]

deleted as Jeeva's rude post was deleted

 

[Angellus]

haha - funny man.
got any tips?

You try the Msconfig thing yet?

 

[Brawler]

okay fixed...\
phew

It turns out that the problem was the easytune fcuking program.
When I first overclocked it to 2200MHz, it hung, i reset it which some how corrupted the program. Every time i rebooted and open the program it kept on freezing. So i unistalled it while in safemode. Now windoze is working again and CPU is back to 2000MHz.

Thanx for help angellus,beta & teraside!
Oh and thank you jeeva for nothing, again...

 

[Angellus]

okay fixed...\
phew

It turns out that the problem was the easytune fcuking program.
When I first overclocked it to 2200MHz, it hung, i reset it which some how corrupted the program. Every time i rebooted and open the program it kept on freezing. So i unistalled it while in safemode. Now windoze is working again and CPU is back to 2000MHz.

Thanx for help angellus,beta & teraside!
Oh and thank you jeeva for nothing, again...

LOL @ Jeeva

Well if you want to overclock I would suggest to try and stay with the BIOS tools.

I usually downclock the DDR to 333 and then push up the FSB.

Go look for that tool I mention in my first post I think. Makes it easy to get the right clocks.

Got my 4400+ from 2.2Ghz to 2.5Ghz on stock cooling without increasing the voltage. Running it at stock again... no reason to overclock.

 

[Brawler]

Yeah i must say I also dont have a reason to overclock, besides raise my 3dmark06 score trying to get 5000+

And yeah when i do OC again i'll use bios. Im going to delete that easytune BS

 

[Prometheus]

okay fixed...\
phew

It turns out that the problem was the easytune fcuking program.
When I first overclocked it to 2200MHz, it hung, i reset it which some how corrupted the program. Every time i rebooted and open the program it kept on freezing. So i unistalled it while in safemode. Now windoze is working again and CPU is back to 2000MHz.

Thanx for help angellus,beta & teraside!
Oh and thank you jeeva for nothing, again...

Lesson 1 daniel son... don't use crappy programs to overclock.

Seriously, use the BIOS setup and use the max. memclock setting (if you have one) to stop your ram from running past its rated speed and also set your PCI bus to 33MHz and your PCI-X bus to 100MHz instead of in relation to your fsb speed. My fsb is currently running at 225MHz with cpu running at 2025MHz with ram set to DDR400 and everything is working perfectly without increasing the voltage. Will try another 5MHz every day till it crashes or starts to heat the room.

EDIT: cpu running at 39°C using 100% processing power constantly.

 

[CrazyBob]

Brawler, I recently overclocked my x2 3800+ too, and like you had never really ventured into that arena before...

But i was quite impressed to find I could get it to 2400MHz with just stock cooling and a well ventilated case. Totally stable too ...been over 2 weeks and counting at this speed.

If you're interested this is what I did:
• up'ed the CPU frequency to 240
• up'ed the CPU voltage to 4.75
• lowered my mem speed from 400 to 333MHz

 

[mic_y]

Also had some quite decent OC's on my X2 3800+.

Top that i got was 2510MHz,
FSB of 255
VCore +.1
VDimm +.2
Memory running at DDR-510 (255MHz)

Only problem that I had was that the case that i have got is really k@k in terms of ventilation, and under load the temp went "sky-high" I think I hit something like 75 before i decided that it was enough...

 

[Prometheus]

Also had some quite decent OC's on my X2 3800+.

Top that i got was 2510MHz,
FSB of 255
VCore +.1
VDimm +.2
Memory running at DDR-510 (255MHz)

Holy cow. That's a 27.5% overclock. What memory are you using?