Recent content by Dave Allen

That's what I needed to hear. My 750GB SATA HD went down a few days ago with unrecoverable errors. I could only get back into it with my other (ide) drive - which did an auto chkdsk /f to find bad blocks, etc. I had to reformat the drive eventually.

I have an Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 mb with a 2.4 cpu I set the CPU in the bios from auto to manual. Then it allowed me to change the speed from default of 266. I changed it 300. And now my cpu speed went from 2.34 to 2.71 Its running very good (without crashing) except for one problem...

I know virtually nothing about overclocking, but I have the same motherboard as you. I set the CPU in the bios from auto to manual. Then it allowed me to change the speed from default of 266. I changed it 300. And now my cpu speed went from 2.34 to 2.71 Its running very good (without...