AI overclocking causing crashes

[MurdarMachene]

My specs:

Asus K8N-E deluxe (with the AI overclocking, Nforce3 250GB)
A64 3400+ ClawHammer (Socket 754)
1024 Mbytes OCZ Platinum Rev. 2 DDR-SDRAM
ATI Powercolor x800 pro

When I go to my BIOS settings for Jumper Free overclocking and pick "overclock 10%", my computer becomes insanely unstable. It either gives me a Blue Screen of Death with the text "fatal error" in windows, or it crashes as soon as I attempt to run a game. Do I have corrupt parts? Is this just normal instability from overclocking? I literally can't use this feature without it crashing.

 

[SGtheArtist]

Sounds like the AI overclocking software is messed up. Do they offer a updated version or patch online?

If not I would suggest not using it and incrementally (sp?) overclock it through the jumpers or BIOS until you reach your optimum overclock.

Also make sure that the Bus speeds are locked on things like the PCI bus & AGP bus some times other hardware doesnt like being overclocked and if they are not locked this could be causing the instability when you use the AI overclocker software.

Just my 3 cents. (Inflation )

 

[imported_Kensai]

Don't overclock so much.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

The AI overclock is not a software per se, but it IS in the bios. Overclocking 10% on the first try is a bit much, try the smallest amount anad then run something like prime95 for a few hrs and if its stable then up it some more and run prime again. Continue this until you see problems and then back down to the most stable setting

 

[exar333]

i woulod recommend just using the BIOS settings if you want to OC, its a little to get used to if you have never done it, but it's something you can use across platforms (to some degree) its much more stable and dosnt have the same chance software OC'ing has to sometimes corrupt the BIOS itself...

 

[thegimp03]

Don't use AI Overclocking on the Asus board. I believe I read somewhere that it raises CPU voltage to unsafe levels. You need to manually overclock it instead. I have an Asus A8V and I have my chip manually overclocked 600 mhz on default voltage.

 

[MurdarMachene]

Okay, I manually overclocked it with the manual settings and it still INSTANTLY crashes when I try to play CS:S. What the fuck? I can't overclock it one mhz without it raping itself.

 

[thegimp03]

Read this guide:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1497607&enterthread=y

You probably will have to set a memory divider, if you're running PC3200 ddr. The guide explains how to do that.

 

[MurdarMachene]

I don't understand, is the memory divider just the thing that I set my MHZ for my ram with?