Can overclocking break an OS?

[merrimackjay]

Hello,

I recently tried overclocking my Barton 2500+ on my Asus A7N8x-E Deluxe motherboard (I have a two 512MB sticks of CorsairXMS PC3200 memory). Leaving all other settings at default, I could get my FSB up to about 185 or so before it would be buggy inside Windows XP (SP1a). Everything over 195 or so it wouldn't even boot.

Well last night I tried being a little crazy. Putting the FSB at 200, I set my settings on "Aggressive" and tried upping my voltage to 1.725 (default is 1.650). Well it booted into WinXP but shortly after the welcome screen came up, I got a blue screen of death with a bunch of errors on it that went away too fast for me to read. Now, whenever I try to boot (back at all the default settings) I get the following error:



The Logon User Interface DLL msgina.dll failed to load.

Contact your system administrator to replace the DLL, or restore the original DLL.


Any idea what I'm supposed to do now? Did my overclocking attempt fry something somewhere? Did I cause permanent damage?

Thanks for any help you can give!

 

[wkabel23]

I'm not sure if the 2 things are related but if they are it's because your OC isn't stable.

Not 100% sure about that but it makes the most sense.

 

[apoppin]

Yep, you can corrupt files.

Set your O/C back to default; Try booting from the XP CD and chose the option for repairing it.

Then don't go so "crazy" . . . experiment with your O/C in INCREMENTS.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: apoppin
Yep, you can corrupt files.

Set your O/C back to default; Try booting from the XP CD and chose the option for repairing it.

Then don't go so "crazy" . . . experiment with your O/C in INCREMENTS.

what he said