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Computer hangs on bootup

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amheck

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PC has been running fine for the poast few months since I wiped the drive clean and started over. All of a sudden today I come back to my desk and the PC has apparently rebooted and it hung at the bootup screen where all of the PCI info is shown.

So I tried to restart a few times and same deal. I get past the bios screen but it hangs when all of the system info is shown.

What could cause something like this? The CPU is overclocked. SHould I clear the BIOS and see if that fixes it? Is that the best first step? Assuming that does not work, what would I try next?

Thanks!
Aaron
 
Well, I reset the BIOS and booted up ok. Have any of you seen anything like this before? I've had this overclock since I got the system last summer, and it's been running fine since then. GUess I'll try to re-add it slowly back to the BIOS and see what happens.

Aaron
 
The mistake most make is they find their highest stable clock speeds and timings, and then they don't back off enough and especially the system RAM tends to then "burn in" over time and they end up having to prograssively back down their clock speeds. I always say find yout top, torture tested stable speeds and RAM timings and then back off 20% of the overclock AND timings.
 
i know i faced something like this is when I installed the wrong platform drivers
Did a windows repair and everything was fine after that.
Of course overclocking can cause this too. Trial and error to trouble shoot
 
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