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Corrupted Files and Overclocking?

Elfear

Elfear

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This is probably a dumb question but is it possible for corrupted Windows files to rear their ugly head only when overclocking? I keep getting these random bsods and I'm trying to eliminate possibilites of what it could be. The bsods I get are either ntfs.sys, win32k.sys, or nv4_disp.dll. Usually the error states that it is caused by a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGEDAREA.

Any ideas?
 
Of course it is. But they may be fine on disk, they may just get corrupted in memory or in the CPU's cache, depending on what's beeing stressed too hard.
 
So reloading windows on my HDs obviously isn't going to help if either my ram or memory controller is being overburdened. Do the errors I get sound like a memory issue? I've tested the ram under memtest and the system will Prime for hours and than suddenly just bsod.
 
Prime95 should run fine for days.
Back off on your overclocking untill Prime95 runs for 24 hours or so.

Bozo 😀
 
Well, usually I Prime for a long period of time to test an overclock and if I've pushed the CPU too hard Prime will just error out instead of getting random bsods. I'm just wondering if something else besides the CPU is the culprit if I'm getting bsods instead of the more normal Prime rounding errors.
 
I just corrupted the sh1t out of mine yesterday by overclocking, it corrupted the system file in my data hive and I spent hours fixing and repairing XP 🙁.
 
BSODs that corrupt system files are usually caused by your ram crapping out on you... RAM BSODs are usually random and not as consistent as say your cpu/chipset overheating. Like blazer said I would up the DDR voltage a point or two or give them some less aggresive timings. See if the helps any. Or to save you some hours of reinstalling and reconfiguring you can run memtest after you change around ram/fsb settings.

If you come up with nothing. Report back.

RTM
 
Well, I ran through Memtest 20 times with no errors and I had actually lowered my Vdimm to 2.70V. I also ran Prime95 for 14hrs with no errors. This was at 288x9 (1.52V) with ram running at 259MHz 3-3-3-10 timings. I'm pretty sure it's not the ram at this point. It's really weird to me that I can run Memtest and Prime95 with no problems but as soon as I jump into another application or try surfing the net than I get bsods.

The only thing I can think is that the sata or pcie locks aren't working correctly. Memtest doesn't access the harddrives and besides the initial opening of the file I don't believe Prime does either. I was running cpu-z, Clockgen, and Speed Fan in the background when I was Priming for 14hrs and I don't know how much those programs access the hardrive. I could be talking out my butt here so I'd appreciate your thoughts on this theory.
 
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