Data corruption on OC

[fzkl]

My old system was an Athlon XP 2000+ which I had overclocked from 1.67 GHz to 2.2 Stable and I didn't face any data corruption issues.

On the new rig as in my signature, I find that applications fail to run when I overclock the system. It's not that the application crashes in between its run which would be understandable, it doesn't even open up. Even after setting all frequencies and voltages to default values, the applications still didnt open.

However, these apps open and work fine after a clean install. So looks like the OC is killing my apps. Possible data corruption on the HDD which is a Raptor 150. The only OC I have tried so far is the max possible FSB. I reached 1980 MHz Prime95 failing after 4 hours.

Any ideas why this is happening and can be prevented?
Thanks,

 

[DrMrLordX]

Honestly that sounds like a board-related issue:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Si...ta+corruption&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

You might want to do some research on this. You are not the only one. Looks like you may need a BIOS update.

 

[fzkl]

I have the latest BIOS. Not sure if its BIOS related. Just to check, does overclocking corrupt data in general, without being specific to the 680i?

 

[Farmer]

fzkl:

I know on my (inferior and aging nForce 3) motherboard there are two additional SATA ports that are not controlled by the BIOS AGP/PCI-bus freq lock, and thus are vulnerable to data corruption if that frequency becomes too high (due to overclocking).

I have no idea if this is the same issue as yours.

 

[JustStarting]

Generally corrupting your OS is caused by memory errors from OC'ing. Maybe back off a tad on the OC, relax memory timings or use a divider if possible. You won't really take a performance hit.

Have you run memtest to see if your memory can handle what you are throwing at it?

The ONLY times I've corrupted an OS is tweaking with memory timings. If you just push the CPU too far you usually get a BSOD and a memory dump.

 

[fzkl]

Hmmm... I havent over voltaged the 680i to achieve that FSB. Could that be a possible reason? Also, I am running 4-4-4-12 2.1v memory at 5-5-5-18 @ 1.8x. So the memory is quite relaxed.

 

[cmdrdredd]

That's memory error. Reset cmos and try it...see if everything works ok. If it does, start fromk scratch...move a little at a time to find out where the problem occured.

Personally I'd jump to 400Mhz FSB, Linked memory (DDR2-800 4-4-4-12-1T), run 1.45v on your CPU (3.6Ghz), bump every voltage for your mobo up 1 spot, keep memory voltage at the stock voltage it's rated at.

That should work. If not, drop your multiplyer down from 9x to 8x and see if it works at 3.2Ghz.