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I just reformatted/reinstalled 3 times in the past 3 days.

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BD2003

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My computer has had a serious tendency to crash while shutting down windows while I'm overclocking. It also decides that when it crashes at this in opportune time, it is going to take the whole HD with it. I have a nagging suspicion that the HD might be a lemon to begin with, but I'm going to give it one last chance.

First time I had to reformat, I realized that the nvidia IDE driver was more trouble than it's worth.

Second time, I vowed to back up every single thing before I did this again. A total drive image.

Of course, I figured I'd burn it to DVD a bit later tonight...big mistake.

Its a good thing I still have my old HD with everything on it, albeit the OS doesnt boot anymore, but I havent lost anything but time. Oh well, its a good thing I have plenty of free time, because I just threw away another 3 and a half hours of installing, copying and configuring.

All I ask, is that at least one single person out there learn a lesson from this, because I learned mine too late. I've been overclocking for like 10 years...I thought it couldnt happen to me. Its now happened enough for a year in a day.

Back your stuff up. Especially if youre going to overclock. Not on another partition. On a DVD. Because it WILL happen to you too. 🙁
 
Did you make sure you locked your AGP/PCI to 66/33 when overclocking? Also, is your RAM capable of running at the overclocked speeds? Run memtest and make sure your RAM is good.
 
The ram wasnt overclocked, and I'm sure it was fine...I didnt even change the FSB, its an unlocked athlon.

I know what I'm doing. 🙂

Although considering the fact that I didnt back up completely, perhaps I should take that back....
 
I wasn't trying to imply that you didn't know what you're doing. It's just, sometimes, even people with years experience like yourself can forget the simple things.
 
off the topic off OC'ing (but still pertinnent to the conversation....) I have built a few computers over the past 6 months and have serviced dozens... just last week I was fiddling on one rig and went to power it up and kept getting a VGA error.... "ok" says I and I check the cable... nope plugged in and everything.... but lets tighten those thumscrews a little..... try again... same problem. OPen the case and check to make sure the Vid card power line was plugged in.... yep... hmmmm.... so u call over my friend and explain the situation.... he takes one look at it and asks for the screwdriver. I hand it to him and he unscrews the card from the slot and then seats it in the AGP slot as opposed to next to it as I had it.... I double check my cards and other such things from that day on
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
My computer has had a serious tendency to crash while shutting down windows while I'm overclocking. It also decides that when it crashes at this in opportune time, it is going to take the whole HD with it. I have a nagging suspicion that the HD might be a lemon to begin with, but I'm going to give it one last chance.

First time I had to reformat, I realized that the nvidia IDE driver was more trouble than it's worth.

Second time, I vowed to back up every single thing before I did this again. A total drive image.

Of course, I figured I'd burn it to DVD a bit later tonight...big mistake.

Its a good thing I still have my old HD with everything on it, albeit the OS doesnt boot anymore, but I havent lost anything but time. Oh well, its a good thing I have plenty of free time, because I just threw away another 3 and a half hours of installing, copying and configuring.

All I ask, is that at least one single person out there learn a lesson from this, because I learned mine too late. I've been overclocking for like 10 years...I thought it couldnt happen to me. Its now happened enough for a year in a day.

Back your stuff up. Especially if youre going to overclock. Not on another partition. On a DVD. Because it WILL happen to you too. 🙁
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what's with the whining??
 
It sounds like you've encountered the well known flakiness of overclocking nF3 and using the additional SATA ports (or is it the onboard ones that crap out with overclocking using nF3).

If so this is a well documented problem... (use the opposite SATA ports and you should have no problems).

Overclocking should NEVER take out your HD in this day and age of throttling, PCI/AGP locking and the window you gain from testing in programs like Prime95 (ie a Prime95 unstable rig is often a shaky o/c, but it might run ok in windows at that speed an +100 MHz even (warning sign) ).

But backing up is always a smart thing to do. I have 2 HD's in my rig just for the purpose of redundant storage.
 
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