i screwed up my comp trying to overclock!!!!

[Pyramix]

alright, i tried to fsb overclock my tbird that is running on a7v133. When it didn't work, i brought the comp back to the original setting. Now, upon loading windows, I get the BSOD. Explorer.exe and VirusScan fail immediately. What should I do?

I am thinking of loading windows in safe mode, and uninstalling VirusScan. What do I do to start windows 98 in safe mode? I tried pressing F8 initially which I thought would do it, but it is not working. Please help quick.

Pyramix

 

[Rio Rebel]

If you're lucky, only some data was corrupted on your hard drive. Boot it up, format the drive, and reinstall the OS (save important files if you can, by booting to a command prompt if you have to).

If you're not so lucky, you just discovered why CPU manufacturers rate their chips at a given speed.

Most likely you haven't destroyed anything. Reformat and hope for the best.

 

[Pyramix]

Oh my god, is that really the only option? There's lots of stuff on there that I don't want to lose. I just reformatted day before yesterday, and spent the last two days downloading everything I needed/wanted on my computer. I reformat at this point would be rather "expensive" for me. Any other possibility?

Pyramix

 

[Pyramix]

BTW, I have a 900 Mhz. Tbird and I tried to overclock it to a 1000. That isn't asking for too much, is it?

Pyramix

 

[dadx2mj]

You could always try reloading windows over the existing one might work might not but it would be worth a try

 

[Pyramix]

whew, pressed all F* keys during loading, and the comp loaded windows in safe mode with networking. removed virusscan, restarted, and it's working fine. that was a close one.

pyramix

 

[Ausm]

you are very lucky

Congrats

Ausm

 

[Pyramix]

i am tempted to overclock again. should i? i mean, it's a tbird 900, and should easily overclock to a 1000. maybe it was virus scan that was screwing me up earlier. now that i removed it, i might be able to overclock. what do you all think?

pyramix

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Pyramix,

Well you learned one thing, get everything personal..i.e. all personal settings and save them to disk. If you don't have a CD-burner get off the couch and start looking on 3bay for a good one. You be ok overclocking that chip and MOBO. How were you overclocking? FSB or Multiplier? One other thing. If you cooked the chip you would never get past POST...you'd just hear one long beep that says honey...I'm dead.

ST4R,

 

[spamboy]

Find some way to back up the important stuff first. Ideally you would have done the overclocking and got it all stable before you got anything important on there, but too late now.

 

[Pyramix]

Okay, I will find some way of backing my hard-drive. Meanwhile, I will refrain from overclocking. I am planning to do some FSB overclocking for now. Maybe multiplier overclocking in the future (a couple of years down the road).

Pyramix

 

[blackhawk]

I've always tried the install over top when I corrupt files but its never worked. Now I have a burner and backup but know my limits better on the overclock.

 

[woodsman]

I have a 900, green core, running at 9.5 x 108 @ 1.775 volts= 1026 mhz on an Abit kt7.I have super air cooling though, that is a must have. Go slow with small increments if you overclock.

woodsman

 

[velferdskiller]

I have been really unlycky with the &/%#%&() IBM GXP`S. Two of them have bailed out on me these last two weeks, so i lost everything. I had every mail from the last three years, + heaps of personal pictures. The whole deal. I got a Western Digital in exchange for one of the IBM`s, so ill see how it does. This morning i had to start from scratch with a new harddisk. Its hell. It doesnt feel the same going on the computer now.
Stay away from the IBM GXP`s. I got the same errors on both. When i tried to reboot, windows would load only up to a certain point, then stop. Couldnt format or anything. Wouldnt load as a slave to another working disk. Basically complete bummer.

Backupbackupbackup!!!!
It only takes a little while. You will never get back to where you were if you dont. I thought i was safe having things backed up on a second harddisk, but no.

 

[Wiggo100]

Here's a tip I've found very helpfull in case a format/reinstall is needed.
Have a 2 gig partition at the begining of the hard drive just for your OS and keep everything else on another partition so that when ya have format/reinstall the OS ya don't loose anything(except if the drive goes kaput).

 

[teatheif]

I just wanted to add one thing to this thread. Are you using McAfee 4.5 viruscan? There was a know problem with it at startup which would cause a BSOD. The cure was to download the new engine for it. I hope this helps.

 

[breweyez]

pyramix...if you are new to overclocking I recomend reading the articles in anandtech, sharky extreme....etc. Theres lots of free info out there to be had.
wiggo has a good idea for those without a backup device. a D drive
Its seems very odd that a unstable overclock could knock out the system. The worst Ive ever seen is BSOD(Ive overclocked a lot). Maybe teatheif has the answer to the prob.

 

[Lt1]

Better late than never... F8 at Windoz start is for W95 and control key is for W98.

LOL
Lt1