If I corrupted WinXP by overclocking too high would it be obvious and would I know it?

[mitchafi]

Well, I set the HTT on my A64 3200+ to 220 and apparently my system didn't like it. Prime95 ran stable for 44 hours but I couldn't run 3DMark03 even once without my system hanging or getting an error that said I had a corrupt texture file. I set my HTT back to stock (200) but now I am noticing that some programs are crashing and giving me errors at random. When I ran UT2K4 it gave me some odd runtime error. This only has happened once so far. Also Mozilla has been crashing at random intervals and giving me the Microsoft Error Reporting box. MainConcept MPEG encoder also crashed once when I was setting up an MPEG to encode. None of this stuff had ever happened before I set the HTT to 220. So, what are the odds that my bad OC caused this and if it did, what do I need to do to rememdy the situation. Also as the topic says, does this mean my OS is corrupt?

 

[Sonic587]

Sounds like no PCI/AGP lock. Have you tried a system restore?

 

[mitchafi]

No I haven't tried system restore. I know my mobo has no PCI/AGP lock and I figured that was the reason I can't run 3DMark without crashing, but would no PCI/AGP lock be the reason for data corruption. Or is this just coincidence and my data is fine? Before I try system restore I'm going to wait it out and see if it happens again too many more times.

 

[cubanx]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
No I haven't tried system restore. I know my mobo has no PCI/AGP lock and I figured that was the reason I can't run 3DMark without crashing, but would no PCI/AGP lock be the reason for data corruption. Or is this just coincidence and my data is fine? Before I try system restore I'm going to wait it out and see if it happens again too many more times.

Since your hard drive in on the PCI bus this is very possible with no lock. I corrupted an OS a few years back overclocking the PCI bus since they didn't have locks back then. I had to reformat and reinstall the OS.

 

[mitchafi]

So what are some symptoms of a corrupted OS and can I fix it with WinXp Repair console? I'm not quite sure this is the case yet because I have had the HTT at 220 before (only briefly though) and none of this happened.

 

[chocoruacal]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
So what are some symptoms of a corrupted OS and can I fix it with WinXp Repair console? I'm not quite sure this is the case yet because I have had the HTT at 220 before (only briefly though) and none of this happened.

Well, sounds like you've already found out...corrupted data. This can be OS data, program data, MP3s, whatever. If you're lucky its just an OS error and you can do a system restore. Failing that, try a repair installation.