New OC... occasional post failure

[crazylegs]

Hi all...

have recently finished OCing to what i thought was a stable OC:

AMD64 3000+ (Venice E6) @ 295 x 8.5 = 2510MHz

Was Prime95 Stable over 16 hours.. max load temp was 53C and vcore = 1.55v

Seems to be working fine with all games/ applications

BUT,

juast had a post failure after a restart... said to reset to default or try again...

tried again and posts fine!!

WHAT DO YOU THINK THE PROBLEM IS???

WEAK PSU TO BLAME???

thanks all !

 

[Fallengod]

Well prime stable for over 16 hours would definitely hint at something other than a cpu problem. That seems pretty stable. It could very well be the PSU. Sorta hard to say.

I will say ive had a PSU go bad and strange stuff like that would happen. Everything would work flawlessly then randomly get harddrive bootup problems and corruption of harddrive data.

Im sure others can toss out some more ideas.

 

[nomagic]

How many times has this happened? If it is just a single incident, troubleshooting would seem pointless and difficult. If it happens multiple times, then you should worry about it.

No offense, just my 2C.

 

[Fallengod]

Ya exactly what I meant. Its sorta hard to say what the problem is from 1 incident heh.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Which prime test did you run for 16hr?

I would use Prime small files for 12hrs, S&M for 12hrs, and memtest from boot CD for 12hrs. I won't call an O/C completely stable untill it passes all three.

Dust bunnies? Just because and overclock is stable doesn't mean it will stay that way

 

[crazylegs]

was prime small for like 16hrs... not done mem test as MEM not OCed.. used divider...

 

[Hand Ov DooM]

Sounds like a PSU issue to me.

 

[Thor86]

You need to test largeFFT for at least 24 hours straight without errors to check for cpu max heat stability.

But from what your symptoms are, it sounds like memory setting issues.