OC utilities crashing my pc at boot...no settings tweaked

godfodder

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Sep 15, 2008
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i recently purchased an nvidia geforce 7600 gs agp 512mb brand new from ebay (joy). while it works great in this older machine, i would like to push it a bit more. upon reading a bit on the net, i have seen reference to a couple of different programs to OC it. one was just a reg entry, coolbits. after entering it into the registry, the next time i rebooted my pc froze up and that was that. i had to go into safemode and do a system restore (because i don't know how to undo a reg entry). the second program i tried rivatuner with identical results. i had changed no settings, but after reboot it froze. this time instead of system restore, i reinstalled the latest drivers for the card and all is well.

does anyone have any idea what is causing this? and could someone suggest a decent appy for OCing my card?

AMD sempron 2800+
2x Hynix 1gb DDR3200 200mhz ram set at 3-3-3-7

....what else to add?
 

mpilchfamily

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Jun 11, 2007
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Its freazing because its overheating. Get a better cooler on the card and you should be stable.