OCing wrecked my Raptor?

[Duvie]

This is amazing...This is the worst sight of overall corruption I have ever seen when ocing...Usually I go to far and it doesn't boot and I have to clear the cmos....I have never corrupted an install of windows ever ocing....(knock on wood)...

 

[n7]

Holy sh!t i think i may have figured it out! *hopes madly*

I think it may have just been the new bios after all.

I had put my roomie's RAM in since mine tested with a few errors...& i put it in the first slot, forgetting that way back when i first got this mobo, i had BSODs & trouble till i switched which slots my RAM was in!

I gave up tonight, & was putting back my roomie's RAM in their PC since they needed it...& i remembered that.

I put my own RAM back in slots 2 & 3...& voila 😛 I got into UT2k4 & it didn't crash...i got the Audidy software installed...3DMark installed...damnit i hope that's it!
Gotta do some more testing...but i think that was it! 🙂

 

[NesuD]

I have seen drives corrupted by overclocking behave this way before. Repartition and reformat all you want to but windows wigs trying to install and if it finally does install it runs like crap. unexplained crashes BSODs. Solution is to write zeros to the drive then repartition and reformat. Can't tell you what it is about this type of corruption but all i can figure is it screws up something on the drive that partioning and formatting don't normally touch. Seems writing zeros fixes it up though. Give that a try and see if it starts behaving. I have used this several times on drives i thought were going dead and if it could successfully complete the write zero process they were always fine after that.

 

[NesuD]

hope thats all it was.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: NesuD
hope thats all it was.

Same here.

It seems to good to be true, TBH, but i got excited for a second there.

I will see soon enough i'm sure.