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overclocking and fail to boot

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Xenos

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Hi all

I have been trying some oclocking with limited success but at one point while trying to push past 3.06Ghz I oviously made a setting adjustment in bios which caused a boot failure. Can anyone tell me how to get back a boot so that I can get into bios and change that setting. I hope that I have not wrecked the thing because I am fairly new to overclocking.
 
Thanks nanak, will try it soon as I get off from work. Think I should find it in the mobo manual, or do you have a particular procedure. Mobo is D975XBX2. Got another question. Am using 800mhz, 2Gb of memory, and E6600. I understand 1:1 ratio is the ideal which I would achieve at 400 fsb setting x9 the multiplier. But I have my reservations about 3.6Ghz stability so 3.2 would suffice for me. How can I achieve this and still maintain the 1:1 ratio or is this absolutely necessary.
 
You can drop your multiplier down to 8X, and maintain the 400FSB, which would give you a 3.2GHz clockspeed (assuming you want to maintain the 1:1 ratio.) Maintaining a 1:1 ratio isn't really that necessary though; high FSB with high clockspeed are king
 
Thanks Matt but my multiplier is locked at x9 on the E6600, at least there is no where in bios that I can see where it can be altered.
 
If your MB has a feature called Crash Free BIOS (ASUS term, perhaps something similar in other manufacturers' MB's) press the Reset switch during boot - it should return the settings to the pre-OC state.

Otherwise - clear the CMOS.
 
Thanks everyone
Up and running again, clearing the cmos did it, now back to the ocing thing. Carefully shooting for 3.2Ghz stable. What's the best stress tester? I have prime95 downloaded so far.
 
Doesn't Prime95 itself say that Large FFTs produce the most heat (and consume the most power)?

I've always used the Large FFTs for initial stress testing while overclocking.
 
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