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Overclocking my own worst enemy...???

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Detselom

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I have a little problem here, i am gonna try to explain it so i can get some feed back on a solution or an explanation.

I was at a lan party this weekend playing nfshp 2 and it suddently froze. Rebooted, but when it tried to load windows it blue screened. It posted fine on my overclocked system. Yes its completly stable, ran prime95 and all those tests, havent had a problem with it for months. Took out my hds and plugged it into another computer and noticed some files where not accesable beacuse they were courrupt. When i first booted up on the other computer testing out my drive it wanted to run a scan disk on the ones from my other system. My primary drive had somefiles that i could back and others were currupted but on my secondary drive the thing was unreadable in windows saying the whole volume is currupted when accessing the drive. Some one at that lan party might have had a virus possibly? Happened before. Or did over clocking currupted my drives? I would think overclocking would just kill them.

I have a 60 gig maxtor that a reformatted and reinstalled windows 2k on it and my computer is running fine now. No signs of any physical dammage. My other maxtor 40 gb i am trying to recover some imporant files off of it before wiping it.

Should i try running a virus checker on the drives maybe?

HELP

Edit: Anyone know an easy yo use file recovery program?

 
Something to remember when your overclocking. Your always shortening the life of something. If the RAM is overclocked too high and timed to aggressively even if it seemed stable at first. After its wear and tear things like this can happen. I lost my pci.sys file once and had to reinstall Windows altogether.

Another way to look at it is if your HD is becoming corrupt.
 
Does your motherboard have a AGP/PCI frequency lock? Sounds like data corruption caused by fsb speeds or possibly ram errors, although memory speeds that are too fast should show up in Prime95. Though 37.5MHz for the pci bus should not be too fast for Maxtor hard drives. Try running Memtest to check the ram integrity.
 
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