Overclocking & Vista

[KoolDrew]

I have the system in my sig and am trying to overclock it. However, if I change the voltage or HT link multi or something like that Vista refuses to boot. It will get to the log in screen and ask me for a password, but ussually goes to a black screen after that. It's weird because I haven't even begun overclocking yet. I was just setting the HT link multi lower to try to find the max for my CPU. I've tried every setting and it still does it. It seems if either of those two settings are not stock it won't boot. There was one time I could get it to boot with a 4x multi and everything else at stock. However, after I found the max at the stock voltage I wanted to up the voltage, but then it wouldn't boot.

Anybody have any ideas how to fix this? I have been running Vista on this computer for a while now without any problems. It's just now that I'm trying to overclock and Vista doesn't want to accept any changed settings.

 

[KoolDrew]

After messing around with it a bit more it seems to me that the RAM divider is the one causing all the problems. I tried botting at 100MHz and 133MHz, but it wouldn't boot until I set it back to 200MHz. That's with the HT Link multi set to 3x and the voltage bumped up .05v.

So, anybody have any suggestions?

 

[Zim]

I have built two Vista systems now and had more than my share of problems. However in retrospect the problems were not the fault of Vista. Where Vista falls down is its poor diagnosis and reporting of problems. It's very tempting to blame the OS if it mysteriously hangs, reboots, or goes into some sort of perpetual explorer loading loop... but in every instance I found that it was hardware related. Unfortunately I had to install Windows XP to get a reasonable error message.

Sorry I can't be of more help.