Weird thing happened. I've had an Athlon64 system at stable overclock for ~ 1yr without ever having problems. Went away for the weekend (accidently left machine on). Came back and found the computer power off. Tried to boot the machine and it started a continuous cycle of booting into windows for ~1-5 sec, then flashing a BSOD and spontaneously rebooting. Ended up updating BIOS, reformatting HD and doing fresh windows install.
Machine now runs rock solid at stock settings, but fails Prime95 torture test within ~1 minute if any components are even slightly overclocked. It was stable before with processor @ 2.5Ghz, 1:1 memory ratio (2.5 4 4 10).
My system:
Antec True 480
Athlon64 3200+
MSI K8N Neo2 Plat
2 x 512 OCZ 3200 Plat rev 2
BFG 6800 GT OC
Any ideas? If figure something got fried on the mobo.
Machine now runs rock solid at stock settings, but fails Prime95 torture test within ~1 minute if any components are even slightly overclocked. It was stable before with processor @ 2.5Ghz, 1:1 memory ratio (2.5 4 4 10).
My system:
Antec True 480
Athlon64 3200+
MSI K8N Neo2 Plat
2 x 512 OCZ 3200 Plat rev 2
BFG 6800 GT OC
Any ideas? If figure something got fried on the mobo.
You need to isolate the overclocking variables again, pain in the butt I know. But test for max HTT by dropping cpu multi and ram divider, test max ram by dropping cpu multi, etc... etc... My guess would be either ram or mobo(HTT)
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