Something strange has happened

[psmcginnis]

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.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I had similar issues once, my memory had gone bad. RMA'd it and problem was fixed.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Yep, something has gone south🙁 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)

 

[fixxxer0]

I'd say its memory.... Mine failed twice now after running at stock voltages but slightly higher timings.

 

[psmcginnis]

Thanks for input. I'll play around some more and update you all with any forward progress...

 

[theMan]

could also be the psu. you should try reflashing the bios.

 

[maluckey]

Hardware going south. Sorry🙁


Find it fast.......it gets expensive really quick IF it is the PSU. I'd start there. RAM is more of a nuisance and easier by far to check with Memtest86.

Check the RAM first though.