batboy
01-25-01, 01:35 PM
I've been pushing my Celeron 566, trying to get 1 Gig out of it. I can now run it at 978 (115X8.5), fairly stable. I can post and boot into Windows safe mode at 1020 MHz, but it pukes at the startup in normal mode. I won't bore you with everything I've done to get this close or list off all the goodies on my current order I have on the way right now. But, I'm getting close to pulling down 1020. I knew it need more cooling since I was running 1.9v, but I was too eager to wait for my new GlobalWin cooler and Arctic Silver thermal paste, so I keep trying and eventually pushed my system too far. What I ended up doing was scrambling one of my harddrives and totally screwing up my Windows registry.
Let this be a lesson to you guys. I lost all my data, but was finally able to fdisk and reformat my harddrive (those rumors that Maxtor don't like O/C must be true). I had to reinstall Windows and then spend two days with Norton Utilities fixing all the damage. From now on, I'm going to Ghost my master harddrive to my slave and then disconnect the slave during my extreme overclocking attempts. If I ever have another failure, I'll just swap in the backup harddrive and be back in business again. I'm just lucking there was no permanent damage...but it sure was a great big hassle!
Let this be a lesson to you guys. I lost all my data, but was finally able to fdisk and reformat my harddrive (those rumors that Maxtor don't like O/C must be true). I had to reinstall Windows and then spend two days with Norton Utilities fixing all the damage. From now on, I'm going to Ghost my master harddrive to my slave and then disconnect the slave during my extreme overclocking attempts. If I ever have another failure, I'll just swap in the backup harddrive and be back in business again. I'm just lucking there was no permanent damage...but it sure was a great big hassle!