Please Help Me?

[Bonner]

I have a PIII 550e on a abit bf6 mobo. when i try to overclock it. It boot up half way then an errror message "unable to initialize......windows protection error" can someone tell me why and how can i fix it. Thanks you in advance. Have a good day.

[Jon]

Try putting a little more voltage to it. If that doesn't work then you may be heating up a bit too much.

Lot's of times it's a device complaining about a high bus speed but I would try more voltage to start out with. Just make sure you have enough cooling if you're going to go high.

[Bonner]

i set my cpu back to normal 550 mhz. Now i have a new problem, it boot alright. but then about 20 min. the whole system shut down. I cant even start it back up. I have to unplug the core and plug it back again. why it does this. the temperature is fine 50 C. U think the cpu cooler got any thing do with that. My com case deliver on 250w max.

[Tim-]

50c is pretty hot! I've seen the coppermines become unstable at those temps. The error you were having sounds like the hard drive may be having a problem from the overclocking. What cooling do you have? What FSB were you running that caused the problem? What hard drive are you using?

[wild_andy_c]

Protection error usually arises not necessarily from VccCore voltage at all. This is a memory problem. Try using a higher I/O voltage or better memory.

Too many people are just suggesting upvolts I think when it is not always the problem.

did you know that the power draw of an overclocked GeForce is enough to knock a lot of o/c systems over. There are so many variables.

The 50°c you have is most probably a freaky measurment from the ubiquitus internal die probe. If a coppermine CPU were at 50°c it would surely go into hysterisis.