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Hard Restarts From Overclocking

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RollingThunder

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Jan 7, 2005
Does most everyone experience hard restarts when you get into higher overclocks? I'm moving up a little on vcore and I seem to remember reboots sometimes require more than one restart. Is this similar to Asr's suggestion of draining the caps due to more stress on them?
 
When I was pushing into the upper limits of my OC, if it made it into windows, I would sometimes get a hard lockup that would require either a push of the reset button or a hard powerdown (hold in power button until it shuts down). This could take place anywhere from the desktop with nothing running to several hours into Prime95 testing. Occasionally I would also get random reboots/ restarts as well.
 
chevro1et said:
When I was pushing into the upper limits of my OC, if it made it into windows, I would sometimes get a hard lockup that would require either a push of the reset button or a hard powerdown (hold in power button until it shuts down). This could take place anywhere from the desktop with nothing running to several hours into Prime95 testing. Occasionally I would also get random reboots/ restarts as well.

Ok, I'm not in that high area yet, just running @ 2676 Mhz on 1.375 vcore. No problems whatsoever entering Windows or shutting down. It's just when it's from a cold restart overnight that this happens on occasion. The first cold startup doesn't always happen and another cold start solves the problem so I am ssuming this could continue the further I overclock.
 
RollingThunder said:
Ok, I'm not in that high area yet, just running @ 2676 Mhz on 1.375 vcore. No problems whatsoever entering Windows or shutting down. It's just when it's from a cold restart overnight that this happens on occasion. The first cold startup doesn't always happen and another cold start solves the problem so I am ssuming this could continue the further I overclock.
RT, I believe Asrock requires cold boot at certain HT overclock. If I remember on mine, from 200 to 230mhz just save exit bios and let bios do it's thing and load windows. But @ and over 232mhz had to completely shutdown pc (cold boot) for changes to take place and boot. Once I have done this, thereon from 232 up just save/exit, load bios right into windows no problem. I recall KillerBuckeye's suggestion to enable raid so that bios has a delay boot that gives bios time to incorporate the new settings and thus not hang requiring cold boot. You might try that and see if it eliminates cold boot.
 
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