Windows XP Overclocking Help?

Question

When overclocking my Asus P4S8X-MX motherboard with a Celeron 345 3.06 Ghz it runs fine but once i restart my PC windows wont load saying that it is missing some file

even overclocking it a little causes problems and i have reinstalled windows countless times trying to find an overclock that will work...i am just curious how it is corrupting a file on my hdd

Answer 1

First of all, overclocking isn't simple. Being good at overclocking a computer is almost the equivalent of being good at rebuilding a car's engine. Both take awhile to get good at, and both take awhile to learn which things need to be changed, and which should never be changed. If it were easy, your grandmother would be an overclocker.

Your motherboard has AGP & PCI locks, both of which you aren't using, and not using them (the PCI lock, anyway) is causing your data corruption, since your hard drive uses the PCI bus to communicate with the processor.

Once you are in the BIOS, here's how to enable the AGP & PCI locks on your motherboard: go to the "Advanced" section, then "Chipset Clock Mode", and change it to "Asynchronous". If you have slower RAM, then you'll have to enable memory dividers.

Now, don't expect to get too far without buying a better psu (power supply) and cpu heatsink. You may very well need to buy faster RAM, if you don't have memory dividers in your BIOS.

Answer 2

Back up the overclock a bit and see what happens. If the problem goes away then don't overclock past that point. Different chips can handle it better than others. You just don't know until you try. If the problem doesn't go away then your overclocking cause data errors and you'll have to reinstall to fix it.

Answer 3

It sound like you ether corupted the motherbord when puting it in or the motherbord was not ment for your computer or the motherbord is not functioning right. what i would do is take it to some where like geek squad or comp usa to get it fixed