PC freezes after unstable overclock but cannot boot after it rests for a few minutes

[David_Kwan]

Hi guys,

So I recently upgraded my stock cooler on my 2600 to a CM 212 BE.

Before I used to run it at 3.9Ghz with the stock cooler.

 

After getting the 212 BE I pushed it to 4ghz. It was stable for a while but crashed midway during cinebench20. (I was thinking it may not have had enough voltage)

 

So this is where I'm confused at, since the PC freezes should I just press the power button to manually turn off the PC?

 

Because when I do this the PC shuts down, mobo lights are still on. But when I go to turn it on again it doesn't. So I switch off the psu at this point and wait it out.

After like 3-5 mins I turn the psu back on but my PC still doesn't boot up. The mobo lights flashes once after psu is switched on so I don't know why it doesn't boot.

I'll have to wait quite a bit before it turns on again.

 

Now have I been doing something wrong? If so can someone point it out for me?

And if I didn't do anything wrong, is it usually like this after an unstable overclock? Having to wait quite a bit before you can boot up the PC that is.

 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

My full specs are in my signature below.

[vaiwalker]

sounds like the cpu is over heating? check if its seated properly

[David_Kwan]

12 hours ago, vaiwalker said:

sounds like the cpu is over heating? check if its seated properly

All good, it just needed more voltage to stabilize. When I ran cinebench 20 max temps were around 66 at 4ghz oc.

Is that a good temp?

 

Since when I played Witcher 3 with stock cooler and 3.9ghz the temps were in the low 70s.