computer stopped working after CPU overclocking

avidgamer121 · February 27, 2023

So couple of hours ago my computer stopped giving me display output as i was browsing LTT Forum with few other tabs open

i overclock my CPU like 5hours ago with ez tune wizard which claimed to give me 20% performance boost as i was having decent load temps 58-62c i thought it would be worth it as i do have the headroom

i also had my GPU well overclocked but that's not the culprit as tried taking it out

I have tried clearing CMOS by taking out the battery and shorting the specific 2 pins mentioned in manual and boot cycle quite a few times, i might have killed my CPU (who knows)?

Another strange behaviour was while the fan on GPU and CPU are working fine both the case fans stopped working when failure occured

I wonder if that oc pushed too much voltage on CPU resulting in failure

I'm worried if there is a short somewhere

Godlygamer23 · February 28, 2023

What validation did you do on the overclock? Did you look at voltages after the overclock was applied while under a stress test? What are the rest of your system specs?

avidgamer121 · February 28, 2023

2 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

What validation did you do on the overclock? Did you look at voltages after the overclock was applied while under a stress test? What are the rest of your system specs?

No i didn't check voltage i had no idea about it, i didn't do any stress test, please check my profile for specs it's a pain to type on phone for me

Godlygamer23 · February 28, 2023

7 minutes ago, xdagamer said:

No i didn't check voltage i had no idea about it, i didn't do any stress test, please check my profile for specs it's a pain to type on phone for me

Clear the CMOS again with the same method. Make sure power is disconnected before clearing it, clear it, and let it sit for a few minutes before trying again.