Possible overclock issue

[ainslie]

So I've been running the same overclock setup for a while now, I think I've been stable for the last 2 years or so. This morning however when I turned my PC on it failed to post several times before it restored my BIOS settings which allowed me to boot but reset my overclock. When I tried to reinstate my overclock I ended up with the same unable to post/boot problems. I have currently dialed back my overclock so I could try and check out what's going on using aida64 and what I've found is that when running the system stability test with the 'Stress Cache' option selected I get a hardware failure warning.

 

 

If anyone has any ideas why I'm getting this happen now and/or any possible solutions, I'd appreciate it

 

Also my ram speeds are showing as 800 MHz when I know it's either  1066 or 1333. Not sure if that's relevant but I know it's not right,

 

My system specs are:
CPU: AMD FX-6100 (Stock 3.3 GHz, previous clock speed 4.3 GHz, current clock speed 4.1 GHz)

RAM: 8 GB

GPU: EVGA GTX 960 4 GB

MOBO: ASRock 990FX Extreme 3

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

Looks to me like a Ram Problem of some type, as it is a Memory Warning but I doubt your CPU is the Problem Here

[samcool55]

You need to double the ram speed, when it says 800Mhz it actually runs at 1600Mhz.

I don't know the details why that is but i do know that's how it works.

 

Try the aida64 test with complete stock speeds. CPU, RAM, all stock speeds.

 

It's possible there's something degraded and is no longer stable at speeds it was stable before, yes that's a thing.

 

I had it with a DDR2 ram stick years ago, was stable af for over a year, after that only worked at stock speeds, any overclock would make it unstable and crash the complete system.

[CDHoward]

4 hours ago, ainslie said:

So I've been running the same overclock setup for a while now, I think I've been stable for the last 2 years or so. This morning however when I turned my PC on it failed to post several times before it restored my BIOS settings which allowed me to boot but reset my overclock. When I tried to reinstate my overclock I ended up with the same unable to post/boot problems. I have currently dialed back my overclock so I could try and check out what's going on using aida64 and what I've found is that when running the system stability test with the 'Stress Cache' option selected I get a hardware failure warning.

 

 

If anyone has any ideas why I'm getting this happen now and/or any possible solutions, I'd appreciate it

 

Also my ram speeds are showing as 800 MHz when I know it's either  1066 or 1333. Not sure if that's relevant but I know it's not right,

 

My system specs are:
CPU: AMD FX-6100 (Stock 3.3 GHz, previous clock speed 4.3 GHz, current clock speed 4.1 GHz)

RAM: 8 GB

GPU: EVGA GTX 960 4 GB

MOBO: ASRock 990FX Extreme 3

SamCool is right regarding RAM. I know it's stupid, but you have to double that number and then that's your actual RAM speed.

 

You may be trying to boot with too low voltage. Boot into BIOS and switch your CPU voltage to Manual or Offset, then save and reset.