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System crashed due to overclocking
Name: JAson Date: June 25, 2002 at 09:14:14 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Celeron 766 - (66 * 11.5) with Award BIOS. I am running windows 98SE. System sometimes becomes very unstable and crashes with no error message (just a black screen). This can occur at any time during boot-up or in idle windows screen. Sometimes after re-booting I get a "system crashed due to host overclocking" error. I haven't tried overclocking. Can anyone help?
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What can i do?
