Hi,
If i over clock to far, my computer will go in an endless loop of restarts. I found this out the hard way. I had been running my comp at 2.02 ghz and it ran good for about a mounth. (I stress tested it and all was good) The other day i found my computer in endless reboots so I imedialy un over clocked it thinking that was the problem. It still did not start and i put in the windows cd-rom and repaired it somhowe. Now it works fine. So the question is: Did the overcloocking cause this or am i safe to go back up to 2.02ghz? It may of been a viris but i have heard of an over clocked procesor curupting HD data. Is this true or do the two have nothing to do with one another. Thanks for any advice. Right now C&C generals lags horible w/o the 2.02ghz

Thanks,
Cody

if you overclock too much and you do not have an agp/pci bus lock in the bios...then yes you can have data corruption...most overclocker friendly boards have a 66/33 lock on them..66 mhz for agp and 33 mhz for pci..as you overclock, the pci bus increases and i have heard that if it goes past 38 mhz, you get problems

Abit AS8 LGA775 2.8 Prescott
512 Corsair XMS PC3200
128 meg Radeon 9800 Pro
DUAL 36 GIG WD Raptors
DUAL 21 in. ( 19.8 viewable ) Sony Trinitrons
3+ Mbps cable connection

2,02GHz, that means ~17x119MHz???

That would mean an unlocked AGP of 79,22MHz and a PCI of 39,6MHz.

That might be too much for either your PCI or graphic card or may even corrupt some data on the harddrive because the ide controllers are also connected to the PCI bus!

Not every stresstest will bring a slightly unstable system down but the way it happened try about 115/116MHz and you should be fine!
Or check your bios for a PCI/AGP lock at 33/66MHz!