Overclock…FAIL?!?

Man – I’m a little bummed out. This was the *only* time I’ve ever overclocked anything and didn’t have something go wrong – I mean, I never even pushed it far enough to error out in Prime95 – I was strictly playing Mr. Conservative.

Today when leaving for work, I shut down my PC – normally, I “sleep”, but with the wind today and the call for a chance of T-storm, knowing how my power likes to go out for no reason, I decided to shut down.

I get home just now – power it on. She spins up, spins down, spins up again, spins down again, and then spins back up. At post, she’s reporting 1200MHz (6×200MHz). I think “what the heck?” and quickly catch delete in time to get into the BIOS. Once I got into the BIOS, I was presented with an error – something to the effect of “Some of the values on this page may not reflect actual settings due to the system failing to boot due to bad hardware settings” (not word for word, but close enough for translation).

Kinda freaked me out – I simply hit F7, loaded Fail-Safe defaults for that page, and called it good for now. I did check other pages where I knew I had changed settings, and nothing seems to have changed anywhere else. I’m not sure what happened, but gosh, I was barely pushing the thing.

Anyway – it is fast enough @ stock anyway – I have to run a benchmark to tell a difference. I might try again if I can built of the confidence, but I just spend a lot of money on this rig – Too much to risk it!