Rockwall Posted June 7, 2009 Posted June 7, 2009 Hey guys, Firstly my specs are... AMD Phenom X3 Toliman 2.3Ghz Processor AM2+ Socket. Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe Motherboard 4gb OCZ Platnium DDR2 1066mhz Ram 500gb Seagate Barracuda Sata 32mb Buffer Nvidia Geforce 9800GT Ultimate Series Ok, recently ive been running Windows Professional XP 32-bit for awhile and was able to get a stable overclock at 2.8Ghz CPU speed at 1100Mhz Ram speed. I had to lower the multiplier of the HT link so i could achieve this with this processor, but it seems that trying to run it at 3.2Ghz will work but will cause a memory dump error not too long after windows xp starts up. Now i recently Installed Windows 7 RC Beta onto another hard drive while my system was at default stock settings. After installing Windows 7, i reapply my Staple overclock of 2.8Ghz and boot windows 7 up. When the logo appears it will do its little animation thing then it will freeze. Upon restarting and trying again i got to the login screen when it froze again. And last time i tried I actually got into windows, but then got a BSOD and memory dump. Im wondering if there is something i have to do in order to overclock my system and run windows 7 at the same time, because its a staple overclock but seems Windows 7 doesnt like it. Is this just a Windows 7 Bug thing or compatibility thing or something completely different? So far the only way i can run Windows 7 is keeping my processor at stock setting of 2.3Ghz. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
9KRacing Posted June 7, 2009 Posted June 7, 2009 This is windows 7 telling you your overclock is NOT stable. I stated in an earlier thread that windows 7 is very touchy when it comes to overclocking and you will get BSODs quite often until you reach a stable BIOS setting. I have found windows 7 to be a great OC test in and of itself... while in Vista I could boot up and run Prime for 10 mins or so before getting errors, Windows 7 will actually BSOD before even getting into prime with the same settings. Just consider it Windows saving you the time of running stress tests. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgv115 Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Yes, I got the same thing as you. I ran OCCT on Windows 7 with my OC BSOD straight away. I went on XP, no problamo! In the end I just upped the vcore, then I had no problems. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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