- May 24, 2007
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Earlier in the year I purchased an Asrock 4coreDual-Vsta mobo, two weeks ago I added an E4300 cpu, Crucial 2gb DDR2 PC2-5300 CL=5 unbuffered non-ecc DDR2 - 667 1.8v, Artic freezer 7pro. My aim was a modest overclock to around the 2.4 or 2.5 which I thought would be easily achieved. I have the latest bios update 1.70 set to its optimum settings, I have steadily increased the cpu frequency in steps of 10 from 200 to 210 and then 220 all appeared steady but when I went for 230 it booted up into windows xp pro but I have skype and msn messenger to load automatically and two windows came up to say there had been a critical error and in fact i couldnt load either. Also avast came up and said it needed to reboot, I rebooted pc three times each time the same problems coming up. I dropped the frequency back to 220 and pc boots up fine, compared to many this is really low oc and I am more than a little disappointed. I have read all the recommended guides listed in the forum but I was wondering or hoping some one could suggest any ideas. Thank you.