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darkenedsoul

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I had OC my mobo. But it turned off automatically, then turned on again to show OC fail. After that, I lowered the value and it OC'ed succesfully. But then again it showed very minimal result, so I decided to reset the FSB to default. The PC booted without signs of problem. The next day, it suddenly went weird. It POSTs after 2 hours of repetitive cold booting, rebooting itself 5 times then boot normally.

I have reset the CMOS jumper, removed the battery after 15 minutes , reseated the RAM, reconnecting the HDD, but the problem still occurs.

Specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 Ghz 3 GB of RAM 800 Mhz DDR2 NVIDIA Geforce GT 440 1GB DDR2 1TB and 500GB Seagate HDDs TASCAM US-122 MKII USB Soundcard Biostar G31M7-TE

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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I would update the bios. take all your memory out and just run one stick to see if it stops. also remove the ram and see if your get any beeps or errors as wel.

I had a similar problem but It would constantly reboot and blues screens with different errors even with a lower overclock. finally had to reset my bios to defaults and run a startup repair on 8.1 and it was fine.

I believe it was a problem with 8.1 since yesterday I saw a fix for the same error code I was receiving related to usb3.0
 
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Thanks for the reply

There are no beeps or errors
After 2 hours or more the system boots so well.. It's so freakly weird.

I forgot to say that I use Windows 7 SP1 also I have updated the BIOS to the latest one

Well my mobo is old so it only has usb 2.0

Still the problem won't go away

 
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From what you've described it sounds like one of two things to me.

1. Your power supply isn't sufficient for the OC, or its started to go bad in some way.

2. I've had OC attempts corrupt Windows 7 or 8 completely to the point where I needed to restore an image or clean install, even after clearing the bios back to defaults. Might be worthwhile if you're getting past the bios on reboot to try Unbuntu on a usb drive or disk to see if the OS is corrupted.
 
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Possible way to test the power supply is to remove the 640 if you have on-board graphics on the MB just to drop the total system power draw and evaluate if there a difference in sequence of events.
 
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that was my other thought psu related. the only time I heard of an overclock corrupting something was from upping the pcie frequency too high since that also controls other components.
 
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I hadn't either until I did it a few years ago while pushing a Phenom x6 in likely an ill-advised and inexperienced manner. The OS was trash wouldn't even repair from the recovery disk. I always create an OS drive image once I have everything set, so wasn't a huge loss.
 
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