Tried overclocking, crashed, now things booting up weird

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I tried OCing my CPU today and before I could even get to try a stability test it crashed.
Here are my specs:

Asus M5a99fx Pro r2.0
AMD FX-6300
Cooler Master Hyper T4
EVGA GTX 750 ti FTW
Samsung 840 EVO 128gb

I used AMD Overdrive, as I've heard it's nice to test overclocking within windows, and not having to restart to the BIOS constantly. My CPU's stock clock is 3.5ghz with a boost to 3.8ghz normally. I turned off Turbo Core Control and set my CPU multiplier to 19.5x for a clock speed of 3.9ghz, just to try it out. I did not adjust the voltage at all. I figured 100mhz over the turbo couldn't hurt. But it crashed after 2-3 minutes. And now when I boot up, things are kind of weird.

I have a Dell monitor as my main display, and an analog projector hooked up to my graphics card to watch movies with. When I boot up, only the projector displays the boot screen and bios until windows is actually running, then the monitor kicks in. On top of that, my turbo core control is always off in AMD Overdrive now, so my CPU is running at it's normal speed of 3.5ghz. Also, when I boot up, my motherboard's red lights blink at the CPU_LED, BOOT_DEVICE_LED and a few others.

I want my monitor to run as the main display in case I need to get to my BIOS without turning the projector on. Also, almost none of the red LEDs used to light up. I figure my graphics card is making the analog projector a priority, and I can't find an option in the BIOS to make it otherwise. I mainly want to make sure there's no hardware problems, or at least some things that can't be fixed. I'd like to find a stable overclocked speed for my CPU in the future, but I'd like to not destroy my new PC while I'm at it.
 
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Disable AMD overdrive if that doesn't work then do a bios reset. Turbo automatically raises the voltage so you overclocking with turbo disabled un stock voltage actually makes the cpu run at the default non-turbo voltage while trying to reach above-turbo speeds.
 
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To begin with, you don't need to access BIOS in order for you to switch main display; all you have to do is simply go through your nVidia's "catalyst" (no clue how nvidia refers to its drivers screen) and look for it there.
Furthermore, I think you tempered with the wrong buttons while in BIOS as you tried pulling some clock speeds, and in return you got a few errors here and there and your motherboard is trying to tell you something (thus red light).
So, my advise is to reset the jumper 'CLRTC' and also I have heard something about TPU and EPU switches regarding the AMD3+ mobos and how you should check their status when something critical happens.

By the way, is your computer running as we speak? Could you check temperatures, system information (see what clock speed it currently displays), and when you over clocked did you go inside your case for whatever reasons?
 
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It is running. I just mainly want to understand what the errors are so I can learn from it.

Currently, my CPU's clock speed is a steady 3.5ghz with no turbo. The turbo was disabled after my PC crashed, and even though I turned it back on, it will not automatically load with the turbo enabled. I did not open my case at all to do anything, I had EVGA Precision X running in the background, and AMD Overdrive open to just experiment a little bit.

I'll try your suggestion and report what happens.
 
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keep me posted
 
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Seems like that made everything worse. I reset the CLTRC jumper. All of the error lights still flash on the boot up. Windows Explorer keeps crashing and all of my desktop icons are gone haha.

And the my display problem cannot be fixed by setting my monitor as the primary display. It's like before windows starts, the default display slot is the DVI output on my graphics card (which is hooked up to my projector). While my monitor only shows a display right at the Welcome screen of Windows.
 
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Did you check to see the TPU and EPU status? I heard that you must turn them off or something...Not sure.
I'm sorry to hear that this method had not worked for you
 
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Your board has both TPU (auto turbo) and EPU (Green energy power) and if you want to OC, both these chipsets need to be disabled, either with Asus software or manually by the board mounted switches.
After that, reset the bios to factory default settings, either by cmos jumper pin or in bios (f5 usually).
Manually turn off turbo in bios, it only screws with voltages anyways. Only then start bumping the multiplier up 1 notch, or 3.6GHz and test, continue like this until obvious instability or you find When errors in Windows event viewer. Only then will you have reached the limits of stock voltage settings, so thats when you can start adjusting other values from auto
 
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I did a system recovery and that made Windows run correctly again. All of the red LEDs light up during the boot sequence: CPU_LED, BOOT_DEVICE_LED, DRAM_LED, and VGA_LED. There don't seem to be any actual errors though. I deactivated the turbo control and the EPU in my BIOS, and I'll experiment with OCing manually. Would you recommend using a program like AMD Overdrive to test speeds within Windows? Or just use the BIOS settings to adjust the clock speed?
 
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Don't use any software for overclocking. Not even the AMD overdrive. It is not the thing that can be done by any software.
Now clear your CMOS to reset all settings to factory. And start overclocking from factory settings.
I will recommend to do overclocking in bios because it needs less voltage, higher oc and if also increase the processor life comparable to oc by software. Also If you get Any manual settings and of you go for that then the oc will be unstable and will produce more heat. If you give less voltage then you will get unstable oc and if you give higher voltage then it will produce more heat and will reduce CPUs life. So it is important to find a sweet point of correct combination of frequency and voltage. To do that Just follow this Steps:
1) just enable your XMP memory profile if your memory support that.
2) increase the cpu ratio from factory settings a little(whichever smallest possible) and boot in your os.
3) Download cpu stress testing software prime95 and do a stress test around 20 minutes.
4) if it passes then restart and go in bios, increase a little cpu ratio again a little bit.
5) if it passes then repeat 4th method. And if it not passes then go in bios and increase the CPU voltage and again test. Just keep doing that.
6) a time will arrive when the temp will gone so high, at that time you have to stop and keep it to cool.
7) also when doing upper methods you have to keep a eye on your temps.
8) a step will arrive when prime95 will never pass or the temp will gone so high immediately when stress test started, that point you have to stop and you get the unleashed speed of your processor. You got a stable oc now. Watch temps and don't let them go above 80. Best luck :)
Also see this below:
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Use your AMD overdrive to monitor your temps. But remember it gives thermal margin. It counts down not up. If you have "A" thermal margin means after "A" temp raise you have at the point to overheat. If the margin reaches zero then your cpu is overheated and immediately you have to shut it down to cool. I hope you understand. :)
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I adjusted everything in the BIOS and set my clock speed to 4ghz and tweaked the vcore up to 1.25v while changing the clock speed. I tuned down the Vcore to 1.188v (it jumps up to 1.212v under a stress test) which is only a hair higher than its default voltage. It's not getting above 60 degrees Celsius so I'm pretty happy with everything so far. I'll run a stress test for 8-12 hours a bit later to make sure it's completely stable. I'll try to OC it even more when I feel more confident.

I do have another question though. I've read that while testing clock speeds yout should turn AMD Cool n' Quiet off, and once you've found a stable OC, turn it back on. I just want to see if there's any opinion on this matter, does it really make a difference or not?
 
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No, AMD coo n' Quite really does a great job to keep the CPU cool. My brother had AMD A8 and he overclocked it to 4.6 GHz without disabling the Cool 'n Quite Feature. I will not recommend to disable the cool 'n Quite.
Cb :sol:
 
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