I am new to overclocking CPUs and this is my first overclock. I'm using my personal rig for the overclocking which the specs are as follows:
Ga-78LMT-USB3 v4
FX-8120 (Unlocked)
(4x4) 16 Gb DDR3
Tri-OC R9-290
Sentey 850w 80plus Bronze
Cooler Master 212 Evo
Windows 10 Home
I followed poster "ingtar33" 's steps in an overclocking guide for this chip back in 2013
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1815595/amd-8120-overclocking.html
and all was working well when I was upping the CPU multiplier from stock 3.1 Ghz all the way to 4.0 Ghz, but when I upped the clock to 4.1 Ghz things went a bit crazy. I received a blue screen with an error message : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and it would not go away or fix itself. I did a forced reboot of my system and was welcomed by my PC telling me that my clock has been reset to stock values. Then I proceeded to boot normally on stock values and I couldn't post because it said it had some kind of error and I had to use xpressboot2 from my boards options or boot from pressing F1. Now I can't restart my system or shutdown;boot my system without the post error and the error about my clock values having to be reset. I went into my BIOS and everything is back on auto and the clock speed is back to stock 3100 Mhz.
I'm unsure if there is something I did wrong by following a poster's instructions or if I have damaged my MOBO and or my CPU.
If it helps, the last stable clock speed I had my CPU running at for over 10 mins was 4.0 Ghz
Ga-78LMT-USB3 v4
FX-8120 (Unlocked)
(4x4) 16 Gb DDR3
Tri-OC R9-290
Sentey 850w 80plus Bronze
Cooler Master 212 Evo
Windows 10 Home
I followed poster "ingtar33" 's steps in an overclocking guide for this chip back in 2013
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1815595/amd-8120-overclocking.html
and all was working well when I was upping the CPU multiplier from stock 3.1 Ghz all the way to 4.0 Ghz, but when I upped the clock to 4.1 Ghz things went a bit crazy. I received a blue screen with an error message : IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and it would not go away or fix itself. I did a forced reboot of my system and was welcomed by my PC telling me that my clock has been reset to stock values. Then I proceeded to boot normally on stock values and I couldn't post because it said it had some kind of error and I had to use xpressboot2 from my boards options or boot from pressing F1. Now I can't restart my system or shutdown;boot my system without the post error and the error about my clock values having to be reset. I went into my BIOS and everything is back on auto and the clock speed is back to stock 3100 Mhz.
I'm unsure if there is something I did wrong by following a poster's instructions or if I have damaged my MOBO and or my CPU.
If it helps, the last stable clock speed I had my CPU running at for over 10 mins was 4.0 Ghz