Pentium G3258 crashes on any OC attempts.

edgartoro

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I've been attempting to overclock my Intel Pentium G3258 on my H81M-P33 motherboard but upon any changes made in the BIOS, my computer crashes on startup. This holds true no matter how minor the changes i.e: 3.2 Ghz, to 3.3 Ghz.

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Using MSI Intel extreme tuning utility as a work-around as not worked because when i attempt to unlock the CPU overclocker, it simply says that the action could not be completed after my system restarts.

The crash is not a blue screen, during booting, when it says 'starting windows' the system simply restarts and tries again a couple of times before the motherboard says the the OC failed and reverts back to regular settings.

Using MSI Live Update 6, everything has been updated to it's latest version.

Thank you for any and all assistance.
 
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Hahaha I did the exact same thing. Decided screw that and got a new 2011-3 motherboard with 5820k

The G3258 was such a good budget processor that could be overclocked to perform quite nicely, take away or complicate the overclocking and it loses all it's value.

edgartoro

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I'm still on Windows 7 :)
 

izoli

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Nevermind looks like that issue was solved, it was why I got rid of the cpu though.

Although I know at the time motherboard manufacturers made bios updates on non h97 boards that removed ability to oc as a work around to get the cpu to work at all on Windows 10, maybe you are using a bios version that has that implemented, have you tried a different bios version?
 

edgartoro

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Yes, I have tried multiple versions of my BIOS, but not purposefully if I'm going to be honest. I updated my BIOS twice, and tried overclocking my CPU 3 times on 3 different BIOS versions.
 

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I have the exact same issue with the same motherboard and cpu combo. I however am running Win server 2008 R2. Searching around for similar cases it would seem that for some people that doing a fresh install of the OS solved their problem. I myself am not ready to try that but it may be something that would work for you.
 

izoli

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Hahaha I did the exact same thing. Decided screw that and got a new 2011-3 motherboard with 5820k

The G3258 was such a good budget processor that could be overclocked to perform quite nicely, take away or complicate the overclocking and it loses all it's value.

 
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