Quote Originally Posted by Fiskbit View Post
I cleared CMOS and got into the BIOS. The boot order is currently:

1. Floppy
2. WD Caviar 640GB
3. WD Caviar 640GB
4. Seagate 750GB
5. DVD-RW
6. DVD-RW

The two WD drives are in RAID 0. After getting the BIOS settings back to how they were, the computer booted up just fine!

This is the 4th or 5th time it's crashed today, though, so something's unstable. What do you recommend I change to try to stabilize it?

I apologize for my newness; I'm entirely new to overclocking. I'm looking forward to learning how all of this works. Thanks.

Edit: Just rebooted again out of the blue. Happened very quickly and gave no error.

Edit 2: I tried a 75 MHz overclock without touching anything else but RAM (running 1:1) and things are running stable so far. Perhaps it will stay that way. Here's hoping.

Edit 3: Still can't get this thing stable. I'm running at 2.55 GHz now and don't know what to do to get it to stop crashing. Just been slowly upping the FSB, but I can't keep doing that because the core temperatures are rising (currently idling at 39 C).
I think the best advice to you is to slow down a little and read a lot. Overclocking, to me, is more than just grabbing a set of good looking numbers that someone threw up on a random website screenshot. The numbers I decide on for my hardware are usually arrived at after many hours (days,weeks?) of playing. Most times this includes numerous flashes to find 'my' best bios, dozens of crashes, freezes and bios resets, a few reinstalls (trueimage is my friend), hardware swaps, and the settings hopefully evolve as I dream (nightmares?) up something new to try. When I see someone saying 'my system is crashing what do I do?' the first thing I look at is ram, then power supply, and cooling. If those are satisfactory the next is timings. But 99% of the time the answer to oc problems is voltage. Naturally more voltage=greater cooling needs. If I can't get stable I generally don't have enough voltage somewhere for a given oc. Then it becomes a process of elimination, trial and error, and most of all patience.