Overclocking fail on Saturday.
 

So on Saturday I tried to take this quad core bio chip to a 300% Overclock.

I was only (of course) using liquid cooling, but failed to realize that 3 of the VCC lines were experiencing SIGNIFICANT vdrop. It was first thing in the morning, why I decided to go for broke at that point I am really not sure.

Well, I got stuck in a no post boot loop for a couple of minutes before I went into a system shutdown. Fortunately my sister was on her way over and brought some Technicians with her who were familiar with this type of no post situation.

They straightened it out with a 200 volt spike straight to the Vcc (that is CPU voltage) and my system returned to POST status at a much less impressive stock setting. Although all cores were not operating smoothly and significant hangs and stutters were experienced at the desktop level, certain lines of microcode were corrupted by the cooling failure, it was at least operating and allowing me to start running system recovery software.

I was fortunate I did not irrevocably damage anything, and after a couple of small upgrades to 5/8" ID piping, a silver coil to reduce future loop buildup, along with some new anti-malware solutions like a beta blocker (only running RTM software from now on), with proper usage I should be back in benching shape within a year.

There was consideration of installing a UPS system, but this chip was only 4 decades old and after further testing, it was determined that a few upgrades to the liquid loop were all that was necessary to bring this system back to normal operational status.

There are some other changes though and rather significant ones at that; it was long overdue and something I had pondered for a long time but I finally uninstalled smoke1pack.exe and extraCholesterol.exe.

I also had to trim a lot of lines of code out of my autoScript "salt.vbs" (It no longer runs on top of all other programs). In fact I have to go through all applications before installing them now to make sure they do not have their version of salt.vbs or the browser version sodium.js

I also have to rollback beer v12.0 all the way back to v1. So really why run it at all? I will considered returning to my roots of European Stout. Like Guiness 4.0, and just let that run over a weekend. But that will be a decision for Q2Y13 not at present.


So warning for all of you. If you have noticed poorer system performance lately, sluggish boot times, extra cycles necessary for recycle bin applications like fallleafcleanup.exe or if things get really bad and you notice can'trun3steps.sys in your task manager you really need to take your system to a certified technician and get your closed loop examined. ESPECIALLY if your parents PCs also have a history of running sluggishly.

LOL I need a new power supply XD

Took me a couple minutes to get this.
Take care of you're self bro, much luck on the recovery.

Wow Rich, I hope everything is ok and you are up and running soon

Best of luck and take care of yourself bro

Thanks guys.

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/o...s/facepalm.gif i was at work when i read it, didnt think its was about you :ohcrap:

hope you doing better bro

very creative guy, use your powers for good lol

Nice job. It tool me a few min to get it. It really did sound like your pc was messin up. LMAO

Get well bro.

Way to be stubborn Rich.

I highly recommend dying to everyone. I feel SOOO much better than I did even a month ago :)

Get better bro and do what the doc tells you .............. :thumbsup:

We need your sarcasm around here to keep prespective :laughing:

Hey Rich, glad you made it through, and the fact that you can joke about it is somewhat amazing :thumbsup: Take it slow it'll you're back to full boot capability :D

did they install an SSD so you boot faster?

Be sure to check out the pacemaker overclocking section at CP. ;)

:rofl:

I'm thinkin you really do have one there too :laughing:

Just a sample.

Warning: Opening will void warranty

That's disturbing ............. :laughing:

LMAO.

No more bio clocking for me. Working on turning my current one into a "e" branded. Getting the voltage and amperage requirements down to a more manageable level.

Ssssssssahhhhhhhh :shock: ouch!

Beer makes everything better Rich... Not sure i that made any sense

**^&%^|

Ahhhhhh, so fucken happy to be home!

Nope still takes me any hour to post in the morning, basically half a pot of coffee and a shower and I am at operational speed.

I swear the gave me steroids though, I feel amazing now.

Still have to watch the multi hour prime 64 tests though, as I get a little light headed and start throwing some computational errors. I was told that healing can take months though. I am trying not to force it, but it is hard to do.

I blew past the "dont lift more than 5 pounds rule" before I even left the repair facility lol

The spot where they went into the femoral VCC line three times is all healed up though, only a small yellow bruise now instead of the massive purple/black area that covered about the size of a microATX motherboard.

For all you guys that do not eat a lot of fruit and veggies. I have learned something now that I am eating my daily requirement of rabbit food. Why the hell would anyone want a bathroom attached to their bedroom? My God the odor is terrible!

At OCM: Welcome back. And Beer is good :) I just switched from lots of cheap beer to less, but better tasting beers :ohcrap: Drank most of a 12 pack of Guinness Extra Stout on Christmas Eve (over an 8 hour period). :thumbsup: