PC Doesn't Boot after too much overclocking

Hello, I'm CrazyKilla

I love games, but what i mostly love about them is their beauty, the graphics and that realistic crap,
But if i Play games like Skyrim or L.A. Noire, i get Lag, (Only on Highest Settings)

Heres some of my specs:

Dual GeForce GTS 450s
I also have SLI for the 2 cards (are there very expensive SLI bridges that can boost my performance?)
16GBs of Ram (4x8gb)
Asus Rampage IV Extreme Motherboard
Intel i7 CPU 3.6GHz
And 2 Shitty Hard Drives (1 around 350gb and 2nd around 120gb)
I have about a 900Watt powersupply that handles crap fine,

The Hard drives are both old and slow, im not sure if they are bringing my performance down

So one day, i decided to do some overclocking, i started up the BIOS and i overclocked shit to the max, but then i clicked save and exit and my PC was basicly like this:

I push power button: PC turns on for 20 secs, then turns off
i wait about 4 secs and PC starts again,
i wait another 15-20 secs and PC turns off again,
i wait and nothing happens, The if i push power button again it all repeats,

Basicly after Overclocking my PC doesn't Start,
My problem isn't the PC not starting because i can fix that with a awesome reset button on my motherboard,

What i want is to be able to do Overclocking without having my PC restart itself and not manage to stay on for half a minute

NOTE: I reset my motherboard and went into BIOS again, and i had everything on default which works fine, and then i set a few things higher, nothing much, just things that would add a very small amount to my FPS, but still the PC decides not to work!

NOTE: I still had this problem back when i had a single graphics card and about 4gbs of ram,

You didn't say what i7, so:

Take a look here:

Core i7 Overclocking Guide For Beginners

If that doesnt' satisfy you, here are 28,500 links on overclocking various i7 processors:

- Google Search

yea sorry i messed up with the 4x8gb, its 4x4, also i tried making small tweaks, even they stopped pc from booting, also my motherboard has black and red slots for ram, it goes: (Red) (Black) (Red) (Black) (Processor) (Black) (Red) (Black) (Red),
For some reason i can only put Ram in the Red slots, if i put it in the black i dont know what happens but it doesn't notice the ram (maybe that memory quad channel thing you mentioned?)

First Rule of OCing: Make sure you have the heart to fix it if it blows up.
Second Rule: Don't crank it up to the max. (Example: When you're driving a car, do you just start the engine and go automatically to gear 5? Or do you go gear 1, 2, 3, 4 and THEN 5?)

Mintos45 said:

First Rule of OCing: Make sure you have the heart to fix it if it blows up.
Second Rule: Don't crank it up to the max. (Example: When you're driving a car, do you just start the engine and go automatically to gear 5? Or do you go gear 1, 2, 3, 4 and THEN 5?)

Or if your american you have no gears at all :)

But dude seriously....... Take the advice read into what your doing before you do I posted a good starter OC software and tutorial in one of my posts find it start there.

It may help when you get up and running.

Also monitor your system when your OC

Just to throw in my two pennies aswell.

You're the absolute worst type of system owner. You throw caution to the wind like it's confetti and display all the eloquence of a caveman smashing a rock against another rock to make one of them work better.


The simple fact that you came here posting that you "overclocked shit to the max" demonstrates that you should never have been allowed to buy these parts in the first place, let alone assemble them into a working machine and definitely not to enter advanced and potentially dangerous configuration options.
And yes, I have an intense dislike for the language you use in your post. I swear like a mother****er in real life but online I like to pretend that I have some decorum.


To reiterate what Tanya has stated, your graphics card is considered low-end and the fact that you have two running in SLI makes no difference; SLI and Crossfire are vastly overrated unless you have cards which make them worthwhile, and even then a decent single or dual GPU card will still blow them out of the water, especially if overclocked.

Second, you're not overclocking the CPU to try and make games run smoother, are you? It is the GPU which handles the majority of the grunt work when playing games (kind of makes sense now, doesn't it? Graphics card?) and so tweaking this can drastically improve performance.
For example my 6870 will actually stutter a little when playing Saints Row The Third at its stock settings; 900MHz core clock and 1050 on the memory. Change just the core clock to 930 and this stuttering disappears completely. A tiny change can have a profound impact but again, only if you have the hardware to support it.


There have been some excellent links provided for you here, even the sarcastic "25,000 Google results" link which honestly, is what you should have done yourself in the first place. Overclocking is a very risky game and you are to be perfectly honestly incredibly lucky that you didn't simply burn out your processor that first time. My advice to you, ease into this slowly; treat overclocking the way you'd treat a virgin (yes I just made that analogy). Don't just slam into the poor girl and start recklessly hammering away without reason or method. Take it slow, be gentle with her, and she will absolutely give you a hassle-free, awesome time.