3rd time in 2 days that i've gotten the BSOD

Dragunfli · 01-17-2008, 09:42 PM

alright, i'm not even sure where to begin so i'm pretty sure i'll just throw the whole situation out there. I am part of an animation team, therefore i am using 3dsmax quite often. Sometimes i am working with scenes that dont quite render so quick. So i overclock, but just a little....just enough to give it that last edge to go a little faster. i dont get it tho, my limit for overclocking on a 2.4ghz AMD Athlon 64-bit Dual Core was 263EXTCLK, i only bumped it up from 216 to 222. I set it to the 222 and the screen went black a few seconds later so i thought to myself....."uh oh". Well everything came back up and it was fine so i didnt pay any attention to it, i uninstalled the Abit uGuru program which allows my computer to, well...easily overclock. Since i have the Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X Motherboard which was promoted as a motherboard "Built to Overclock" i didnt really have a fear of it then. I mean the temperature usually goes up from 96 degrees F to 105 degrees F when raising from 210 to 220 and my high limit was 168 degrees if i do remember correctly.

The next time I got the BSOD i was just sitting at my comp playing guitar reading some guitar tabs when all of the sudden i heard my modem cut off (i have dial up, they dont offer dsl where i live unfortunately) so i right clicked on the connection icon to see what was up but nothing came up, plus my mouse froze and then came the black screen then the blue screen and it restarted. Thats when i started to speculate that i had really F'd up my comp.

And the last time i was recieving an Audio file my friend had made (he's a techno/electronica artist). But before it finished my windows media player which was running was locked up and would't budge at all. didnt even do the whole "Not Responding" deal. Same thing, locked down black screen blue screen restart. So i decided to see what anyone else's opinion was.

Here are my System Specs:
AMD Athlon Dual Core 64-bit 4600+ 2.4ghz CPU
Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X Motherboard
Dual Seagate 250gb HDD's set up on a RAID configuration
X1950 XTX ATI Radeon Video Card
2 Gigs of Corsair Dominator DDR2 RAM
Sony DVD Burner

Sorry to make it such a long post. Can anyone at all help me figure out what is wrong with my computer?

**bigfellla** · 01-18-2008, 11:01 AM

What is the make and model of your Power supply unit?

Dragunfli · 01-18-2008, 11:39 AM

not sure on the make but it's a 450 watt

**bigfellla** · 01-18-2008, 12:01 PM

Please download Speed Fan from my sig and post the voltages for me.

I believe that your PSU is underpowered, causing voltage movement and BSOD's.

**speedster123** · 01-21-2008, 03:40 PM

take the side off and post back the info on the side of the power supply, while your in there, make sure its blown clean.

01-17-2008, 09:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dragunfli Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Townville, South Carolina Posts: 11 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit	3rd time in 2 days that i've gotten the BSOD alright, i'm not even sure where to begin so i'm pretty sure i'll just throw the whole situation out there. I am part of an animation team, therefore i am using 3dsmax quite often. Sometimes i am working with scenes that dont quite render so quick. So i overclock, but just a little....just enough to give it that last edge to go a little faster. i dont get it tho, my limit for overclocking on a 2.4ghz AMD Athlon 64-bit Dual Core was 263EXTCLK, i only bumped it up from 216 to 222. I set it to the 222 and the screen went black a few seconds later so i thought to myself....."uh oh". Well everything came back up and it was fine so i didnt pay any attention to it, i uninstalled the Abit uGuru program which allows my computer to, well...easily overclock. Since i have the Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X Motherboard which was promoted as a motherboard "Built to Overclock" i didnt really have a fear of it then. I mean the temperature usually goes up from 96 degrees F to 105 degrees F when raising from 210 to 220 and my high limit was 168 degrees if i do remember correctly. The next time I got the BSOD i was just sitting at my comp playing guitar reading some guitar tabs when all of the sudden i heard my modem cut off (i have dial up, they dont offer dsl where i live unfortunately) so i right clicked on the connection icon to see what was up but nothing came up, plus my mouse froze and then came the black screen then the blue screen and it restarted. Thats when i started to speculate that i had really F'd up my comp. And the last time i was recieving an Audio file my friend had made (he's a techno/electronica artist). But before it finished my windows media player which was running was locked up and would't budge at all. didnt even do the whole "Not Responding" deal. Same thing, locked down black screen blue screen restart. So i decided to see what anyone else's opinion was. Here are my System Specs: AMD Athlon Dual Core 64-bit 4600+ 2.4ghz CPU Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X Motherboard Dual Seagate 250gb HDD's set up on a RAID configuration X1950 XTX ATI Radeon Video Card 2 Gigs of Corsair Dominator DDR2 RAM Sony DVD Burner Sorry to make it such a long post. Can anyone at all help me figure out what is wrong with my computer? Last edited by Dragunfli : 01-17-2008 at 09:45 PM.

01-18-2008, 11:01 AM	#2 (permalink)
bigfellla Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 2,965 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional SP2, Mac OSX Leopard My System	Re: 3rd time in 2 days that i've gotten the BSOD What is the make and model of your Power supply unit? __________________ PC Wizard-VGA 2008 Charts-Power Supply Info-Multi/Single Rail PSU?-Speedfan-Laptop nVidia Drivers

01-18-2008, 11:39 AM	#3 (permalink)
Dragunfli Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Townville, South Carolina Posts: 11 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit	Re: 3rd time in 2 days that i've gotten the BSOD not sure on the make but it's a 450 watt

01-18-2008, 12:01 PM	#4 (permalink)
bigfellla Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 2,965 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional SP2, Mac OSX Leopard My System	Re: 3rd time in 2 days that i've gotten the BSOD Please download Speed Fan from my sig and post the voltages for me. I believe that your PSU is underpowered, causing voltage movement and BSOD's. __________________ PC Wizard-VGA 2008 Charts-Power Supply Info-Multi/Single Rail PSU?-Speedfan-Laptop nVidia Drivers

01-21-2008, 03:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
speedster123 Mentor Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: United States-New York Posts: 3,904 OS: xp pro My System	Re: 3rd time in 2 days that i've gotten the BSOD take the side off and post back the info on the side of the power supply, while your in there, make sure its blown clean. __________________ Infection Detection and Removal Thermal Grease Instructions Bench Test