Help! in need of a geek!

i really need a bod here lol ive brought my pc about a year ago from Overclockers.co.uk which has the overclocked preinstalled so evertime i start up from the hard disk the overclocked should be there and now everytime i start upits not overclocked any more its back to its normal clocking speed any suggestions? i did have an error but was so fast didnt manage to read itbe4 that it did cause random lockups

i really need a bod here lol ive brought my pc about a year ago from Overclockers.co.uk which has the overclocked preinstalled so evertime i start up from the hard disk the overclocked should be there and now everytime i start upits not overclocked any more its back to its normal clocking speed any suggestions? i did have an error but was so fast didnt manage to read itbe4 that it did cause random lockups

Whiteknight19

The error that you got.. did it show up on the boot-up screens (before windows loaded), or did it show IN windows?

yea be4 windows even loaded

i really need a bod here lol ive brought my pc about a year ago from Overclockers.co.uk which has the overclocked preinstalled so evertime i start up from the hard disk the overclocked should be there and now everytime i start upits not overclocked any more its back to its normal clocking speed any suggestions? i did have an error but was so fast didnt manage to read itbe4 that it did cause random lockups

Whiteknight19

yea be4 windows even loaded

Whiteknight19

The overclock settings that the system-builders undoubtedly saved in the BIOS may have failed for some reason. Watch the screen during the boot-up to see if an option to boot into "setup" or "bios" comes up at some point (well before windows loads). Usually you just have to press 1 button at the right point during boot-up to get into the BIOS. Sometimes is the 'Del' key, sometimes it's one of the F# keys (F5, F8, etc..).

Once you get into the Bios (setup), there should be a way to restore the settings they had, or find some that will work if theirs failed for a reason. Do you know your motherboard make and model?

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yea be4 windows even loaded

hartsickdiscipl

The overclock settings that the system-builders undoubtedly saved in the BIOS may have failed for some reason. Watch the screen during the boot-up to see if an option to boot into "setup" or "bios" comes up at some point (well before windows loads). Usually you just have to press 1 button at the right point during boot-up to get into the BIOS. Sometimes is the 'Del' key, sometimes it's one of the F# keys (F5, F8, etc..).

Once you get into the Bios (setup), there should be a way to restore the settings they had, or find some that will work if theirs failed for a reason. Do you know your motherboard make and model?

i really need a bod here lol ive brought my pc about a year ago from Overclockers.co.uk which has the overclocked preinstalled so evertime i start up from the hard disk the overclocked should be there and now everytime i start upits not overclocked any more its back to its normal clocking speed any suggestions? i did have an error but was so fast didnt manage to read itbe4 that it did cause random lockups

Whiteknight19

Overclocking is still done through the BIOS primarily, as far as I know. It loads before your OS, before any of yours disks are even accessed. so there's where to look. It sounds strange that you'd experience problems if it has actually somehow reverted to factory settings. Unless there's something wrong with the CPU. Still, it shouldn't just "revert" unless the battery on the motherboard is empty.

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i really need a bod here lol ive brought my pc about a year ago from Overclockers.co.uk which has the overclocked preinstalled so evertime i start up from the hard disk the overclocked should be there and now everytime i start upits not overclocked any more its back to its normal clocking speed any suggestions? i did have an error but was so fast didnt manage to read itbe4 that it did cause random lockups

Overclocking is still done through the BIOS primarily, as far as I know. It loads before your OS, before any of yours disks are even accessed. so there's where to look. It sounds strange that you'd experience problems if it has actually somehow reverted to factory settings. Unless there's something wrong with the CPU. Still, it shouldn't just "revert" unless the battery on the motherboard is empty.

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i really need a bod here lol ive brought my pc about a year ago from Overclockers.co.uk which has the overclocked preinstalled so evertime i start up from the hard disk the overclocked should be there and now everytime i start upits not overclocked any more its back to its normal clocking speed any suggestions? i did have an error but was so fast didnt manage to read itbe4 that it did cause random lockups

C2C_Moltar

Overclocking is still done through the BIOS primarily, as far as I know. It loads before your OS, before any of yours disks are even accessed. so there's where to look. It sounds strange that you'd experience problems if it has actually somehow reverted to factory settings. Unless there's something wrong with the CPU. Still, it shouldn't just "revert" unless the battery on the motherboard is empty.

That makes sense. (I haven't overclocked a CPU in almost 10 years as I see little reason to with the clock frequencies of CPUs these days.)

But why would Windows lock up if the settings have reverted and the CPU wasn't damaged (not saying it couldn't for other reasons)?