i'v read in a few forum's they are people having issues with overclocking a 64bit vista.

looks like i wasn't alone.

i would like to know if there is anyone here has successfully overclocked on a 64bit vista without any boot issues.

No problem here.
E6600@3.00Ghz
RAM at DDR2 1000Mhz (4 x 1GB) 5-5-5-15

What's your problem exactly ?

my problem is that during the windows boot screen, when it finishes booting, there is a flash bsod then it reboots. even on stock settings. i think i just need to reformat.

Could be bad drivers and or bad installation. Safe mode BSODs as well ?

safe mode works perfectly though..

it was booting ok until i changed the values in the bios..

the only driver i installed is the vga and raid.

What values did you change exactly ? Tried using the BIOS deafults ? x64 is quite notorious for video driver hangs. Might want to do a clean uninstall and install of the drivers. Mobo drivers first (if any) before the vga ones.

even with the default settings it still has booting issues. i didn't install any mobo driver. only the vga driver. but when i ran 3dmark and some gaming, it never hangs.

Er, hardware list please. And you should really install those mobo drivers at the very least (Intel inf for Intel chipsets and forceware drvers for Nforce mobos). So you can boot at times ?

I am also having boot issues to with x64. My monitor will go into sleep mode and my DVD drive will endlessly reads as soon as it enters Vista. However at certain times, I goes with issue. I am suspecting old BIOS version, might upgrade to F11 bios later to see how it goes. Anyway I am stock settings for now.

This post has been edited by mikelee: Feb 4 2008, 12:25 AM

In your case Mike, I believe it's the BIOS for your Gigabyte P35 board (remember reading some issues with 4GB and older BIOS releases around these forums). Update and share with us your results yah.

Mainboard : Gigabyte P35-DS3R
Chipset : Intel P31/P35
Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2400 MHz
Physical Memory : 4096 MB (2 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )
Video Card : Nvidia Corp NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Hard Disk : GRAID (1000 GB)
Operating System : Windows (tm) Vista Ultimate Professional 6.00.6000
DirectX : Version 10.00

yes i can boot sometimes.

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Added on February 4, 2008, 2:09 aminstalled chipset drivers, problem still persists...

This post has been edited by ezinger: Feb 4 2008, 02:09 AM

Sure no problem. Will do it later. Upgrading BIOS in x64 environment is a hassel.

Did u manage to get the error message when the BSOD came out?

This post has been edited by mikelee: Feb 4 2008, 04:32 PM

the BSOD is too fast i cant read anything. but when i try to fix the startup by using the dvd boot, i manage to go thru the error details and saw the phrase "bad driver"

Bad raid problems or the display drivers. Since both mike and you are using the DS3, best to update to the latest BIOS. If you google around, there are some horror stories regarding the Rev 1.0 of the board.

its not raid and not vga. i just did a startup repair with system restore removing the faulty driver. have no idea which driver tho..

everything seems much more stable now and managed to get higher clock with low vcore, considering the amount of vdroop DS3 has..

bro Eoma,post ur result here..any benchmark share with us pls..

try to boot up with 2gb ram and see how it goes?

I'll dig up some old scrrenshots and post them up later. Although truth be told, this is more of a troubleshooting thread for ezinger actually.

My latest OC on x64:


The PC running into sleep mode as I noted earlier seems to went away. BIOS still at version F10. It seems the problem lies on the power option setting on Vista. Earlier I have set to Balance and now switch to Performance instead.

@ezinger, are you still having boot problems after OC? I am not having any at my side.

This post has been edited by mikelee: Feb 6 2008, 02:14 AM

its much more stable now. 99% boot free error. it seems that i have a bad driver and i have no idea which driver