ohGrFreak
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Wierd thing happened, first of all, I spelled weird wrong, LOL.
Anyways, a month or so ago, I repaired XP Home on this PC, and it ran silky smooth with no crashes or no progs not responding and freezing. It stays on for a couple days straight and then gets shut down properly every few days overnight.
The comp was doing fine today, no problem, until just now, it turned itself off, well, the screen went blank and it acted like the plug was pulled from the socket, but the leds on the front of the case stayed on, needless to say, it started to reboot itself automatically and upon reaching the ASUS mobo screen, it did the same thing. Now this time upon reboot, a new screen I have never seen appeared, the logo was American (something), having a big red "A" logo behind the words. This screen was telling me that my overclocking had failed and it gave me options to go to setup or to continue I think.
So I choose setup, and since I have never overclocked this machine through setup/bios whatever and I haven't overclocked this comp at all for over 4 months, I decided to revert to defaults because everything is basically greek to me in setup. The comp seems to be running fine although the initial XP loading time was increased 20 seconds or so.
I try to keep the comp free from spyware, adware, virus', and keep the registry clean on a weekly basis.
So, my question is what could have happened to cause this and for me to recieve the overclocking error without even overclocking in the first place?
Anyways, a month or so ago, I repaired XP Home on this PC, and it ran silky smooth with no crashes or no progs not responding and freezing. It stays on for a couple days straight and then gets shut down properly every few days overnight.
The comp was doing fine today, no problem, until just now, it turned itself off, well, the screen went blank and it acted like the plug was pulled from the socket, but the leds on the front of the case stayed on, needless to say, it started to reboot itself automatically and upon reaching the ASUS mobo screen, it did the same thing. Now this time upon reboot, a new screen I have never seen appeared, the logo was American (something), having a big red "A" logo behind the words. This screen was telling me that my overclocking had failed and it gave me options to go to setup or to continue I think.
So I choose setup, and since I have never overclocked this machine through setup/bios whatever and I haven't overclocked this comp at all for over 4 months, I decided to revert to defaults because everything is basically greek to me in setup. The comp seems to be running fine although the initial XP loading time was increased 20 seconds or so.
I try to keep the comp free from spyware, adware, virus', and keep the registry clean on a weekly basis.
So, my question is what could have happened to cause this and for me to recieve the overclocking error without even overclocking in the first place?