Can overclocking hose the registry?

[grego]

I've been overclocking my 3200+ venice today. When I got it to 2.4ghz it loaded half into windows and crapped out. So, I upped the voltages a little and tried again. It booted fully. I restarted and ran memtest for 2 hours. Zero errors were generated. Yet, when I restart my pc, it couldn't find (or corrupt) c:\windows\system32\config\system. So I went on microsofts page and did some registry editing through recovery console and I'm booted back in, though I got a few wierd errors along the way. Half my files are gone, but half are there, and I've only had this PC up for a about a week, so no real biggie.

But was it my (overclocking) actions that caused this? Or just a general system error?

 

[Elbatrop1]

Well, kinda yes.

When you booted halfway into Windows, and it had problems, some Windows files probably got corrupted.

Overclocking itself cant corrupt Windows files, its just when the computer restarts/shuts down while Windows is doing something...

 

[grego]

Gotcha, that makes sense. I'm grabbing what I can and doing a fresh install... cuz its not pretty anymore . Only bad thing is, my overclocking log spreadsheet is gone . Oh well.

 

[timmer]

well that sucks but it happens to the best of us just try it again