fried something in my PC

[Psycho]

soo.. yeah I tried to overclock my pc a bit. My friend did it with 0.4 so I tought I could try it too.

at first I clocked it up 0.2 went fine, minor change in PC temperature, and I went slowly upwards to see if I could make it to 0.4
I did not.

at 3.5 the temperature was 40 something celcius and the screen turned black on restart.
I quickly shut it down and let it cool off for a while (and opening some windows and stuff) and came back later and turned the clocking back down.

now windows worked again but it was acting weird and msn wouldnt start.
I restarted it again and before I could log in there popped up a couple of windows saying that windows had to restore some files and that the restoring was succesfull. MSN still din't work tho and windows was kind of slow.

So after about 5 minutes a blue screen came up out of nowhere and lasted for about 3 seconds so I could only read the top of it saying windows had noticed a mistake or something, cant really remember, after it was gone the PC immediatly turned itself off.

now I tried to start it again, and its starting up fine but just before windows loads it sais
"Windows couldn't start because the following is missing or corrupt
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please reinstall a copy of this file"

I dont know how I am going to install that file or if there is a simpler way to do this.

any ideas?

[a-4-year-old]

overheated processor? overclock is for watercooled  pcs and it is still not relevant changes. also tell your m8 as soon as he plays a graphic intense game his comp will fry.

[Dascoo]

Sucks for you.

[Sethamundo]

Sucks for you.

  Spam much?

Just do a search for the file, I'm sure you can find it somewhere.  As for the overclocking, as a-4-year-old said, that will fry your computer if you don't have the proper cooling if you aren't careful.

[Senik]

overheated processor? overclock is for watercooled  pcs and it is still not relevant changes. also tell your m8 as soon as he plays a graphic intense game his comp will fry.

You don't need watercooling to be able to overclock, you just have to have sufficient cooling and know what you're doing. On my old overclocking rig I had an Opteron 170 up from 2ghz to 2.6 ghz with 4 120mm fans in my case but no watercooling.

As for your problem, I can't say I know. Overclocking shouldn't corrupt any files unless you overclock it so far that it starts damaging other hardware (i.e. your HD), but if that were the case I don't think it would even start. Maybe you should take it to a shop or reformat.

[a-4-year-old]

overheated processor? overclock is for watercooled  pcs and it is still not relevant changes. also tell your m8 as soon as he plays a graphic intense game his comp will fry.

You don't need watercooling to be able to overclock, you just have to have sufficient cooling and know what you're doing. On my old overclocking rig I had an Opteron 170 up from 2ghz to 2.6 ghz with 4 120mm fans in my case but no watercooling.

I would not recommend overclocking exept when you are thinking about getting a new computer but you are too cheap, with overclocking, it isn't about how much you can get it up, its how high do you dare take the internal temperature, I could take my 3.2 to 4.2 with bios and a fire extinguisher but that wouldn't be smart.

I have heard of people who had watercooled and they used antifreeze instead of water in the tubing, but that could fuck up the tubes and then you have antifreeze over your dual core.

[Slashnoob]

i once tried to overclock my ATI Radeon 9800 pro (was entirely new at the time), ended up with an exploded power supplier.

[ds dude]

i once tried to overclock my ATI Radeon 9800 pro (was entirely new at the time), ended up with an exploded power supplier.

Can that really happen? That must be shocking to see a computer blow up like that.

[bja888]

i once tried to overclock my ATI Radeon 9800 pro (was entirely new at the time), ended up with an exploded power supplier.

Can that really happen? That must be shocking to see a computer blow up like that.

Too many people buy cheap power supplys. Bacause the ones that work the best are about $150

[Slashnoob]

yep. had a 'stock' power supplier which was pretty lousy.

the whole thing happened 'cause i was supposed to halt the program at the certain point when the overclocking gets to the maximum, or a limit that i'd set it to.
i thought that the program sets the limit itself, or atleast can stop itself once it's overclocked "enough" or w\e.

anywho, i was lying in my bed thinking all "damn not only do i have the best gfx card availble, i'm gonna overclock it to have pwnage performance!" .. all of a sudden i hear a boom and my computer starts smoking.. imagine my horrid

[Liber Lupus]

There's a chance when a power supply goes it will take the whole box with it. So you still had some luck.

[Psycho]

I dont think I screwed up any hardware. Im gonna reformat it in the morning.

[Kyklis]

Sounds very similar to when my hard drive broke. Reformat it like you are saying, but if you continue to get blue screens and slow speed, you're probably gonna have to replace to hard drive.

After getting it checked out, of course.