Had the bright idea to try overclocking. I definitely screwed up

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So like usual, I'm an inexperienced essentially first time overclocker. I have on a few occasions before experimented with slightly overclocking my cpu and what not. This time I had a hankering to try again though the bios. It obviously ended terribly. I researched some ranges for my cpu and stayed in those limits for "safety". Long story short, my pc now boots but windows fails everytime. It says there is an error and it never automatically repairs it. I have restarted it countless times, reverted bios back to default settings, tried flashing a new version if bios, it all ends up the same way. I'm clueless on what to do next. I'm freaking out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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"... my pc now boots but windows fails everytime. It says there is an error and it never automatically repairs it. I have restarted it countless times, reverted bios back to default settings,..."

Download one of the USB bootable memory tests. Let it run overnight. If no errors then your HW is working correctly. I'm assuming that after you reset the MB to defaults your system is working fine and we are just repairing a broken copy of windows. If the memory test cannot run overnight, then please let us know. Do not try to repair windows until you know your PC hardware is good.

Build a win10 install USB boot disk using Window 10 Media Creation tool. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/

Boot off the win10...
"... my pc now boots but windows fails everytime. It says there is an error and it never automatically repairs it. I have restarted it countless times, reverted bios back to default settings,..."

Download one of the USB bootable memory tests. Let it run overnight. If no errors then your HW is working correctly. I'm assuming that after you reset the MB to defaults your system is working fine and we are just repairing a broken copy of windows. If the memory test cannot run overnight, then please let us know. Do not try to repair windows until you know your PC hardware is good.

Build a win10 install USB boot disk using Window 10 Media Creation tool. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/

Boot off the win10 install and ask it to repair windows (RESET) keeping your data. Sometimes this works, sometimes not. Post what happens.

 
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