OCing and messing up my registry?

[sackynut]

Hi all! Well I have a bit of a question and possibly a problem.
Lets see:

Well my PSU was failing on me, so I went out and bought a brand new one. a 650watt. I usually know what I am doing, and once I hooked up the PSU i decided "hey! why dont I flip the 'stupid' switch on and overclock like a madman now that I have a new better PSU".

so I started OCing. it didnt really pass boot that much , but once (with my HT at 1200mhz) I passed boot. I logged in and i got a error message that said something like "one or more of the files contaning the registry is deleted or corrupted" and within about 2 seconds my computer rebooted itself and I decided to go back down to stock settings. My computer SEEMS to bee fine since, and I havent received that error since either.

But im wondering, why/how does OCing mess up the registry?



and

since I have not gotten that message anymore does it mean my registry is back to normal?

I really do not want to reformat again...

 

[dmroeder]

Your registry might have never been messed up. OC'ing can cause all kinds of strange stuff to happen. If it's not giving your trouble now, don't worry about it.

 

[bugme1]

now i dont know much about this, but my guess is it read the registry too fast and skipped a couple lines. but thats just a hunch.