Question about overclocking problems after upgrade

[wpjssp]

I have a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 motherboard, a 6420 core 2 Duo CPU, an ocz high performance ddr2 2 gig dual channel kit, and two maxtor 500 gig 16mb cache sata hard drives. For 6-7 months I have had the motherboard, CPU, memory, and one HDD overclocked on windows XP 32bit to 3.1 ghz from 2.13 stock. I then decided to set up a raid drive and got the second hard drive, and I installed a fresh windows Vista Buisness 64 bit OS. After I installed these the overclock had automatically been reduced to stock. I went into the bios and tried to reset it to what it was but it just tries to boot once, fails, then reverts to stock. I have tried my original 387mhz, 390mhz, 333mhz, 320mhz, 300mhz, and the last one was so close to stock that I can't even remember. stock is 267mhz. I also tried easytune5 for the hell of it but that didnt work either. I also was adjusting voltages and such so i dont think that was the issue. I am wondering what change affected this or how to re-overclock because it just reverts to the stock. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[cfvh600]

Adding the second drive and RAID shouldn't have had any effect on your overclock.Perhaps some of your hardware has just had enough.

 

[wpjssp]

I did this yesterday and the overclock worked all day until I started to upgrade, how likely is it that the hardware died during the day, or is the change in hardware and software extra stress. I worked all day perfectly then this morning I checked and it was reverted I'm guessing with the vista install because that was what it did overnight.

If I run prime95 with stock settings will that tell me if any hardware is bad.

 

[cfvh600]

What PSU do you have?Perhaps adding the second hard drive is stressing your PSU too much.It's just a guess.

 

[wpjssp]

truepower trio 650watts

 

[cfvh600]

Anyone else?

 

[wpjssp]

Thanks for your help, I just wanted to add that the computer works perfectly at stock settings so I don't think the hardware is bad.

 

[wpjssp]

Anyone else have any suggestions, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[cfvh600]

Have you looked at the guide to overclocking the c2d cpu's? Perhaps something in there might help.

 

[wpjssp]

I used that or one similar to originally overclock, I will go recheck for any ideas thanks.

 

[wpjssp]

I think I have It working now, either the memory or the pci-e settings were wrong. I dont know how those got changed because after i had it working i didnt mess with the bios anymore. Thanks for your help.