Can OCing cause this?

[Arm_Pit3]

My firend OCed his CPU and it correputed varois files on his harddrive, both windowws and linux startup files, he had to reinsatll windows completly.

As far as I know just the fact of "OCing" could not do it, but the CPU instability could possibly cause it to write badly to the harddrive, or more of what I was htiking, was since he has a fairly crappy PSU, was that the PSu got a little more instable with the voltages and possibly made alot mroe electronic noise it could have caused the HD corruption(Msotly getting at the noise)

Is what I'm saying still possible with todays tech and parts? Or am I thinking to oldschool.

 

[Burgerbob]

I think it was probably PSU- related. You are most likely right.

 

[dragon2309]

Out of the two i would lean towards the PSU being detremental to the PC's health, but im not going to select it as my choice because i dont believe his issues where hardware related, i think it was coincidence.

 

[Motoxrdude]

Oc actually can cause files to go corrupt. It has happened to me a few times.

 

[Arm_Pit3]

Out of the two i would lean towards the PSU being detremental to the PC's health, but im not going to select it as my choice because i dont believe his issues where hardware related, i think it was coincidence.

whatd o you think caused it then? There were no viruses, and ahrddrive isn't even a year old. sata.

 

[fade2green514]

i've found that on my old 3400+ at least when i increased hypertransport too much that this same situation would occur.
maybe hypertransport is clocked too high. for socket 754 and 940 it shouldnt go above 800mhz and 939 and AM2 it should go above 1000mhz.

 

[Clutch]

754 and 940 it shouldnt go above 800mhz

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

Look at that, Socket 940 processors with a 1000MHz HTT.

 

[fade2green514]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

Look at that, Socket 940 processors with a 1000MHz HTT.

lol w/e my friend FX-53 for socket 940 has a hypertransport of 800mhz. you know what i meant, he probably doesnt have a socket 940 proc anyways.

 

[diduknowthat]

yeah that happened to me, computer refused to boot into windows, had to reinstall. I was pretty sure it was my cpu as my psu is decent.