hi all,
just built my 1st rig an trying to learn to overclock.i have a gigibyte GA-M68M-S2P motherboard,2x1GB of ballistix RAM,unknown 700W power supply.i have no graphics or other cards as i'm saving the money for my amd965 build in progress.2 weeks ago i got the 630 from 2.8 to 3.0(just over),i left it there as i only have stock cooler,all was fine an i would pass P.O.S.T with no worries temp were at 37 to 39 celcius maximum,i was using stock voltage of 1.310 in v-core,FSB at 215mhz.however yesterday i started to get the message;WARNING-STARTING IN SAFE MODE-PLEASE RESTORE CPU SPEED SETTINGS.why is this?it was fine for the 2 weeks,yesterday was hot an muggy an cpu temps did reach 41 C aat one point but iknow its not that.have i ruined my chip?i've gone through clearing CMOS,i am running fine at 2.9 GHZ,but want to go higher.
just to help the RAM is ddr2 800mhz-and am using BIOS version F1.
thanks for reading.any help appreciated.