Recent content by bartdood

You should NEVER run a CPU without a heatsink and fan on it, even with no fan it will overheat in a matter of 1-2 minutes. Sounds like your CPU is dead.

I think I found it, its on page 3-17 in the user manual, it looks like you can actually set the LDT bus frequency, I can't see any reference to a multiplier, but at least it gives me something to try. Should I try dropping the LDT frequency from 1Ghz to something lower? Might this give me more...

I have version 1.1 of the board, I checked this as soon as I got the board as I heard the V1.0 could not be locked, thanks.

Thanks for the reply, I did some more digging and found more info on the HT ratio online, however I don't remember seeing any option in my Abit BIOS to change the ratio between the "FSB" (200Mhz) and the Hypertransport speed. I am looking through the user manual PDF right now and the only...

Hi folks, new to the forum, I just bought an Abit KV8 Pro mobo, AMD 64bit 3000+ CPU and some KingMax PC4000 ram (512mb stick). I have been trying and trying to overclock my system (CPU) and its hopeless, I updated the BIOS to the latest one with the AGP and PCI locks, I tried swapping out the...