A month ago, I built a new system (Asus P5B Deluxe, C2D e6600, 2 GB Crucial DDR2-5300 10th Anniversary memsticks). I assembled it and turned it on, and everything worked great. Three weeks of reading things on overclocking give me enough courage to go ahead and overclock my system. I get great, detailed advice from a fellow ATech-er on the settings to overclock to 3.6 GHz at DDR2-1000. I go into BIOS, make the changes, boot up and I will be damned, everything is running perfectly. Idle temps at 3.6 GHz is at 50 C, life is perfect! Too perfect.
Being the idiot that I am, I had the urge to now find out what Asus's Ai Gear does. I load up Ai Utlities and click on the Ai Gear icon. Windows XP freezes! Ok, no problem, I will restart and things will be ok, right? Nope, the system won't even get to POST! No video connection either. I am screwed! :shocked:
Fortunately, I remembered :light: reading about someone recommending reseting the CMOS, so I figured I would do that. Well, being the idiot that I am, I proceed to disassemble the entire system oblivious to the fact that all I had to do was remove the video card to access the batter, remove it, reset the jumper, replace the battery, video card and the BIOS would have been reset. I get to the same point after rebuilding the system and thankfully I get to POST, and am able to boot in to Windows XP at stock settings (memstick's voltages changed to 2.25v per requirements).
The system is stable and so the next day I decide to try overclocking again. The system boots, but automatically resets at the initial Windows XP screen, no matter what I do. I have no idea what to do now. Any suggestions or comments?
Here's the settings I was given for overclocking, which worked before the fatal "click":
FSB: 400
Memory: DDR2-1000
CPU VCore: 1.45v
FSB Termination: 1.30c
Memory: 2.30v
NB: 1.45v
SB: 1.60v
ICH: Auto
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
Memory timings: 5-4-4-8-4-42-10-10-10-10 (as it appears from top to bottom in the Asus' latest 804 BIOS)
Static Read Control: Disabled
Memory Remap: Disabled
Multiplier left at the locked 9x for a 3.6 GHz speed.
Life at 3.6 GHz was so great.... :brokenheart:
Being the idiot that I am, I had the urge to now find out what Asus's Ai Gear does. I load up Ai Utlities and click on the Ai Gear icon. Windows XP freezes! Ok, no problem, I will restart and things will be ok, right? Nope, the system won't even get to POST! No video connection either. I am screwed! :shocked:
Fortunately, I remembered :light: reading about someone recommending reseting the CMOS, so I figured I would do that. Well, being the idiot that I am, I proceed to disassemble the entire system oblivious to the fact that all I had to do was remove the video card to access the batter, remove it, reset the jumper, replace the battery, video card and the BIOS would have been reset. I get to the same point after rebuilding the system and thankfully I get to POST, and am able to boot in to Windows XP at stock settings (memstick's voltages changed to 2.25v per requirements).
The system is stable and so the next day I decide to try overclocking again. The system boots, but automatically resets at the initial Windows XP screen, no matter what I do. I have no idea what to do now. Any suggestions or comments?
Here's the settings I was given for overclocking, which worked before the fatal "click":
FSB: 400
Memory: DDR2-1000
CPU VCore: 1.45v
FSB Termination: 1.30c
Memory: 2.30v
NB: 1.45v
SB: 1.60v
ICH: Auto
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
Memory timings: 5-4-4-8-4-42-10-10-10-10 (as it appears from top to bottom in the Asus' latest 804 BIOS)
Static Read Control: Disabled
Memory Remap: Disabled
Multiplier left at the locked 9x for a 3.6 GHz speed.
Life at 3.6 GHz was so great....
:brokenheart:
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