About an AXIA

SMUAlien

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Jun 12, 2001
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I don't know if any of ya'll recall but I posted yesterday about if I should or should not get an AXIA chip. Well here's the link: Yesterday's post In any event, I went ahead and purchased this chip. It's a Week 15, AXIA with a Y, 1Ghz flavor. I pencil tricked this chip before I popped it in my computer last night just like I had penciled many chips before it. I set the jumper on my mobo for 133fsb and it booted just fine at 133 * 7.5 = 1000. Ok so that's all well and good, so I decided to overclock. This chip would not overclock with one exception, I was able to get it to run at 1466. No other multiplier would work. 1466 seems alittle agressive to me, I was really shooting for 1400, but I couldn't get any other multiplier to work. I tweaked the voltages, 1466 was fine and stable, ran in 2k just fine, booted, did some benchmarks. I felt the chip was running too hot (63C) so I wanted to scale back alittle. I couldn't.

I decided to take the chip out, and try to repencil it because it was possible that I didn't do a good job the first time. With my trusty magnified glass I penciled it again. Popped the chip back in and had exactly the same problem as previous. So I decided to run at 100 fsb just to see if I had access to the other multipliers. Lo and behold I do, I can overclock to 1.1, 1150, 1.2 not 1.250, 1.3 but not 1.4 (14x), no matter what I did to the voltages (which is odd because I had it running fine stable and happy at 1.466). Oddly enough when I set the multiplier to 12.5 it booted at 1300. Strange.
I don't really know what to do. I'd like to run this chip at 1.4 with 133fsb.

Here's my setup:

AXIA Week 15 Y Type 1Ghz T-Bird
Thermosonic Thermoengine with 23CFM (roughly) YStech fan.
MSI K7T Turbo R with the newest bios (I also tried to overclockers bios)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Hercules Prophet 4500
512 (2DIMMS) Micron PC133 Cas2 (7E chip)
3C905
Lucent 56K Slowdem
Teac 512EB 12X Burner
Toshiba 36X CD
Sony 210 GS monitor.
IBM GXP60 40Gig HD 7200Rpm
I have 2 case fans on this computer

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks a ton ya'll.
 

NightTrain

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This is apparently an ongoing issue with some MSI mobos. There are several workarounds...they usually involve a cold boot. I've read that people have some success with removing the power cord for 30 secs before booting back up with the new multiplier.

Look around here for more info