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Am I supposed to turn off my pc when I oc in bios?

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platinumike

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I have an athlon xp 2100. With a 133mhz fsb, but my ram is kingston valueram 2700, so I wanna try to get this fsb at least close to 166. Thing is, the other day I raised my fsb to 150 but didnt lower the multiplier, The monitor would have a steady green light, but the screen was just black, so I tried going into bios, but my keyboard would lock up after 2 moves!. I reset my pc at least 10x and the keyboard kept locking up(tried a ps2 and usb kb) Finally, I just unplug my pc and leave for a few hours, come back and bios didnt lock up. So, now I wana try lowering the multiplier and raising the fsb, I lowered the multi to 10 and raised the fsb to 160, saved and exited bios, and the monitor would just stay black but with a blinking green light. However bios didnt lock up. My cpu is running at a 1.79 vcore, when its supposed to be 1.75, other than that it is slightly hot(runs at 67-69*C idle) I have arctic silver on the cpu,(remounted many times) and a good heatsink, even a huge house fan blowing strait into my pc. Anyways, anyone have any suggestions on how I can go about overclocking?thanks.
 
I modestly say I'm still a novice at this, and I haven't worked with an AMD processor since their 9Mhz entry designed to fit an 8088 socket.

For P4 -- your "idle" temperature would be a "thermal event" and the processor would throttle down. This temperature is way too high for an "idle" value, in my opinion.

Not knowing much else, I'd pull the machine off its cabling, go to the workbench, pull the side-panel and check to see if your HSF is properly mounted. Then -- maybe after re-mounting the HSF with the right amount of thermal paste -- set everything back to stock settings in the BIOS and start over-clocking again -- cautiously in increments -- but only after you get an idle temperature that is at least below 45C.
 
My mistake. According to AMD's Product Technical Information on the Athlon XP -- all speeds including the 2100 -- 90C is the maximum design temperature.

 
My cpu is running at a 1.79 vcore, when its supposed to be 1.75, other than that it is slightly hot(runs at 67-69*C idle)
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Slightly hot??? That is DAMN hot for an idle temp I would say! Is that a Palomino or a Thoroughbred (A or B) core you have there? My old 2000+ Palomino would run at 60-62C full load. Have you applied the right (small) amount of AS and not covered it completely in the stuff? What cooler are you using? I would not recommend trying an overclock of a Palomino with stock cooling.

Other than that it seems your CPU is very limited when it comes to overclocking. My 2000+ would not let me raise the fsb above 147 mhz, even if I pushed the Vcore.
 
Originally posted by: platinumike
I have an athlon xp 2100. With a 133mhz fsb, but my ram is kingston valueram 2700, so I wanna try to get this fsb at least close to 166. Thing is, the other day I raised my fsb to 150 but didnt lower the multiplier, The monitor would have a steady green light, but the screen was just black, so I tried going into bios, but my keyboard would lock up after 2 moves!. I reset my pc at least 10x and the keyboard kept locking up(tried a ps2 and usb kb) Finally, I just unplug my pc and leave for a few hours, come back and bios didnt lock up. So, now I wana try lowering the multiplier and raising the fsb, I lowered the multi to 10 and raised the fsb to 160, saved and exited bios, and the monitor would just stay black but with a blinking green light. However bios didnt lock up. My cpu is running at a 1.79 vcore, when its supposed to be 1.75, other than that it is slightly hot(runs at 67-69*C idle) I have arctic silver on the cpu,(remounted many times) and a good heatsink, even a huge house fan blowing strait into my pc. Anyways, anyone have any suggestions on how I can go about overclocking?thanks.
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You need to fill us in on what you have. What brand motherboard? what heatsink? fan? Brand of memory? etc.
 
sorry. Thanks for replies though. Its a palamino core xp 2100. The motherboard is an asus a7v333., and as far as I know there is not a agp/pci frequencey to adjust, my ram is kingston value ram, 1 512mb stick@2700 1 256mb stick @3200. I was using a all copper heatsink, with arctic silver, but it was around 78*C. I recently switched to this heatsink:http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...jsp?ProductCode=370652.
 
ok, I just tried it again, set the multi to 10 and the fsb to 150. It hung at startup, and when I got back into bios, it said something like: "cpu hung because of an improper cpu frequency combination" dunno what that means, anyone the slightest clue?
 
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