Apparently I'm not allowed to run stock speeds now

[Icopoli]

Yeah. I've had my newcastle running at 2.35ghz for the last 9 months without problems, today it was a balmy 95F outside and I decided I didn't want my room the same temperature while playing games. So I'm too lazy to get a software cpu overclocking program and reboot to bios so I can give my CPU a break for once. Go into 'Jumper Free Settings' in bios, turn down 'Front Side Bus' or whatever Asus decided to call it to 200mhz from 235, save and exit. Reboots, POST's, tell it to boot from my primary XP install and it reboots. wtf? POST's, tell it to boot from secondary XP install, reboots. Uh oh. POST's, primary partition in safe mode, hangs at MUP.sys for 10 minutes, ok.....Manual restart, POST, primary partition, restore mode, MUP.sys, reboot. So I figure it wants to cool down or not be molested for a bit, computers are tempermental, I do tech support for a living, happens all the time right? Go lay down for an hour as it's like 1am and I really should sleep, but I take a nap. Now 1:45am, should be good to go now. Power on, POST, primary install, reboot. DAMMIT! I take a shot in the dark and bump it back up to 235mhz, save exit, reboot. POST, primary partition, XP loads. I then promptly leave this post in hope that this has happened to someone else and I'm not crazy.

 

[lxskllr]

I've had that happen to me also. I never bothered finding a solution, because faster is better, right? One thing I suspected is that it might go back to the slower speed if it was stepped down gradually. I haven't gotten around to trying though.

 

[Some1ne]

When you lowered your FSB, did you also set back any entries for other settings that you changed when you originally set the FSB to 235 MHz? If you changed thing like the RAM divider, HTT multiplier, etc. then it's remotely possible that there's something weird going on related to that.

Also, if you really want to verify that you don't get to run at stock settings, you could try a CMOS clear and see if it will boot.

 

[Megatomic]

Or you could have tried loading the optimized defaults in the BIOS. Maybe you did try that already but if not give that a shot.

 

[strend]

I've had this issue as well. I owned a 1700+ that would not run stable at stock speeds unless overvolted, right out of the box. But that same voltage took it to 2.4...go figure.

 

[Icopoli]

Good points,

1.) I never had to set a divider, beautiful thing about this board.
2.) Never changed HTT.
3.) Yeah, could've reset bios to defaults, but I've tweaked a lot more than I care to remember what I've done at 2am. When I'm not tired and I have time to mess around, I'll step down little by little, if that doesn't work, I'll reset and go from there.

Thanks for the ideas.