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Asus P4C800-E Deluxe overclocking failed

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PCdruggy

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Hello everyone, This is my problem. I get a message sometimes when I start my computer. This message is 'Overclocked failed'. Its not a big thing since it only comes on a couple times a day but its annoying as heck since I haven't even overclocked my computer. I changed the PSU from 330w to 500w and that didn't help. I also reseated my CPU and that didn't help. The only thing I changed in the bios was the Memory timings to 400. Any help would be appreciated. Here are my specs.

Microsoft XP Pro
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
Prescott Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz
Corsair XMS 2048 mb PC3200
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
2- WD 120 gig hard drives
 
What do you mean by memory timings to 400? You mean your memory is running at 400 mhz? I certainly hope it's not! if it is, then that's too high! I'd be surprised they haven't burned out or your computer even posted.😛
 
I've gotten that error on many older asus P4 boards, and the customer's were definitely not overclocking.

Most times i've found thta it was a bad motherboard because in all cases after i replaced the board with an MSI or Gigabyte, the problem was fixed. And i even flashed the bios on the boards to and no solution.

 
The only thing I changed in the bios was the Memory timings to 400
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That's the frequency, not the "timings". You should just set it to AUTO in BIOS, it will adjust appropriately.

Try resetting the CMOS jumper, consult your manual. Also, make sure you have the latest BIOS.
 
Has it always been like this?
If not, what triggered it?

Before making any more adjustments, download the free CPU-Z utility from here.
It is a small executable. Run it and report the following back.

On the CPU tab, what do you see under "Voltage", "Core speed", and "FSB"?
On the "Mainboard" tab, what is reported as the "Bios version"?
From the Memory tab, report all the numbers.
On the SPD tab, what do you see under the 200MHz column (I assume that is the last column)?

Do you have two 1GB memory modules or four 512MB modules?
If the former, which slots are they in?

What is your CPU temperature? You can find that out using the utility that is on the motherboard CD or you can use SpeedFan or many other utilities.
 
Suggestion: Look up the settings for all your equipment and set it manually, except PEG link as mucking about with that seems to result in nothing but horrific graphic corruption. (It's my only AUTO setting on the ASUS board.)

Rant: My A8N32-SLi Deluxe board from Asus overclocks by default if you set anything to auto. I was actually unable to use my newest PC without locking up after building it until I went through the bios and set everything to MANUAL and then the correct timings/voltage/hz ... Asus also seems to think it's an awsome idea to add .05v to any CPU core, thus the 1.35v setting on my board makes my CPU's voltage 1.4v ... I've read that they do this to improve the stability of the CPU, and improve benchmarks over other brands- however it resulted in my 4800X2 AMD system being incredibly unstable and possibly even damaged that chip as it was on stock cooling and hit 60c under light load. (I'm assuming it was going much higher under moderate/heavy load, before the lockups.) After each lockup it would tell me the overclocking failed and would prompt me to either edit my bios or set it to default. At the time most any frequency setting was set to AUTO, as were voltages.
 
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