At my wits end with a2200 stability...

[mcast12]

Athlon 2200 (o'clocked to 2400)
Asus mobos
1 Gb of 2700 DDR ram
Geforce4 4600

Upgraded my athlon 1600 to a 2200 with an asus mobo, flashed the mobo bios to support the higher clock speed. Had huge problems with getting the PC to just boot into the bios. I then spent 3 days trying to get the PC to boot into bios by manually changing the clock speeds on mobo. Finally got into bios (by manually o'clocking the CPU to 2400) then booted up the OS, I've had stability problems ever since.

I've since upgraded the mobo, memory, CPU fan, case, PSU, cd drive, HD, graphics card and floppy drive. The PC still keeps randomly rebooting on me while playing games, I've re-installed the OS (XP) 5 times now due to the file corruptions caused by the reboots.

I upped the CPU core voltage from 1.75v to 1.85v which seems to have helped the stability but I'm still having issues. It doesn't look like a heat issue as the bios reports it running quite cool.

I'm now at the stage where I think the new CPU is faulty and I'm going to buy a P4 mobo and P4 CPU?

 

[merlocka]

You need to provide alot more information for anyone to help assist you.

1) Which motherboard are you using, and with which BIOS?
2) What brand of memory?
3) Have you tried downloading MEMTEST to determine if your memory is the problem?
4) Have you tried running the CPU at the default clock speed (13.5 x 133MHz FSB)?

Regarding windows stability, have you installed all the latest chipset drivers and video drivers for your motherboard?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

you overclocked it, duh!

is that 2400mhz, or the rating of 2400+?

go to default and see if you have the problems....

 

[MovingTarget]

My experience with a 2200+ is a bit similar. It will overclock to a rating of 2400+ (2.005GHz) easily. I did this the first time i booted my system and it worked perfectly and has been stable ever since. My current vcore is 1.60v running @ 105 degrees F(other stats are in my sig). However, I know for sure it can go up to 1.85v, but thats the highest i've tried it when attempting further overclocking. I have had trouble overclocking it more than that though since i just cant get it stable at a 2600+ rating, which is still less than a 2.4GHz actual clock speed. So no, i believe mcast12 might be talking about the rating. If you are going at 2.4ghz, then hopefully you can tell me your secret...

EDIT: grammar

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Have you tried running this new mobo with the 1600+?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
My experience with a 2200+ is a bit similar. It will overclock to a rating of 2400+ (2.005GHz) easily. I did this the first time i booted my system and it worked perfectly and has been stable ever since. My current vcore is 1.60v running @ 105 degrees F(other stats are in my sig). However, I know for sure it can go up to 1.85v, but thats the highest i've tried it when attempting further overclocking. I have had trouble overclocking it more than that though since i just cant get it stable at a 2600+ rating, which is still less than a 2.4GHz actual clock speed. So no, i believe mcast12 might be talking about the rating. If you are going at 2.4ghz, then hopefully you can tell me your secret...

EDIT: grammar

thats what im making sure of.

If he's goin for 2400mhz, he's definitely not gonna make it.
If he's goin for 2400+ rating, then he has a chance but evidently its not stable.