Athlon XP 2100+ crashes when it's set to the right speed!

[Spiffae]

Hi all, i'm building a system now, and i'm having a problem. I'm running a Soyo KT333 Dragon Lite mobo, a palomino 2100+ and the regular stuff. When i start up and go to BIOS, I can set the FSB (i think) to 300 or 333. at 300, my processor reports as a 1500+, and at 333 it reports as 2100+. Thing is, when i was trying to install windows XP (i'm writing from another comp) the damn thing wouldn't install at 333. It gave me a message about some file.i386 or some garbage not being present, and then rebooted me. I reset the bios to failsafe settings, and now it's installing. can i safely set it back to 2100 after it's installed? I'm hesitant to be honest, because i've already blown one chip (doing stupid stuff, but still).

 

[Vic]

correct FSB for a Palomino 2100+ is 133 (or 266 DDR). Correct setting is 133 * 13 = 1.733GHz
I think your problem is that you need to set the multi to 13

 

[jiffylube1024]

As said above, the correct setting for an XP 2100+ is 13X133 Mhz. It sounds like your multiplier is all over the place, plus I guess your board doesn't support a 1/5 PCI dividor (or you're just not using it) causing the instability at 300 or 333 FSB. Note that 333 MHz FSB isn't officially supported by the KT333 chipset. 333 Mhz DDR is supported, however (hence the name of the chipset).

 

[Spiffae]

whoops. totally big mistake by me. the two settings are 100 and 133, not 300 and 333. you guys are right, but my question still stands. replace 300 with 100, and 333 with 133.
sorry.