Audigy disappears after overclocking?

[chantcdcom]

I don't exactly have an "extreme" O/C going on -- here are the specs:

Mobo: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
CPU: Amd 3500+ CPU (Newcastle .13 micron)
CPU voltage 1.55 + 5%
HT 225
LDT 4X
CPU mult 11X
DDR clock 166 MHz (which becomes 190 MHz)
Nforce 4 voltage: 1.6
Memory voltage: 2.65

So my CPU becomes a 2,508 MHz from a 2,200.

Anyhow, using Clockgen, I can see that my PCI bus is still 33 MHz, even though there is no "PCI lock" per se in the BIOS.

Nevertheless, right now my Audigy card -- the only PCI in the system (the only other card PERIOD is a PCI-Express ATI Sapphire X300) - is not being found by Windows XP.

What should I try doing? I am still using the stock BIOS -- v1.1. Should I upgrade to v1.5 (which I found on MSI's website)?
I can't figure out why it can't find the card. I would try enabling the onboard sound, but that would lower my recording quality.

I am one of those few that actually needs an add-in card For movies, games, listening to music, and 99% of the population, integrated sound is just fine. But if you're hooking up a microphone to record singing, etc. -- then there's a lot of noise if you use an onboard sound card.

Thanks,

Matthew

 

[Elfear]

I had the same problem with my sata drives disappearing when I raised the fsb up over a certain amount. I think some of the Neo4 boards have problems with the locks. I ended up RMAing it and going DFI. You might want to check out the MSI forums and see if there has been a fix for this problem.