BSEL+vCore mod on E2200, Unstable

quadomatic

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I'm using the E2200 with BSEL 1066 and 1.4v mod on the ECS 945GCT-M mobo. I did a 1066 BSEL mod and a 1.4vCore mod. The motherboard reads the voltage as 1.328v.

First, when I boot the pc, it doesn't say my procesor is running 266fsb and ask if I want to continue. It just says something about the processor being 200mhz fsb bus detected,saying its not supported, and it will be slowed down. But, when I open CPU-Z, it says the fsb is 266, as it should be with the bsel mod.

BUT, when the processor isn't under stress, the multiplier is set to 6 instead of 11, so the Core Speed is 1.6ghz. When I do something that stresses the cpu a bit, it runs at 2.92ghz, as it should with BSEL.

Also, when checking the cpu speed under Windows XP (right click my computer>properties) it says the speed is 2.93ghz, all the time.

I checked my BIOS, and intel speedstep was set to automatic, so I changed it to disabled. Once I did that, ORTHOS would crash after a couple seconds, so I went back and set speedstep to maximum speed.

Volatge in the BIOS setup reads 1.328 volts. So, I guess that means the initial voltage was 1.27, like everyone said it would be around. Should I up the voltage a bit more?

I ran ORTHOS, and the test (Small FFTs) ran for 1 minute 25 seconds and stopped because it detected a hardware failure error. It said to check stress.txt, but I don't know where that is. I guess this probably means I should ramp up the voltage, unless that problem was detected in something other than the cpu.

I tried ORTHOS under blend, and the test lasted even less time. Is it possible the problem is ram related? I'm using the HP DDR2 667mhz ram. Is there a way for me to change ram timings or something so it works properly?

Any ideas on what I should do?
 

cubeless

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if u want to always see the max speed, turn off speedstep in bios...

the 1.4 mod didn't work in that board on a e4500 for me, either... the 1.5 mod did, though... didn't try 1.46 mod...

the blurbage at bootup is because the mobo don't recognize the cpu... use cpuz to see what u actually get... did u load the latest bios?

i tried 1.5v and 266fsb mods, both 'worked' but the board wouldn't load vista, even though it was orthos stable with xp... very odd... ended up cleaning off the mods and settling for 250 fsb, 2.75ghz... 1.5 made the chip need a big hsf, too, but 2.75 is fine with stock hsf...

this mobo ain't an oc'in platform... had to set the mem to 533, too, to end up with 667, since it's not stable at 800...

but for $118, it's a good price/perf deal...

 

quadomatic

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Originally posted by: cubeless
if u want to always see the max speed, turn off speedstep in bios...

the 1.4 mod didn't work in that board on a e4500 for me, either... the 1.5 mod did, though... didn't try 1.46 mod...

the blurbage at bootup is because the mobo don't recognize the cpu... use cpuz to see what u actually get... did u load the latest bios?

i tried 1.5v and 266fsb mods, both 'worked' but the board wouldn't load vista, even though it was orthos stable with xp... very odd... ended up cleaning off the mods and settling for 250 fsb, 2.75ghz... 1.5 made the chip need a big hsf, too, but 2.75 is fine with stock hsf...

this mobo ain't an oc'in platform... had to set the mem to 533, too, to end up with 667, since it's not stable at 800...

but for $118, it's a good price/perf deal...

Yeah, I figured out how to fix the bios settings so that it always runs at max speed. It looks like I'll have to up the voltage. I may just try the 1.5v mod instead of trying the 1.45v mod.