Can't get FSB and mem to load windows @ 133/133

[Chrisdragon]

Ok, I have a ECS K7S5A motherboard w/lan, 768 PC133 Crucial DDR SDRAM (1 512 stick, 1 256 stick) and an AMD Athlon XP 2100+. I recently got the fan fixed on my volcano 9, when it was damaged I needed to bring the FSB to 100/100 to maintain lower temps. When I brought the FSB to 133/133 the first time in about a month, it refused to have any display onscreen for 5mins, turned off, turned on and booted normally. I get STOP errors with a memory address when I try loading. But the strange thing is it loads up w/o STOP error in safe mode. I am stuck running my 1.7@1.29ghz with 100/100, which has no freezing/stability problems.

I have both Norton Antivirus and Internet Security 2003, and my OS is Windows XP Home. I also ran Memtest86 with 133/133 and left it on overnight. When I woke up the following morning to check it, the machine froze up about 30 minutes into the test (65% of test was complete).

I tried booting up with each stick alone, no change. So what's the deal here? :-/

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

is there a divider you need to set (pci:cpu freq )

 

[Chrisdragon]

What do you mean by that?

 

[bedrocked]

there's a complete guide to this motherboard over at ocworkbench.com forums.. go to the ECS section, u can also find the latest hacked bios's for limited oc'ing and what not. and there is no divider on that boards bios so you don't need to worry about that.

i had this board for a bout 2 weeks to tide me over till i got my nforce board. few things it could be. one, this board is EXTREMELY picky with power supplies, you can pretty much garuntee that it'll run like crap (if at all) if you don't have a good PSU. this is partciularly an issue with using more then one stick of memory. but more often then not it's problems with your PSU.

second it could be the chipset heatsink. it is strongly recommended you remove the double sided tape that is on it because it insulates heat and causes a very unstable computer. alot of people remove the heatsink altogether and some people add some thermal paste and superglue.

strongly recommend reading the motherboard guide they put together over there tho. good luck!

 

[Chrisdragon]

I am using a CompUSA 300W PSU which I had no problem with this a few months ago, working fine till this incident happened.

I am reading stuff at the forum you mentioned above.

BIOS is dated 4/29/2002

CPU voltage is 1.744 v

It's definatly not a heat problem since it worked fine with the Aeroflow, and now I put my volcano 9 back on.

Tried both sticks of RAM alone, same freezeup

Dunno about the chipset, probably not

Dunno about the PSU, never had a problem with it. Could be tho