Could my CPU be fried?

[jpetter76]

I am having some technical difficulties with my new system. I have an ABIT IC7 motherboard with a P4 2.6C, 1 gb of Corsair VS RAM, and an ATI 9700 Pro. I did some overclocking (only to a 240 FSB) and now my games are causing the computer to freeze (even at 200 FSB). Dungeon Siege, Morrowind and Warcraft 3 all freeze the system. I have, however, been able to run the ATI directX 9 demos with no problems. Do you think that I have fried the CPU, or am I encountering problems with software and/or drivers?

My FSB is set back to 200, CPU voltage is at 1.525, 1:1 ratio, and my memory timings are 3-8-4-4. I?m not having problems with any programs other than the games. I installed driver updates for the Realtek 97 sound as well as the motherboard drivers. I am using BIOS 1.3. Does this sound like the case of a fried CPU? I actually have a 2.66 533FSB that I could try running, or should I start by reinstalling the BIOS and OS? (which I did once already)

The only other thing that I think could be happening is that my audio is messing things up somehow. When I scroll with the mouse or the computer is doing some type of operation, there is interference noise coming from the speakers.

Any help would be appreciated-

 

[Jgtdragon]

Sounds like video card driver issue to me. What driver you using? Cat 3.4? I heard 3.4 giving people lots of problems, try using cat 3.2.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

format and start fresh

theres lotsa crap to remove when you remove ati drivers (probably for nvidia too.) but if you want to you could do it all (search remove ati drivers on google, it should be like the first link or something)

 

[jpetter76]

That seemed to have worked - many thanks

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: jpetter76
That seemed to have worked - many thanks

no problemo
for some reason, ive noticed that ify ou install one driver set, then update it without uninstalling (and remoiving all that other crap) the screws arent as good...

in any case, always destroy old drivers completely before putting on new ones

 

[jpetter76]

Alright - so here is the wierd part. Things seemed to have stabilized (thank God), and I was able to go ahead and reinstall the Catalyst 3.4 driver. So I increased the FSB again (up to 240 with 5:4 DDR ratio). Previously when I had the FSB at 240, I was getting frame rates of close to 90 with the Dungeon Siege benchmark test. Now it doesn't even go over 55 with the same overclock. Anything above 240 and the sound cuts out - probably because I'm using the Intel stock heat sink. Whats the deal? Think I can expect to go much higher than 240 with a Thermaltake Volcano?

Thanks