I must admit I am new to this, this is the first time I have even installed a motherboard myself, so that may be the problem. I bought a KT7-Raid motherboard, Kong Fai case, Duron 600 CPU (OEM) and a CoolerMaster DP5-5G11 CPU fan. I built the system using everything else from my old K6-2 300 MhZ. computer, including 2 sticks of 32MB PC100 SDRAM. I connected the L1 bridges using a HB pencil.
Upon initial boot-up, I kept all parameters on the BIOS as defaults, and after installing all drivers, everything worked fine. I ran the computer for 2 hours (could the problem have been that I didn't burn it in long enough before fiddling?) and then checked PC Health on BIOS. It showed a temp of 28C for system and 33C for CPU (fan was active). I then increased the CPU voltage to 1.7 and tried increasing the multiplier to 9 (for 900 MhZ). System would not boot to Windows effectively (I got a Windows Protection Error), so I continued to decrease multiplier until it would, which happened at 7 (for 700 MhZ). I ran Sandra SiSoft to verify that the increased multiplier was working correctly and it was. Then I increased voltage to 1.85, and found that would allow me to boot up to 750 MhZ, unfortunately the CPU temp was up to 53C, though system temp was still only 29C. Unfortunately, that seemed to break something, because the system would no longer boot at 1.5volts (default) at a multiplier of 6, or at 1.7volts for a 7 multiplier, but it would boot at a multiplier of 6 with 1.6 volts.
Of course, everyone else seems to be overclocking at least to 850, some to 900 or 950. What am I doing wrong? And did I somehow mess up the processor with my overclocking attempts?
Thanks for any info you can give me.
More info --- now, best I can do now is 650 at 7.5 volts. It seems to be getting worse with time.
Upon initial boot-up, I kept all parameters on the BIOS as defaults, and after installing all drivers, everything worked fine. I ran the computer for 2 hours (could the problem have been that I didn't burn it in long enough before fiddling?) and then checked PC Health on BIOS. It showed a temp of 28C for system and 33C for CPU (fan was active). I then increased the CPU voltage to 1.7 and tried increasing the multiplier to 9 (for 900 MhZ). System would not boot to Windows effectively (I got a Windows Protection Error), so I continued to decrease multiplier until it would, which happened at 7 (for 700 MhZ). I ran Sandra SiSoft to verify that the increased multiplier was working correctly and it was. Then I increased voltage to 1.85, and found that would allow me to boot up to 750 MhZ, unfortunately the CPU temp was up to 53C, though system temp was still only 29C. Unfortunately, that seemed to break something, because the system would no longer boot at 1.5volts (default) at a multiplier of 6, or at 1.7volts for a 7 multiplier, but it would boot at a multiplier of 6 with 1.6 volts.
Of course, everyone else seems to be overclocking at least to 850, some to 900 or 950. What am I doing wrong? And did I somehow mess up the processor with my overclocking attempts?
Thanks for any info you can give me.
More info --- now, best I can do now is 650 at 7.5 volts. It seems to be getting worse with time.
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