- Jul 16, 2001
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I'm sure most of you know my system...A DFI NF3 Lanparty with a Sempron 2800+ 90nm, eVGA 6800NU unlocked, and an Enermax 460w PSU. Well, for those of you that remember my sempron thread, I was able to get my Sempy up to 2.72ghz before I stopped due to heat. I used to run it at 2.6 during the winter, and dropped it a notch to 2.5 when it started getting warm out, and it has run fine without a hitch for months.
When I had received a gig of Winbond UTT, I dropped my CPU down to 1.8 so I could specifically test the memory. Today I wanted to re-OC my system, so I set it to 2.4, which would have been good enough for me had it worked.
Windows errored out before finishing loading, and upon reboot checkdisk popped up and told me I had bad sectors on my HD (IBM Deskstar ATA100 7200RPM 60GB). I let it fix that, and so I boot into windows. I go to run prime, but it crashes immediately upon trying to launch it. After that, I go to run Doom 3, and that also crashes immediately. I went to go reboot, and my screen turned into a million whacky colors like my videocard had just went. I dropped my settings down to stock, and now all is fine. I know for a fact my system is easily stable at 2.4, as I had run it at 2.5 for quite some time. Having simultaneous issues with my HD (IDE), Video Card (AGP), and CPU lead me to believe that my PCI/AGP lock on my motherboard is not functioning anymore. What do you think?
When I had received a gig of Winbond UTT, I dropped my CPU down to 1.8 so I could specifically test the memory. Today I wanted to re-OC my system, so I set it to 2.4, which would have been good enough for me had it worked.
Windows errored out before finishing loading, and upon reboot checkdisk popped up and told me I had bad sectors on my HD (IBM Deskstar ATA100 7200RPM 60GB). I let it fix that, and so I boot into windows. I go to run prime, but it crashes immediately upon trying to launch it. After that, I go to run Doom 3, and that also crashes immediately. I went to go reboot, and my screen turned into a million whacky colors like my videocard had just went. I dropped my settings down to stock, and now all is fine. I know for a fact my system is easily stable at 2.4, as I had run it at 2.5 for quite some time. Having simultaneous issues with my HD (IDE), Video Card (AGP), and CPU lead me to believe that my PCI/AGP lock on my motherboard is not functioning anymore. What do you think?
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