Help! I tried to OC and owned myself

[wittangamo]

The basic mistake has been covered already. The OP needed to reset the memory divider from 1:1.5 (266x1.5=400, or DDR 800. When he booted at 333, it went to DDR 1000, and he likely also neglected to bump the memory voltage from the default 1.8 to the spec for those sticks, which is I believe 2.2 v.

It's no surprise the system wouldn't boot. What is surprising is some of the replies he got.

In this case, the 333 fsb was fine and there was no need to raise the vcore. The memory divider should have been 1:1.20 for DDR 800 and the memory voltage should have been set to 2.2. That would have gotten him over the hump.

I do agree with those who suggested he read some OC guides, and the Abit forum link is also a good place to go. RTFM would have revealed the CMOS reset switch built into the IP35 Pro for just such situations.

I can't tell you how many times I've overclocked a system until it won't boot. There's always a moment of panic when you think you've broken you expensive new toy, but there's almost always a way to turn back the clock and get it running again unless you do something incredibly stupid like running without a cooler or cranking the voltage WAY out of spec.

Taking it slow is good advice. But let's remember we all made mistakes and this forum is here to share lessons learned.

 

[hokiealumnus]

Originally posted by: dflynchimp

Originally posted by: hokiealumnus
Good lord dflynchip, don't freak the poor guy out! Voltage can fry RAM but overclocking it too high without upping voltage will just keep it form posting. ...... Fry his RAM...sheesh.

hey, I was just speaking from experience. I upped the memory voltage to 2.8 on my old Athlon XP 3200+ with one stick of Ultra 512mb (that cheap POS cost me $70...can you believe it...) and the thing fizzled...literally. After that the system would just give me a catatonic bleaping noise whenever I tried to turn it on. Swapped in a pair of Corsair value and everything started working again.

Exactly my point...voltage fries RAM, not attempting an overclock that's too high. All he did was up the FSB according to his post.

Please excuse my tone; I didn't intend that to sound like it did. It was 2am and I wasn't thinking clearly. My apologies.

Of course, that said, anything is possible, so I suppose there are chips out there that die without putting lots of voltage to them. I'd wager it's extremely rare though.

Like everyone said before me, take it slowly. Read before you jump into this particular hobby. It's harder to do than in the past, but you can still hurt your expensive equipment if you don't do things right.

 

[daviclond]

Originally posted by: myocardia
This post is just an addendum to GuitarDaddy's post. While most P35 boards use the "memory multiplier" option for RAM speed (2x, 2.25x, 2.5x, etc), some actually use the actual speed option, like DDR 533 (which is 1:1, what you want), and I believe a few might use the ratio option, which would be 1:1 or 1:2, etc.

Yeah, the Abit IP35 Pro he has uses the ratio. I have the same board and will be overclocking it sometime soon, can't say this was the most encouraging of threads for me ;p But then I have read up on enough guides here to know why jumping straight to 333mhz with no other changes is a bad thing, so I should be alright

Originally posted by: hokiealumnus
OMGNOOO, go to the abit forums (link here), go into the "Intel chipset Socket T LGA 775 Motherboards" section and there is a LONG thread about overclocking with the IP-35 Pro. There is also an "Overclocking!" section with good info.

Another good resource is this long thread started & maintained by SerpentRoyal. There is a ton of info in there. The thread is about the IP35-E but there is a lot of info that can help you too.

Woah thanks this looks really useful. I'll get swotting up on this before I go zapping my new hardware.

 

[Dfere]

Silly Rabbit,

One already owns oneself, therefore, to "own" oneself again through some sort of stupidity is only compounding the apparent error.....

Logic, rabbit, logic.


(OK. So I just got through Bioshock and wanted to make a joke, sue me. You have to admit the Cirque Du Soleil level on Bioshock was cool, though).

 

[jeffw2767602]

this is why i love my gigabyte board. i am a first time OCer w/ a q6600 at 3.6 and my gigabyte board just resets itself if i push it too hard . good luck to the OP w/ youre q6600 and i agree with the guy above...read up on OC'ing before you try it out. i mean really do your homework. it will make the experience much better.

 

[Acanthus]

You simply didnt set a memory multiplier low enough, and didnt supply enough voltage to the cpu.

No big deal, just make a correction and try again

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: jeffw2767602
this is why i love my gigabyte board. i am a first time OCer w/ a q6600 at 3.6 and my gigabyte board just resets itself if i push it too hard . good luck to the OP w/ youre q6600 and i agree with the guy above...read up on OC'ing before you try it out. i mean really do your homework. it will make the experience much better.

That dual-BIOS? I think that's what you mean.

It's pretty cool. That Easytune program is not so bad, either. Much better than nTune for the noobs. . . .

 

[math20]

I did that before as well, just had to hold down the power button and it rebooted and cleared the overclocking settings. It is pretty hard to fry a c2d especially if you don't change the voltage.

What I had to do to get the OC settings working properly was lower the memory multiplier to 2.00 and up the voltage a bit to the CPU. Good luck with your overclock!

 

[aigomorla]

im laughing at all the wrong posts people are commenting on.

A few have stated this, but it seems the one with only 20 posts total as i write this got the complete explaination correct.

You bump'd your FSB to 333, which using the memory divider made your ram go to 1000mhz. I would love a pair of sticks that could do 1000mhz @ 1.8V That would be awesome.

 

[wittangamo]

Hey, I may only have 22 posts, but I also have that many years of experience building and playing with PCs. That means I've been around long enough to know that when you ask a question in forums like this one, you'll get lots of free advice -- but following some of it can cost you.

 

[betasub]

Yah, who knows what poster lies behind a newb ATforum ID?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: wittangamo

Hey, I may only have 22 posts, but I also have that many years of experience building and playing with PCs. That means I've been around long enough to know that when you ask a question in forums like this one, you'll get lots of free advice -- but following some of it can cost you.

Welcome to Anandtech incase no one said so to you.

And yes you seem to know a lot more then what most do. :]

 

[covert24]

if abit includes some type of overclock protection then it should be fine. if not than im sure you still didnt mess anything up but the chances you did are slightly higher. take out battery for 10 minutes and unhook your computers power supply power cord.