HELP! Newbie killed his computer!

[savoirfaire]

So... I have a rig with a shuttle ak32 and an Athlon XP 1600+ (AROIA)

I've been doing a lot of reading about overclocking and was experimenting just a little. All I did was go into the BIOS and increase the clock multiplier from 10.5 (default) to 11.0 and rebooted. Everything worked fine except Sandra showed the clock multiplier was still 10.5 and no indication that anything had changed. So I decided to see if the processor is locked by rebooting and going back into BIOS. I dropped the multiplier from 11.0 down to 9.5 and rebooted. Now the computer won't boot up! I don't get the diagnostic screen or anything. Can't boot from a floppy or from the CD drives. Did I kill my mobo somehow???

 

[savoirfaire]

OK, I tried clearing the CMOS a second time and that seemed to fix the problem. Man, that's enough to turn a guy off from experimenting forever. What did I do wrong?

 

[Zebo]

Locked multi is my guess it's been awile though.. seach how to unlock...

 

[gamerj]

PFff...resetting Cmos aint Sh*t lol...

The only way you could really kill a componant is by upping the voltage too much....

Well that and let it run too hot, but if your temps are good now, the only way to increase your temps is by upping voltage...
Just be carefull with Volts, and you should be fine

 

[daveybrat]

Don't even bother overclocking a 1600+. It's not worth the little results you'd get. Only the thoroughbred chips overclocked decently and your motherboard does not have any AGP/PCI lock on it, so you could end up corrupting the data on your hard drive. Not worth it

 

[Spikesoldier]

actually i recall a few 1600's with a certain stepping that could make the jump to 1.8 or 1.9ghz, not too bad coming from 1.4GHz.

those compared nothing to the JIUCB tbred b 1700+'s though.

 

[daveybrat]

actually i recall a few 1600's with a certain stepping that could make the jump to 1.8 or 1.9ghz,

That may be true, but his motherboard uses the KT266 Via chipset which does not have an AGP/PCI multiplier lock, so going that high will probably corrupt his data on his hard drive.

You are about as fast as you can take that for now. It's not worth upgrading that cpu either, as the highest that board takes is a 2400+ and that's too expensive.

A new motherboard and Cpu combo should be your next option when this one becomes too slow

 

[savoirfaire]

Originally posted by: daveybrat

actually i recall a few 1600's with a certain stepping that could make the jump to 1.8 or 1.9ghz,

That may be true, but his motherboard uses the KT266 Via chipset which does not have an AGP/PCI multiplier lock, so going that high will probably corrupt his data on his hard drive.

You are about as fast as you can take that for now. It's not worth upgrading that cpu either, as the highest that board takes is a 2400+ and that's too expensive.

A new motherboard and Cpu combo should be your next option when this one becomes too slow

I appreciate the info, daveybrat... I did dink around with it a little bit and got up to 1.54ghz but brought it back down to stock since you mentioned the possibility of corrupting my data. I'm inheriting a rig with a 2500+ chip that has been running at 2.3ghz so I wanted to become a little more familiar with oc'ing before it gets here.