I cant get my NF7-S to overclock AT ALL !

[phpdog]

Hi ,

I just bought an Abit NF7-S rev 2.0 and i got an Athlon XP 3000+ for it.

I cant get it to overclock even by 2 or 3 MHz in the FSB , and when i change the multiplier OR FSB the PC just dosent boot .

The monitor wont come on ?


Can anyone help with this ?

I dont expect the 3000+ to Overclock Greatly but i at least expected it to get to 3200+ speeds . :frown:

 

[Fern]

Unless you got an old chip, you can't change the multi. It's locked. Yeah, the mobo will let you change it in bios, but it ain't gonna work.

Up ur vcore a little bit and try again. Most nf7's undervolt the vcore, maybe urs too much so. D/l and run motherbord monitor 5 and confirm vcore (voltage to cpu).

Maybe ur ram is the cause, what do you have in there?. If it's pc3200 or better run memtest on it. See if anything turns up

Got a decent psu in there?

EDIT: Not to be picky, but ur not OCing ur NF7-S v.2 , it will handle FSB of 200/400. Your cpu only runs at I66/333 if I'm not mistaken. anyway, up the vcore a bit and good luck

 

[PremiumG]

had the same problem...

change FSB ratio (or something like that in BIOS) to 6/6 instead of auto and it helped me.

 

[phpdog]

Thanks ,

i tried upping vCore but everytime i touch anything in the soft menu with this chip ... i get no monitor at restart.

It just wont accept anything except default values ... i think i'll just sell this chip on ebay and get a 2500+.


Thanks anyway ... bye

 

[MTDEW]

i tried upping vCore but everytime i touch anything in the soft menu with this chip ... i get no monitor at restart.

Is it just no monitor signal or doesnt it boot at all?(any beeps??)

If its just monitor signal...
Do you have agp locked at 66?

I know both of mine hate it when i change my agp voltage on the 1st reboot, but second reboot and all is fine.
But upping vCore on cpu shouldnt effect monitor signal unless its not posting at all.
And my Radeon HATES it if i let the agp get out opf spec at all!

And i second the 6/6 setting, works best for me also.