Memory problem or SE6 Mobo?

[KenG]

I have SE6, 700e cBo, 128 meg Corsair CAS2 RAM 2,2, 5/7, 2. At FSB 100... no problem. Mem scored 284 cpu and 314 fpu in Sandra.

But at FSB 133 I can't check the memory perfomrance in Sandra. Just sits there saying the benchmark is being run, but nothing happens. All locked up. Have to do a hard reboot.

The SE6 doesn't do extended post right. Goes through memory checking three times, then boots ok. (Memory checks out OK, also) With quick POST enabled it does fine.

I have the SW bios installed. Increased the voltage to 1.70v. No difference. I'm going to try some BIOS tweaks, but thought some of you might have experience with things like this. I don't have another stick of RAM to try.

Thanks in advance.

 

[KenG]

More information: changing the bios settings to 2 2 6/8 2 (from 2 2 5/7 2)helped. Now up to FSB 140 and stable. Latest Sandra scores are 386 cpu and 420 fpu
3D Mark 2000 is 6780

Maybe there's nothing wrong with the board OR the RAM. I just thought that at FSB 133 the RAM was right on spec and should have been ok unless either it or the board was defective.

This is my first overclocking attempt, and hope some of you experienced overclockers might have some suggestions.

Like, how far temp wise should I push it if it is otherwise stable? Got up to 43.5 deg. C with cpu burn running and after playing Quake III demo for half an hour. Oh, and both MBM and HW Doctor report a higher system temp than cpu temp..... by several degrees 49 vs 43.5
What is that?

I put this post here because the main issue is the new SE6 and it's performance.


Abit SE6
PIII 700e @ FSB 140 (980)
CL Annihlator GeForce 2
CL SB Live
IBM ATA100 (bench 23302 .. forget the units)
Alpha PAL with Sunon Fan
Arctic Silver heatsink compound
Fong Kai case