Specs:
Athlon 2600xp-mobile
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
Corsair 2-512mb pc3200 Value Ram
I bought the mobile because it has no lock on the multiplier so I was free to oc it like crazy. At first I had it running at 2.4ghz, then a month or so later my games began to crash. At first I thought it was the actual game for I would only get windows errors and I was only playing EQ2 and it happened after this 1 big patch so I thought the developers probably messed something up. But once I started playing another game and had that crash too I knew I had a problem.
So first thing I did was lower my overclock to 2ghz and I thought the problem was fixed. However, a month or 2 went by and again my computer began to crash and restart on its own. So.. I lowered it to 1.6ghz with that seeming to fix my problem. Well now after a month it has begun to crash again and at 1.2ghz it is not fixing itself and I'm down and out.
I thought it was my processor, but I switched it out with my brothers mobile that works fine for him and I still have the same problem. I switched out my memory with some pc2700 and it still crashed when I played a game.
So my question is, is it my motherboard? could it be? what would make for this decline? From my story here you can see how every 1-2 months I would have to lower it 400 mhz on the oc. Soon I was underclocking it and it was crashing. I don't want to buy a new motherboard and have that not be the problem. I have memtest my memory and used prime when it was crashing at 2.0ghz so I am pretty much clueless at this point on what it could be. Perhaps the powersupply isn't giving it enough power?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated and a big thanks in advance.
Currently
Athlon 2600xp-mobile
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
Corsair 2-512mb pc3200 Value Ram
I bought the mobile because it has no lock on the multiplier so I was free to oc it like crazy. At first I had it running at 2.4ghz, then a month or so later my games began to crash. At first I thought it was the actual game for I would only get windows errors and I was only playing EQ2 and it happened after this 1 big patch so I thought the developers probably messed something up. But once I started playing another game and had that crash too I knew I had a problem.
So first thing I did was lower my overclock to 2ghz and I thought the problem was fixed. However, a month or 2 went by and again my computer began to crash and restart on its own. So.. I lowered it to 1.6ghz with that seeming to fix my problem. Well now after a month it has begun to crash again and at 1.2ghz it is not fixing itself and I'm down and out.
I thought it was my processor, but I switched it out with my brothers mobile that works fine for him and I still have the same problem. I switched out my memory with some pc2700 and it still crashed when I played a game.
So my question is, is it my motherboard? could it be? what would make for this decline? From my story here you can see how every 1-2 months I would have to lower it 400 mhz on the oc. Soon I was underclocking it and it was crashing. I don't want to buy a new motherboard and have that not be the problem. I have memtest my memory and used prime when it was crashing at 2.0ghz so I am pretty much clueless at this point on what it could be. Perhaps the powersupply isn't giving it enough power?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated and a big thanks in advance.
Currently
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