Newbie: P4s333 and 2.0a

[nracklyeft]

Hey guys,
This is the second computer I'm attempting to build.
The first one was in 1998, it was a PII350 and a friend of mine set all the jumpers for me.

Now i'm realizing my experience isn't enough to figure all this out.
I have the Asus P4s333 and Intel 2.0a with (2) 256mb Crucial PC2700 DDR-SDRam modules.
I left all the jumper settings to default (jumperless) and plugged in the CPU, Ram, and video (Asus ti4600).

I am pretty sure I should be manually setting the board frequency jumpers to 133cpu/166ram (133x4 = 533 and 166x2 = 333), but when I did, the CPU hanged and nothing came up.

I set it back to jumper-free mode and it boots, only occasionally it will hang after doing a soft reset.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[AkumaX]

whao dude... you're pretty optimistic in o/cing your 2.0a

what you're aiming for is going from 2.0a ->2.66ghz. im not saying its impossible, but 2.4-2.5ghz seems to be the norm for the northwoods.

 

[nracklyeft]

My real question still stands: is my FSB and ram set correctly? I think the jumper-free runs them both at 100mhz...

 

[DinoGucci]

ok man you ready for some lessons?
you gotta a good ram stick, so dont touch any hardware for now, just go play in the bios.
crank some voltage a little by little (vcore) and later you can play with memv. set your ram to either 4:5 or 4:6 go up with the FSB a little by alittle. it should go 133 easily. try 140 FSB and test alittle. run some games, 3Dbenchmark, SIS Sandra and so on. thats it kool for now. come and back and tell whats up.

dino

 

[THUGSROOK]

run in jumperfree mode.
set it to 2000mhz in bios.
set memory ratio to 3:5 in bios.

thats it

if you want to try to overclock it...
set the overvolt jumper on the top left corner of the board.
set it to 2660mhz in bios.
set cpu voltage to 1.65v in bios. (1.75v reality)
set memory ratio to 4:5 in bios.

it may or may not bootup tho.

 

[Acanthus]

Thugs described it perfectly, his instructions should work as long as your CPU is of high enough yield and your rig has good cooling.