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SETI: Overclocking pains

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RavenHare

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Athlon 2400+
WinXP Pro

I just wanted a few more WU's, so I decided to overclock my new watercooled main machine a little. Started by increasing the 133x2 FSB to 135x2. Nothing big. Booted up ok...Windows running fine. Temps at 36C under full load. Ran Prime95 overnight to check for stability. In the morning, the machine had reboot...sitting there frozen with some message about horrid, evil corruption of System32 files. Reset standard settings in BIOS. Repair from Emergency disk didn't work. System restores lost. Repair from install CD's didn't work. Everything on disk unrecoverable. Disk failure???

I repartitioned and reinstalled. Everything better after much pain for a 2mhz boost in FSB. :disgust:
 
Get Norton System Works and run GHOST as soon as you have the OS installed and all the drivers installed.

Do either a partition to partition or a disk to disk CLONE.

Then OC to you hearts content.

The next time you corrupt your OS, you'll only be 15 minutes away from a recovery. 😉
 
Man thats bad luck to corrupt the OS for just a 2MHz FSB increase!:Q
That HDD must be a little flaky ,isn't an old Maxtor is it?
 
Holy cow! All that after just a 2mhz bump! There is something else going on. I would also agree that it is probably a flaky HD that is on the edge anyway. Plus can you give us more system specs please.
 
Ok...specs:

Asus A7V8X
AMD Athlon 2400+ (266 FSB)
1GB Kingston PC2100 Cas2.5 RAM (2 x 512)
Promise TX2 Fastrack RAID Controller
60GB Maxtor Diamondmax 7200 RPM HDD (x 2 on RAID lvl 0)
LiteOn 52x24x52x CDRW
Toshiba 16x DVD-Rom
Leadtek GF4 Ti4600 Video
Audigy2 Platinum Sound
Klipsch Promedia 2.1 (x 2 in a 4.2 setup)
Koolance PC2-C Watercooled Case w/200 Gold CPU cooler
Antec TruePower 430W PSU
Onboard Broadcom Gigabit NIC
WinXP Pro

I just now came home with Symantec Ghost. I learn quickly!...sometimes. 🙂

I have never overclocked anything, so I was trying to go slowly like all the guides say. I didn't think 2mhz was too much to start with.
 
RavenHare ia'm using a A7V8X with a 2700xp and had that happen to me, but trying for 200 FSB. Sound's like a hard drive problem, or the RAID ?
 
Can you lock the PCI and AGP busses on that board to make sure your peripherals and disks don't run out of spec? Does that board automatically unlock the multipliers for you (my nforce2-based Epox 8RDA does)? If so, you might want to try overclocking that way.
 
Originally posted by: RavenHare

I just now came home with Symantec Ghost. I learn quickly!...sometimes. 🙂

I have never overclocked anything, so I was trying to go slowly like all the guides say. I didn't think 2mhz was too much to start with.
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Did you ever hear the old story about the "straw that broke the camel's back"? 😛 😀

LOL
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
Can you lock the PCI and AGP busses on that board to make sure your peripherals and disks don't run out of spec? Does that board automatically unlock the multipliers for you (my nforce2-based Epox 8RDA does)? If so, you might want to try overclocking that way.
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No it can't lock the PCI bus,that mbrd uses the KT400 chipset.
Even so ,HDDs etc shouldn't have any problems running on a 37MHz bus ,which would give at least 185MHz FSB ,wierd
😕
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
Can you lock the PCI and AGP busses on that board to make sure your peripherals and disks don't run out of spec? Does that board automatically unlock the multipliers for you (my nforce2-based Epox 8RDA does)? If so, you might want to try overclocking that way.
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In changing the FSB on this board, you choose a PCI speed along with a FSB. It looks something like 133/33, 134/33, 135/33, 136/34, 137/34, 138/34, etc... I think I picked 135/33 FSB because it was the fastest speed without increasing the PCI bus speed.
 
Yeah ,at 133MHz ,upto I don't know what MHz😉 ,the PCI bus will be on a 1/4 divider.Somewhere before 166MHz the 1/5 divider will kick in.

I still think you've got a faulty HDD or something
 
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