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Strange Duron....help!

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Fish54

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I picked up a week 29 Duron a few weeks ago, and jsut recently got my KT7 and started overclocking. The first bad thing that happened was after finally getting Win2k to work correctly, I rebooted and my p/s died! Then I finally got it all working again, and it ran at 900 stabily at 1.8V and crashed at 950 at all supported voltages. That was cool with me, but I wanted more anyways. I ordered and installed an FOP-32, as there are no alphas to be found (I was runnaing an old FEP-32) Well, before the FOP-32 fot here, the computer crashed at 900, so I clocked it back to 850...fine. A day later, crashed at 850. Now what!?!?! Set it back to 800, seemed stable...an hour later...BSOD! I'm now running at 750mhz@1.85 !! I can't boot at anything over 850, and even that is a crap shoot! Anyone got any idea what is happening? BTW, I have my FOP-32 on it now, and temps are below 35C, still no go! Thanks
-Fish
 
Have you ever gave thought to the possibility that it may not be your CPU causing problems? Try changing video cards, motherboards, power supplies.

-RSI
 
Try and redo the penciling tricks one more time. I also have a week 29 and it's been up for 3 days cracking RC5 at 900MHz.
 
thanks for the help guys, keep it coming, I have clocked back my video card, and done some tweaking in the bios. One thing I should mention is that my machine is ALWAYS cracking keys! I have it installed as a service. Now, I must wait and see if it's stable, I'm at 800@1.85 (actually 1.9...) I'm gunna try 850 now I think. Thanks!
-Fish
 
I bought a Duron650 off a brother than couldn't get it past 750mHz. I simply booted up on my motherboard at 850mHz and haven't messed with it since. It would probably do the 900mHz dance, just didn't bother because its going through a 30-day stress test on a 384mb hard-drive. 🙂
 
Hi everyone, thanks for the suggestions! After some minor tweaking, I was able to boot at 950. It would freeze in windows, so I clocked it back to 927. here it ran well, but blue screened after a seemingly very stable set of benchmarks. Finally, I set it back to 910 (909, but reports as 910) @ 1.85VCORE and things seem like they should be. Turns out it may have been some memory timing issues and a too high of a video card overclock. Thanks again for the advice!


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AMD Duron 600mhz@910mhz
GlobalWIN FOP-32
Abit KT7
128Megs PC100 CAS2 SDRAM
3dfx Velocity 100 using Voodoo drivers
and overclocked to 160mhz
Sound Blaster AWE64
9.1 Gig IBM 7200rpm
4.3 Gig Fujitsu 5400rpm
 
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