System Hang

[xRubyWeaponx]

I recently decided to raise the frequency on my OLD Athlon 3700+ (San Diego, 1MB L2, 2.2Ghz) and I successfully overclocked it by 600MHz to 2805MHz~, not trying to go any further.

I'm running at a multiplier of 11, with Bus Speed at 255MHz. I lowered the HTT (LDT) Link Multiplier to x4, and Memory Frequency at 166MHz (which is now at 200MHz from Bus Speed increases). Voltage is at 1.5v, which goes the same for the chipset voltage.

Now the problem is my system hangs when I transcode video in Nero Vision (which worked fine before this additional overclock [I went from 2310 -> 2805]). After around 7 minutes, my computer just freezes on one frame and is unresponsive. This is unusual because I ran Prime95 for near 5 hours with no errors or warnings, and have been using the computer to play games fine.

My CPU temperature is ~30C at idle, and ~40C at load, which seem very reasonable to me. I doubt it has to do with northbridge heat, because it was much hotter before I aimed a fan at it. And, my HDD temperature is at ~40C.

My board and memory are fine, as I ran the HTT Link at 1.2GHz stable once, and memory at 210 MHz 24/7.

This problem also seems to happen when Rosetta@Home is active, sometimes (not too frequent though).

Any ideas? ;/ [Ported question]

 

[TC91]

did you stress test the cpu with something like prime95 or occt?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i had the same freezing problem when my system was under load. i got a new psu and i'm testing it right now. you should consider a new PSU also, its probably old and dying.

i thought it was a psu problem bc i'd never get any BSODs or Errors with OCCT/P95 which tells me its not a CPU/Windows instability program.

 

[xRubyWeaponx]

Yeah, but wouldn't a PSU problem cause a quick reset/crash[Blue]? A system hang is usually an error.

 

[OCGuy]

Your CPU can not handle the settings. You need to stress test before you consider it a successful overclock.

 

[xRubyWeaponx]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Your CPU can not handle the settings. You need to stress test before you consider it a successful overclock.

I DID stress test. Abnormal behaviour only happens in Nero Vision.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

does ur system pass 24hours of p95 small ffts? i know OCCT is a better test and only lasts 2 hours, but p95 can stress ur cpu for 24 hours, to tell u if ur psu can handle the long periods of load.