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Two FSB overclocking questions

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Question 1: I just booted my computer with 166 a little while ago and when the XP startup screen was supposed to pop up, it said something about the Windows/System directory being corrupted. What could this mean? I rebooted with 133 and it was fine again. No corruption. My motherboard has a 5/1 divider at 166, so the PCI/AGP was at 33/66. What could have gone wrong?

Question 2: I'm using a Giga-Byte GA-7VAXP Rev1.1. Does it have a 6/1 divider at 200FSB? I want to attempt to reach 200, but what are any possible dangers of that, assuming that there's a divider, other than the risk of putting my CPU up too high?
 
It appears that either the cpu, mem or something is being pushed too far on your o/c...

we need mor einfo on your specs
 
For the first question, I think I know why now. I enabled the "top performance" setting on my motherboard.

I need an answer for the second question now...
 
Bump... anyone know at least where I might be able to find out if it has a 1/5 divider? The Giga-Byte site doesn't say anything about PCI/AGP dividers.
 
www.ocworkbench.com's review

With what I read on this page in reference to the commment set cpu at 100, 133, or 166 I think there is in fact a 1/5 divider, but I wouldn't count on 1/6divider or the fsb would go higher then 200fsb....

Again it does not look like the best overclocker friendly board by this review either...
 
It's not THAT bad for OC, I think... and the FSB does go beyond 200. In fact, it goes to 250. There's a jumper setting that either sets you at 100, 133, or 166. From each jumper setting you can go from bios until you reach 1 mhz under the next jumper setting. From 166 you can go to 250.
 
Yes it gives the options in jumper format but most ppl want to be able to have more options in the bios menu, which is what the reviewers commented on. I think they said it lacked some other adjustments....

Good luck though....The 250fsb makes me think maybe there is a 1/6 divider cause a 1/5 divider with 250 would be 50 and I can't imagine that working with any device without failing to boot or destroying the component..
 
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