Video card errors when overclocking the FSB with my 2500+ Barton

treadhed

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I'm about to start trouble shooting this problem, but I wanted to post my issue here first to maybe get some experience thrown at it. I have a 2500 barton oced to 3200+ /w a 200 fsb. My 3200 OCZ is running at a 1:1 ratio, set by the MSI K7N2 Delta MB. Nvidia 2 controller, of course. It is very stable in normal applications, even a single run of 3DMark2001 SE. My temp right now on the processor is 40.5 Cs, it gets up to around 50 when it's being pushed on Doom3. The problem seems to be with my video

I have a powercolor radeon 9600 pro. It crashes after I've been playing doom 3 for maybe 20-30 minutes. I can tell it is because sometimes it will pop a message when it locks, saying the video chip has stopped responding and has been reset. Sometimes it will keep going, sometimes not.

One question I have on this, should my agp or pci settings be tweaked since I'm running at the 200 fsb instead of the normal 166 for my processor, or do any of you old school overclockers see anything that might be leading to the problem?

It works fine at normal settings (166 FSB).

Thanks in advance
 

Fern

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should my agp or pci settings be tweaked since I'm running at the 200 fsb instead of the normal 166 for my processor

You want to leave those at their native frequency: 66 mhz for AGP, and 33 mhz for PCI.

Can you check to see if your card is possibly overheating (you didn't tweak/increase the juice to it did you?).
 

treadhed

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Nah, I left the video card alone. I wanted to get my system boosted some before I messed with my card.