Whats wrong with this crappy intel?

[Sniper82]

Just put a P4 2.4Ghz together for the first time. I've never fooled with a P4 setup before just AMD systems. Ok it worked good for a week or so. But today I try to overclock it to see what FSB I could get it to post at. Well I try 142 boots to windows XP then I go all out and try 166 which it posted and loaded into windows and reset itself. Well after reseting it back to 133 FSB and stuff it posts and then shows the screen before the windows loading logo and resets itself constantly. I set it back to default speed what could the problem be? Only thing I havent done was reset CMOS but what good would that do?

Any ideas? Its won't even try to load windows now it just resets inself constantly before getting to the WinXP logo loading screen.

 

[EXman]

Only thing I havent done was reset CMOS but what good would that do?

it will get you to default settings... I'd try that first

 

[Budman]

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[SpeedFreak03]

Had the same thing happen with an Athlon system I built. Set back to default settings (if jumpers) and reset the CMOS. It solved the problem for me!

 

[Sniper82]

just like I thought clearing CMOS did nothing. The computer is posting fine its just not trying to load windows. CMOS only resets the BIOS and my settings in the BIOS before I cleared it was perfectly fine.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: ^Sniper^
just like I thought clearing CMOS did nothing. The computer is posting fine its just not trying to load windows. CMOS only resets the BIOS and my settings in the BIOS before I cleared it was perfectly fine.

Any other suggestions?

did you enable you agp/pci lock?

Overclocking it too far probably corrupted your Windows instalaltion & you'll probably have to reinstall it again,next time dont just too far ahead.

Up the fsb gradualy & when it's unstable up the voltage a little,NEVER go over 1.70v for a P4 northwood.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: ^Sniper^
just like I thought clearing CMOS did nothing. The computer is posting fine its just not trying to load windows. CMOS only resets the BIOS and my settings in the BIOS before I cleared it was perfectly fine.

Any other suggestions?

did you enable you agp/pci lock?

Overclocking it too far probably corrupted your Windows instalaltion & you'll probably have to reinstall it again,next time dont just too far ahead.

Up the fsb gradualy & when it's unstable up the voltage a little,NEVER go over 1.70v for a P4 northwood.

That's what i was thinking... my friend's computer did that... he overclocked his P4 without setting the right dividers... needless to say i became he free tech support and i had to do it all over for him... :|

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

This is unlikely, but the hard drive could have had a problem and thats whats causing it now. Is the power supply adequate? Posting the specs might help because something else could have been affected as well even though it is unlikely.

When I first read the subject, I thought that this would turn into a flame thread.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Tried booting in to safe mode? You can boot from the XP CD and run chkdsk /r/f from the repair console, and if needed fixboot and fixMBR. If none of that works do the repair install s o you don't lose your settings, files, and programs.

 

[Dulanic]

Ya you probably fried your windows install... Ive done it before. A unstable CPU overclock can do it... but it's more then likely RAM o/cing that did it... maybe have your timing settings a bit too aggresive?

 

[Viper96720]

Yes I would change the topic name. Intel is crappy because you try to run it past its spec?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
Yes I would change the topic name. Intel is crappy because you try to run it past its spec?

Exactly. It's not their fault your system as a whole can't handle a 24% overclock and that you trashed Windows trying it.