why am I stuck at 1000?

[DARTHPCSERVER]

I have tried a bunch of diff settings, I can't push this 900 past 1000, was running at 1050 (10.5x100)still some errors,
it seems I can't bump the fsb at all, get plenty of errors, even at 103.. have tried 100 x11.5, x11, x10.5, and fsb at 110,107,105,103..all errors, the higher ones give me a non system disk error..weird? also volt is at 1.85, plenty of cooling w/fop 38 and good sunon case fans..bios is flashed to 1005a I think?..any ideas?

 

[Taplight]

I feel for you Darth. It might be that your cpu just isn't very overclockable. However, before you throw in the towel, check your temps, just in case the mating of the heatsink to the cpu die wasn't good. If they're kinda high(over 50ish at idle) you might want to try reseating the hs. Could also be something other than your cpu that doesnt like the higher fsb like your sound card, etc. May want to try booting up without it and see what happens. Looks like you have good memory and the video card should take the overclock but I don't know specifically about the radeon. Is there an option that let's you up the memory clock without affecting anything else? If you can, you'll get better performance even at the same cpu speed. That's about all I can think of right now. Good luck.

 

[Compuguru]

My 1ghz TBird wont go past 1.1 so I know what youre feelin. Theres not much you can do with a bad chip.

 

[SinMen]

We should look at it the other way round. If you can OC the CPU, even a little bit, consider yourself lucky; a lot, your are very lucky. It not, that's what you pay for. Then you will be a lot happier.

 

[DARTHPCSERVER]

hmm thats interesting about the sound card..I've never heard of that being an issue..I'm going to remove it and give that a try..its an older soundblaster live value..as far as the temps they seem to be very steady at 44c under load..

 

[AmazonRasta]

Have you tried upping the voltage?

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Whoops, sorry didn't read your full thread
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[Wiz]

I had a 16 bit soundblaster live value that was holding back my overclock once.
No idea why but without it I could go higher than with it. Got a cheap PCI card instead and never looked back!

 

[Operandi]

non-system disk error: that sounds like a like a problem between your Hard drive and the chipset being overclocked. if you have DMA turned on you may want to trun it off, ive seen that work in the past with OC'd FSB's. Tyry lower in the multiplyer and keeping the FSB OC'd and see if you conitinue to get the error. If you dont your CPU has prolly hit its limit.

 

[DARTHPCSERVER]

I'll give that a whirl tomorrow eve..thanks, I'm guessing to turn off dma its in the bios?
I'm so disapointed I want to push this sucker to 1.1

 

[Operandi]

DMA settings are within winodows in the device manager by defalt they are off.

 

[Lounatik]

Darth,

I was reading a post around here saying that if you are having trouble with the stabilty,you should try lowering the voltage to the 1.675/1.70 stting.I did this and my 1 gig now sits at 1224 rock stable.I also tried the A7v-133 BIOS (avu102a1).You can get it here Use at your own risk,though I have read at several sites that the update performs great .To me it made a nice diff in temp and stability.Also let me oc my ram to 7ns 143mhz where before the old bios wouldnt let me do that.



Peace



Lounatik


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