Little backgroud: I ran my Athlon XP 1700+ at stock speeds for about a week. I decided to overclock the next week and just adjusted the mutiplier, not the bus. It was very stable and I didn't have a single issue other than the heat that was generated. Well about 3 days ago I decided to up the bus to 166..... x 10. It ran great and my frames per second increased about 10 in BF1942. I was satisfied. This was all in an older case without a single case fan. Well my Lian-Li comes in (it has 4 case fans) and I moved my system over. I power it on and bam it doesn't get past the post. It showed processor and no ram and just sat there. I tried several more times and the same thing happened. Mind you it wouldn't power off either WITHOUT holding the power button for about 5 seconds. Well after about the 4th time, the video didn't come up. I was really confused now. So, I took the side off and reseated the video card and ram (which both were in firmly but I did it anyway). It booted up !!! I thought I had solved the problem. It ran fine the rest of the night. Well, yesterday I come home from work and boot it up, same thing, no video but I can hear the hard drive spinning. So, I tried a few times and wiggled a few cords and it booted up. I got worried that there is an issue and I have no clue how to solve it. I played some BF and ran a few apps and everything was ok. So, I install a new mouse and the software and it needs to reboot so I tried. I now have a new problem...it gets stuck at Windows Shutting Down (Windows XP Pro). So, I manually power it off and what do you know ??? No video. To make a long story short I went back into bios and ran the chip at stock speed and it works perfectly now.
SO.....does my new case with 4 fans require adjusting of any voltages? (My CPU temp never got over 57 by the way). I figured that with my Abit NF7-S and a 1700b I could have better luck overclocking. Could these be XP related? I hope someone out there has an idea, thanks.
SO.....does my new case with 4 fans require adjusting of any voltages? (My CPU temp never got over 57 by the way). I figured that with my Abit NF7-S and a 1700b I could have better luck overclocking. Could these be XP related? I hope someone out there has an idea, thanks.
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