unstability when overclocking

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:59 pm

ok,

i have dual 500mhz @562 atm

when i bump them up to 600MHZ@2.1vcore... randomly i get bsods from several different types of files...

it ran great for awhile until i started playing a new game one day... the first day it played great... but when i went to play it the next day it would randomly lock up, reboot, or bsod

so... wtf do i do besides downclock?

if i up the vcore to 2.2v the mouse it jerky and barely works

Kuun

Post by **Derek** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 4:48 pm

Look into your cooling - check for dust on the heatsinks and fans and if the heatsinks are still seated properly.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 12:01 pm

it doesnt get hot

it gets to 113F/114F per CPU max

occasionally the BX chipset will hit 116F but will drop back down to 114F within minutes

Kuun

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:56 pm

Also, look at the the voltage High/Low range over time (with MBM). This might show that voltage drift is a problem. I just lost one of my (3) BP6 systems to bad Caps I'm sure. A P-III/1100E 384MB.

I was getting BSOD clusters about every 2-3 weeks - then stable for a while. Tried boosting the voltage to 1.80 then 1.85V
This helped for a while, but the CPU caps were clearly buldging. Finally last week - no boot, no way, no how! Just lockups lockups lockups - even early in the BIOS load, or in the setup screens.

Well, I've started to rebuild the system with a $40 (EBay) ACORP Dual 370 RAID board. Finally figured out how to OC that board to 110MHz FSB & will start to shop for the 2ND P-III/1100E soon. Looking to go with striped 120GB/8MB cache IDE array & an dedicated small UltraSCSI drive for a swap file. Big negative on the ACORP is the 512MB max RAM.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 10:19 pm

hmm let me look

i believe it does drift quite a bit...

the temperature is very wishy washyt, one minute it'll be 109F and the next it'll be 113F

so you never know

Kuun

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 10:24 pm

right now

im at 562@2.1vcore

the high for voltage is 2.13 and low is 2.05

temps, high is 116 and low is 105

Kuun

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 8:47 pm

Have you noticed your VTT voltage range? Could you tell us what that is doing?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:28 pm

VTT is low 1.44 and high is 1.55