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[RobertRoig]

I just reinstalled windows, i wanted to reset and couldn't wait, and XP was booting... and F8 doesn't work, it says: "Choose an option" and doesn't let me boot. and if i don't press F8 it tells me to press f8 and choose boot mode.

Anyways, i opened all the way the CPU, i have a lousy 700 MHz core.
now i am runnit at 2.1 core (as set on CMOS) yet, MBM shows up 2.00 core voltage.
Temperature is up 3ºC (46 Now.)
now i will try to go back 2.3 and see if it changes.. i probably need to buy thermal thing and put it in core...
Temps are 46 46 22 31 30.

[Ottoman]

man,
u have TOO MUCH voltage..

and u're temps are way higher...

that 44 is at the HSF, not yor core, it's WAY off

back down to stock...
then up it little by little, and only add voltage if it's unstable of wont post...

instability can be caused by TOO much voltage as well...

more is not always better

[RobertRoig]

Default core voltage is 1.7 for the 100.2 MHz FSB
if i try to boot with FSB 110.. it won't let me unless i set higher voltages.
I cheked the core and it is a 700 ThunderBird.

If i use 2.05 it won't finish boot and as my Windows XP has something wrong... i have to install it again in repair mode, and takes some 45 minutes...
with 2.1v boots ok, but eventually hangs.. so i have to use 2.2v if i want to set FSB to 110.

I'm gonna also try now with lower voltages with FSB 100 and see if it is stable too and at lower temps
i may also take some pictures... :)

[Ottoman]

what are your other sys specs??

u may have a bottle neck, and voltage aint the prob

[RobertRoig]

i have a AOpen AK72 motherboard with latest bios. a 64Mb PC133 dimm and a 128Mb PC133 dimm. Thunderbird 700 anda Maxi gmaer Cougar 32Mb(TNT2) and a 10/100 net card, a normal ATX power supply...

when i try to change FSB from 100 to 110 i have to raise voltage to 2.2v that is way higher than anyone else here... and no matter the voltage i can't get 115 FSB to pass the "veryfying DMI pool data" or something... (and that was with 3.something volts)
some extra specs 17" Tatung monitor, a 8x4x32 Samsung 408-b CDRW and a 10Gb Seagate HD.

The best tweaking so far has been the fan noise reduction thing...:rolleyes:

[Ottoman]

is it a .18 micron or .25 core?

25's don't OC so well...

try removing one of the sticks of ram... tho it that shouldn't matter..

have u tried slowing down the ram?

how many volts is your PSU?

[RobertRoig]

it is a 18 micron i think it was...
how may i slow down the RAM ?
i don't know what you mean...doesn't RAM run at FSB speed ?
there are many things in CMOS i do not know how they work, and thus wich option is best... but...Tell me
what is the PSU ? powerr supply ?= 200 or 250Watt... it sown't say anything...

[Ottoman]

ram has Cas latency/timing..

yes PSU is power supply, u should have AT LEAST 300 Watt usually 350 or more is recommended...

there are many BIOS tweaks that affect your overclocking...

If it's not your PSU than it's deffinately your Bios..

[RobertRoig]

I don't know how many Watt my PSU has...
how can i tell?
Then, RAM CAS ... what is it? a Bios setting value? how much should it be? 2 ?
I set all to turbo... i will check today to ... what.. i don't know if i have to lower thngs o turn them up...
latency short is good or bad?
what should i do?
i know i must turn L2cache off so that it doesn't affect as i still don't have a GDF and thus, i cannot change settings of L2cache...
tell me...

[4.6POWER]

woa woa woa... easy fellas, going a little fast here. Robert... in an earlier thread you mentioned something about checking whether or not the computer is stable at NORMAL speeds, you need to make sure everything works extremely well before you begin to overclock.

Do NOT disable the L2 cache!! This is a temporary memory area where your cpu stores bits of data that are accessed more frequently than others. It operates much faster than your system ram, which is where it would be otherwise stored. Even if you could overclock to 1Ghz with the cache off, your system would be slower than at 700 with the cache on.

Before I start in with the overclocking bit.. it would be good to know what we are dealing with. Make a sinature at the bottom just like mine. I don't know much about the a-open motherboard, but I'm assuming it's the via KX133 chipset? Someone please double check. If you are using that with a tbird proccessor, I would recommend not to overclock at all... since there are already some incompatibility issues reported with it at normal speeds. Look forward to your next post, and WELCOME!! :D
Joe