Overclocking athlon xp

[binladenpl]

Ok so when i try to overclock thru the bios and set the mhz even by 5mhz is would not boot , but when i do it thru speedfan it lets me to go up pytty high any one know what the problem?

 

[3991vhtes]

plz be more clear....

What Athlon XP is it? There's like 5 diff. ones.
What PR Rating is it? (eg. 2600+)
What mobo do you have?
What kind of RAM (this plays a huge diff) SDRAM, DDR?
OS?
BIOS? (AMI, Award, other)

 

[binladenpl]

i have it all in my specs please look there , thx for fast response < never really get them here

ram sdram

win xp

bios pheonix technologys
rev 1007 10\06\03

athlon xp 3000+

 

[3991vhtes]

ok that clears it up....

What brand is the mobo? Abit? Asus?

Also, what kind of RAM is it? SDRAM, or DDR?

 

[binladenpl]

Asus

SDRAM

ermm forgot to include the samsung ram i managed to fix yesterday by flashing my bios its a 512mb

 

[binladenpl]

I spotted a weird thing.

You know cpuz? so when i go to the memory selection one of the slots have 3 tables on the bottom and the other has 2 you have that 2?

 

[3991vhtes]

ok...

It probably won't POST past even 5MHz because it's not Double Data Rate. (DDR=Double data rate). Or, it's because it's SDRAM.

IMO SDRAM is a pain in the rear when it comes to overclocking, because when you change the FSB, it's also changing the RAM speed.

Also, I'm sure that your motherboard wasn't really designed for overclocking. Otherwise, it probably would want to POST even +5MHz.

That's all I can think of ATM....

hope it helped

 

[binladenpl]

ok...

It probably won't POST past even 5MHz because it's not Double Data Rate. (DDR=Double data rate). Or, it's because it's SDRAM.

IMO SDRAM is a pain in the rear when it comes to overclocking, because when you change the FSB, it's also changing the RAM speed.

Also, I'm sure that your motherboard wasn't really designed for overclocking. Otherwise, it probably would want to POST even +5MHz.

That's all I can think of ATM....

hope it helped

it does POST but would not load windows

 

[3991vhtes]

Thats what I get...

BTW, I'm on a Athlon XP system w/ SDRAM

 

[binladenpl]

Thats what I get...

BTW, I'm on a Athlon XP system w/ SDRAM

i ment SPD

 

[3991vhtes]

it does POST but would not load windows

Oh, guess i read it wrong

Try raising Voltage in VERY LITTLE INCREMENTS OR YOU CAN DAMAGE YOUR HARDWARE!!!
Had this happen to me once, where my system was OC'd on stock volts, and Windows doesn't load, but increasing the Volts made it load into windows....

 

[3991vhtes]

i ment SPD

 

[binladenpl]

Oh damn i spotted something even weirder!!!!

so my SDRAM changed to DRAM WTF

look , i tired increasing volts it just gave me ability to set to higher MHZ with speedfan

wait a sec uploading imgs of SPD

 

[binladenpl]

Here

 

[binladenpl]

Lol u guys enjoying my background eh?

 

[Grings]

That samsung stick is whats holding it back, have you tried using just the kingston stick?

 

[binladenpl]

yeah they both used to run on AGGRESIVE settings on bios , would not boot now when i aggress them

on kingstone alone it wouldint go aggresive so i dont know whats the prob

 

[hat]

Why are you blotting our your serial numbers? lol

 

[binladenpl]

Why are you blotting our your serial numbers? lol

idk i saw the other one do it so i did it too. Why are u asking?? u want them HEHEHHEHEE?

u cant get them now Booha

 

[3991vhtes]

Your RAM is DDR

Grings is right, your Samsung is holding you back.

 

[3991vhtes]

Why are you blotting our your serial numbers? lol

because no one needs to know other ppl's serial numbers....

 

[Grings]

try setting them manually, i think agressive settings merely uses the fastest spd timings available (so it would have set to the slowest sticks spd), however, that samsung stick *should* be ok at 166(333) 7-3-3-cl2.5 or cl3.
the real problem however is nforce2 chipsets work best when the memory speed is synchronised with the fsb, and your chip being a 3000 is going to be a 166fsb chip

try with the setting in this picture ive added, however ignore my cpu ext freq & multi settings (leave your cpu at 166 for now, if the mem frequency is set to 100% it should also read 166), then try running memtest to make sure the ram's stable at that frequency

edit: bugger, i should have resized that first

 

[hat]

because no one needs to know other ppl's serial numbers....

SO what if I did know your serial numbers? All it would do was tell me exactly what RAM you have, it's not like I can take your RAM serial numbers and use it to build a nuclear weapon and wipe out your city.

 

[devguy]

I don't know if this is your problem, but on my Dad's Athlon XP machine, he can't overclock any because the mainboard doesn't have a pci/agp speed lock or even a divider. The processor in there overclocks well, and the mainboard has all kinds of advanced options, but the mainboard won't let it go anywhere as there is not way to lock the pci/agp busses or set them on a divider.

 

[xnox202]

I think your motherboard is A7N8X-E Deluxe? If it is, then it should be no problem overclocking it. It's a very good overclocking motherboard. Remember not to forget the PCI/AGP set to 66Mhz.

And as other as said, try removing your Samsung stick and try oc again. Also do not change the divider too far, or risk corrupting the bios. You'll lose alot of performance if you use the divider.

Try user defined, bump your timings to 3-3-3-8, volts to 2.7. See if you can raise the fsb by that.