AMD XP's been unstable? Over clocked to fix the problem

[Melvis]

Hello all,

I have a question on my old PC, its a AMD XP 2100+ , 2x512 DDR2100, GA-7DXE Mobo, and a FX5700 256MB card.

Anyway i have had to over clock the CPU to 1.85GHz from the standard 1.7GHz Because of it getting unstable and having errors and other weird things, but this has only happened since i put in the FX5700, it did have a old MX 440 64MB card in it and it ran fine for around 5yrs at 1.7GHz, standard settings. Just ever since the FX5700 was installed it was unstable and have windows errors etc, but now its fine at the clock speed it is at now.

I had a friend who also had a very similar problem to me, and it was a AMD XP 3200 with a 6600GT, and he had to over clock it just 50MHz for it also to run stable ish lol

Anyway was wondering if anyone else out there had very similar problems to me and my friend? or is this just a comin thing with the old XPs?

Cheers

 

[hat]

Huh? It was unstable at stock settings, then you overclocked it and it became stable?

Your computer totally defies the laws of the universe! McDonalds is healthy! Division by zero is possible!
uhh... nothin I can say really. I *have* heard of too much voltage possibly causing instability, but I don't think so myself, unless the excessive voltage is causing too much heat for the chip to handle. But in your case, this wouldn't apply...

 

[Melvis]

Huh? It was unstable at stock settings, then you overclocked it and it became stable?

Your computer totally defies the laws of the universe! McDonalds is healthy! Division by zero is possible!
uhh... nothin I can say really. I *have* heard of too much voltage possibly causing instability, but I don't think so myself, unless the excessive voltage is causing too much heat for the chip to handle. But in your case, this wouldn't apply...

LOL yep thats what iam saying, its weird, but thats what happened to mine and my m8s comp, so thats why i thought id ask on here to see if anyone else has had this very weird problem =/

 

[hat]

I dunno, maybe you had too many volts doing nothing and they decided to cause trouble, like a bunch of kids in school with no work to do, so they start fucking around... but then you overclocked it and put them to work. Or perhaps you can ask Ben Clarke, he claims atoms don't exist, and everything is controlled by nomes and hyper-nomes, he probably has some nomey explination for this. Enjoy the extra MHz is all *I* can say...

 

[Melvis]

I dunno, maybe you had too many volts doing nothing and they decided to cause trouble, like a bunch of kids in school with no work to do, so they start fucking around... but then you overclocked it and put them to work. Or perhaps you can ask Ben Clarke, he claims atoms don't exist, and everything is controlled by nomes and hyper-nomes, he probably has some nomey explination for this. Enjoy the extra MHz is all *I* can say...

lol yea nice one, good description, umm i have no idea on the extra volts, but i did change the PSU because i notice the old PSU was fluctuating in the volts some of the rail volts etc, so i bought a new one and this fixed that problem, but did not fix the original problem =/

Yea ill , or i should say the GF is enjoying the extra MHz, but i have noticed that if i played a game on it and i stressed it to its max, it would just slow down, stop, then reboot itself , and thats happened a few times, apart from that, its seem ok..

 

[yogurt_21]

I have the same issue on my Athlon XP 2600-m the bios doesn't allow you to go lower than 1.6v on the cpu and my 2600 mobile was designed for 1.45v so I can't run it at the stock 2GHZ, I have to clock it to at least 2.4GHZ on 1.6v to get it stable. 2.5GHZ is ideal.

but mine's a mobile chip, so how the heck is your board supplying too much voltage to you desktop version AXP 2100??

 

[Melvis]

I have the same issue on my Athlon XP 2600-m the bios doesn't allow you to go lower than 1.6v on the cpu and my 2600 mobile was designed for 1.45v so I can't run it at the stock 2GHZ, I have to clock it to at least 2.4GHZ on 1.6v to get it stable. 2.5GHZ is ideal.

but mine's a mobile chip, so how the heck is your board supplying too much voltage to you desktop version AXP 2100??

O ok yay at least there is someone out there that has a similar problem to me, but yea im realy not sure on the volts thing tho, i gotta look at what it is doin and see if that is the problem, i was also thinking maybe with this FX5700 that it needs a power cord, this might be pushing the volts up Otherwise i have no idea....

Thanks for your replie tho