hddy
01-22-01, 12:35 PM
I just upgraded my AMD Athlon 'K7' 800MHz to a AMD Athlon 'K7' 950MHz a few days ago and ran it at 950 for a few days then I overclocked it to 1022MHz 107FSB at default 1.81 voltage. It booted up and would go into the desktop, but if I tried to benchmark Quake III demo it would freeze dump me back to desktop at whatever resolution I was playing Quake III demo at and give me an error message and then I can do nothing so I restart and get all these blue sceens of death. So I upped the voltage to 1.85 and everything is OK. I can play Quake III, surf, Photoshop, etc...until I tried playing Unreal Tournament demo, after about a minute or less I get dumped back to the desktop and get a long error message. I can still do other stuff though after it dumps me out, but when I tried to shut down I get a blue screen that says "Windows protection error. You need to restart your machine." I restart and everything is okay. Is it a UT problem or is it a overclocking problem? My 950 is at 107FSB and it's temp is 31C after it's been on for a while. I was thinking of upping the VCore voltage to 1.90, would that be the right thing to do or is it too high? I have a Asus K7V w/ the latest BIOS 1007, Asus Geforce V6600 SGRAM, and 2 sticks of 128MB PC100 SDRAM (1 stick is Kingston ValueRam, and the other I don't know). Any help would be much appreciated, I only upgraded to a 950MHz because I thought it could reach 1GHz w/ no problems because old 'K7' 800MHz ran at 107FSB with no problems. Thanks.