stability woes -- help !

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My system is KT7A, Duron 600, FOP32-1, 128MB crucial cas2 , Radeon LE ....

Overclocked to 800 (6x133) - Everything fine at default voltage 1.5.
Anything above this (866=6.5x133@1.575V, 933=7x133@1.725V) everything works fine except prime95 which gives a hardware error. Tried increasing voltage upto 1.8V (for 933) and prime95 crashes become less frequent but other stability issues seem to crop up (random freezes).

Any ideas/suggestions ????
BTW, temps never exeed 45C.

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[Tomsawyer]

You may have just reached the max potential of your chip, or perhaps one of your pci components just doesnt like the increased front side bus. My old NIC card was very flaky about that. Try removing all non can say about random freezes. I posted out in general about my experiences with direct x 8.0a. After I esentiall components and see if she will post higher. IF so you have find your weak link. One other thing I cleaned out my system and went back to 7.0 my system has yet to freeze with the mouse still being able to move. Right now its at 24C, 800mhz oc'd to 1.1ghz. Soon as I get that special crucial memory tommorow I am running rampant heheh.

[Tomsawyer]

Umm is it me or did my post above turn into garble?

[Rocky55]

what temps do u run at those voltages?

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Tomsawyer -
Your post is garbled :o
I'm running at 133/33 on the KT7A so my PCI slots are at
the standard 33MHz. Also 800=6x133 seems to be fine.
The only PCI card I have is the SB Live!
I do have DX8a - Would switching to DX7 help ?

Rocky55
Temps are never above 44 C.
933=7x133 @ 1.8v gives me around 44 C (with prime95 running).
933 @1.725V gives me around 39 C but I can't run prime95 for
long.
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[snag]

DOH - Double post

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Any more suggestions anyone ?

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[proze]

what hdd do you have? maybe it doesn't like anything over 33mhz... has been known to happen...

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proze :

I have the Quantum Fireball AS.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought when you run at 133 Mhz
on a VIA133A chipset, all devices run at specs ?

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[Colin]

If you are getting a round of error in Prime, your CPU is the culprit.

[proze]

yup.. sorry, my bad. thought you were oc'ing with the fsb, but now i see it's just with the multiplier. yes, when the fsb is 133 or above, BIOS uses the 1/4 divider and you get 33mhz for your pci bus.

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Bummer :o

Colin :
Any way to ensure that it does better (increasing voltage further) ?
Or is reducing the speed the only way out ?


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