help me on my AMD K6 233

[Possessed]

I have an amd K6 233 cpu on an QDI Titanium IB+ motherboard which has Speed Easy (so no jumpers on board), the problem is that when I try to overclock my cpu, putting my bus at 75 or 82MHz, it does not startup or if it does freezes when loading windows, should i change the core voltage? The max multiplier i can put is 3.5X (which may bring my cpu up to 82*3.5~290MHz that would be a nice speed up for this oldie, joining this a 16 Mhz bus boost). If any additional info needed please say.

[Fiz]

I would say the problem is one of your cards or your harddrive. Try taking everything except the video card and harddrive out and give it a shot. When you put the fsb at 83 the pci clock is close to 37.5 MHZ, some older stuff may give you a problem. Good luck.

[spidi]

yo dood
if your mobo supports it try upping your cpu's core voltage in 0.1v steps if not go up to the next vcore step ie. u could be at 2.4vcore at the mo. the next setting could be 2.6vcore or 2.7vcore ( if u have a good cpu cooler u can go higher , if not then don't till u get one ) and try to post up the system to see if that will get u into windoz
if great if not then u could be having a problem with clock speed cause u will be hitting around 37/37mhz which can cause problems with some hard disc drives and graphics cards ( older ones mainly )

good luck

[Possessed]

The problem then must the hard disk. The sound card is a SBlive! 1024 and the graphic card is a creative geforce2mx, so they are new enough. (no other cards). My HDD is a 4.3GB segate that is 3 1/2 years old.
I took my cpu core voltage from 3.2 to 3.3v (boards maximum) and I have a a cooler more than 1inch high plus fan (more than enough).

[Bovon]

Core V. on the older K6-2s was about 2.2 volts. The 3.3 volts is the I/O voltage for the MMX part. The older K6 series just had core and no I/O. Some of the later K6-2s went to 2.4 volts core. If you are in fact running that K6-2 at 3.3 volts, its a wonder its sticking with you.

I would set it back to 2.2 to 2.4 core, and retry the fsb up a little, and yes...by all means, when overclocking, always remove all cards except video. Is your ram up to it?..older fast page and edo hardly made it to 66 buss frequencies without problems, and if it is old ram to boot...it could be causing some problems. The K6-2s were not good overclockers generally anyway. A few ppl have had some success, but most don't. I am running a K6-2 500, and the best I ever got (without trying too hard) was 550 mhz 5.5 X 100fsb @ 2.5 volt core.

[Rottys-R-Us]

Since I chipped the core on my K6 2-500 @ 560, I am using my spare 233 @ 250. Try the FSB @ 100, providing you have PC-100 ram,mult 2.5, c/v 2.9. Good Luck.

[Possessed]

Well, all I can get is corrupted data on system.ini and windows registry (backup files rule!). The best overclock that I must do is t buy a new motherboard, a new CPU, new RAM (lodsa RAM) and a new HDD.

Thanks to everyone that tried to help me.

Oh, and it is a K6, not K6-2, and the core voltage that I said it was autodetected by system BIOS.

[Gunjaa]

why bother, piece o crap like that wouldnt matter if it was runnin at 350mhz it 'd still be just that... a piece of crap

bite the bullet... UPGRADE