1.2 AXIA Tbird used to oc

[dr.d]

Exactly-it used to hit 1425mhz and now it won't go past 1212. I have KT7A no Raid mobo, FOP-38, kingmax pc150/256
GF2 GTS 32mb, maxtor 60gb,
Dlink NIC, SBlive, Plextor 12/10/32a, CL 52x, Enermax 350w-PSU. When it gets to the W-98 desktop it freezes. I removed to SB live hoping that did it but nope. All these things worked and I can't pick out what caused it. I have tried wz and yh bios but I don't think that is why. I think it's a windows problem but I can't isolate it. Can anybody here help? I just lost 225 mHz somehow and don't know how.

[dr.d]

No help??? Bummer.

[Hoot]

Is it warmer in your computer room now, than it was when you were getting the higher speed? IE Winter? You did not post your temps with your information.

Hoot

[rc]

Had same with my 750 @ 1008. Turned out to be corrupted Win98 sys files. Try the System File Checker under the Tools menu on System information. If it starts finding a lot of them, cancel out and reinstall windows. I didn't reformat or anything, just ran the setup file in the win98 folder from Start/Run - Browse. Solved my prob Hope it helps. - rc

[David]

what have you changed about your house, PC or anything else around your computer?

[!-=sky=-!]

temp changes make big difference in o/c for me...~
i can reach 750@981 now
but b4 in hot room i get 750@96x

[dr.d]

I have already reinstalled w98se, temps in house should be cooler seeing as the pc is close to an ac vent. I have Sunon 80 mm intake and exhaust, and a Delta 60 mm 38 cfm in the case moving air from intake to cpu area and a 60mm Sunon exhaust. It doesn't reach 90 f very often. I removed the cpu and one L1 bridge looks gray compared to the others which are a silver/gold color. I'm sure sure it was this way when I got, but I don't think so. I think what started this was flashing the bios to YH. So I flashed back to WW which didn't help. Now it has ZT bios. I will try the system file thing and I am also going to put some conductive epoxy on that discolored bridge to see if it does anything. If it never did oc then I would just get a new cpu whenever, but it ran stable at 1425mHz.

[dr.d]

And so the system files aren't the problem. I put oc epoxy on the discolored L1 bridge to see if that might help NOPE. So, it looks loke there is a problem with this chip-it won't go higher than 1210 and it used to do 1425. What fails in the chip that makes that happen? does anyone know? Guess I'll just get a new one.

[Ryan]

Your thermal compound may have dried up or evaporated or your heatsink may have been bumped and has a little air space between it and your cpu. I would suggest taking off the heatsink, cleaning it with alcohol and then reapplying the thermal compound and re-seating it.

[oc jason]

if ya wanna sell it for a reasonanable price email me or icq me

[Kramerica]

I had this same problem after flashing my bios, then flashing it back. For me, it was that I had a CAS2 rating set on my RAM. I pushed it up to CAS3, and got 150 mhz more.