Probs running at 10.5+x133

[Tacoman667]

Here's the deal. I run at 10x133 fine and 10x140 fine also. I have generic memory in now but I have a stick of 256meg CAS2 PC133 crucial memory on the way from crucial.com. My L1's are connected with conductive ink and I do have watercooling so heat is NOT the problem on my CPU or chipset. I have a 350W Enermax PSU and thinking to go up a notch to 431W Enermax soon. But, when I go into my BIOS I set my multiplier to 10.5 and I will lock up RIGHT AFTER WinME loads up. I change my K7 CTL_CLK from default to optimal in my BIOS then set it to 10.5 and I am ok in WinME after boot. Now here's the puzzler though. Last night I did this and ran 3DMark2000 and it ran fine. Then I went into IE and was checking out this board and my system seemed to slow down to a lockup. I rebooted and my system wouldn't go past post. It posted but froze on the memory check screen. I turned off my system and about 30 seconds later it started itself back up by itself. No kidding. I then let it boot into WinMe again and I had registry errors out the ass so I powered down again and it started itself up by itself once again. I flipped the switch on my PSU and all was well for about 5 minutes. I turned it back on, pressed power, and booted off floppy to run scanreg and fixed windows. I am back to 10x133 now but have never seen this before. Can ANYONE give me insight on what this could be? I am leaning towards the PSU and I got memory on the way to check that out. And why the hell would it boot all by itself??

[Hoot]

I don't have a clue, but it sure sounds creepy. Makes one want to get some kind of firewall program. I would clear the cmos and re-enter my parameters, just to be safe. Then I would run wither McAffee or Norton virus scan. It could be just a fluke, but seems a little too coincidental.

Hoot

[UnseenMenace]

I know that exact problem, with windows shutting down and restarting, however I dont know what causes it, however when stripping down WinME with WinME Lite ( http://www.98lite.net ) something changed, and the problem stopped. I do however now get WinMe appear to shut down correctly but not turn off my PC, which I believe is the last effects of what is happening to you.. it appears whatever makes it restart I have removed, but thats as much as I know.. I had a post on this subject which might be of use to you... If you discover what causes and a cure let me know :)

http://forums.overclockers.ws/forums/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=17&TID=2707&SID=59659

[Tacoman667]

Hoot (May 27, 2001 11:07 a.m.):
I don't have a clue, but it sure sounds creepy. Makes one want to get some kind of firewall program. I would clear the cmos and re-enter my parameters, just to be safe. Then I would run wither McAffee or Norton virus scan. It could be just a fluke, but seems a little too coincidental.

Hoot

My LAN card is linksys with the WakeOnLAN totally disabled, so there is no way that anyone from the outside could get in if the system wasn't on.