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pmoores
06-06-01, 01:10 PM
After feeling cocky after my first successful overclock bringing a 1200 to 1400, i thought id up the fsb slightly. The problem is when i rebooted video stayed dead. Rebooting more then once had to effect so in a state of shock i let the computer sit for about 15 mins. Rebooted again and was able to access the bios and bring it back to that last stable settings.

During this time from what i could see, the temperature was no where near danger levels,,, low-mid 40's c max., and given the jump i made from stable was only a few mhz. Needless to say, after my prayers were answered what do i do? I reset it to the earlier setting and sure enough does it again hehe. At that point i DID start to notice a pattern developing.

If since dropped the board back from 1400 to 10x136 for the time being. I was getting a rare reboot in win2000k at 1400 but from what i understand my 300 watt power supply might not be cutting it. (ill purchase a 400watt on the 15th).

Any ideals why just video would fail?



axia 1200
512megs 133mhz ram
old matrox marvel g200
sblive
nic card
one isa and one pci modem
3 harddrives 60/20/12gigs

UnseenMenace
06-06-01, 01:24 PM
Your video may fail if you are running an exceptionally fast FSB

n2
06-06-01, 01:25 PM
most likely the matrox won't run on that fsb...
alot of old vid cards are sensitive to raising the fsb...and possibly the HDD or even the mobo could be causing the problem.
i'm kinda surprised you're running at 133 actually.
i'm not likely to expect the psu will make any difference for you.

n2
06-06-01, 01:30 PM
i believe it's proper to say...

the video fails to "initialize"

the mobo has a role in this too, as that is what initializes it.
i would'nt necessarily blame the vid card on this one...
you could go buy a Radeon of a Gforce... and have the exact same problem.

Rob Cork
06-06-01, 02:36 PM
I've noticed with the 1004d bios I'm running on my A7V, if I try to change the fsb from anything other than 100MHz then when I press reset or the atx button I'll hear fans spinning and the hdd power up, but the video won't initialize. So I'm stuck to running at 100MHz fsb. This seems to be a bios issue because 1007 allows me to change the fsb settings, but not vcore (hence I use 1004d).

Like n2 says it could probably be a mobo problem then, and maybe a change of bios would solve it, as it does for me (though I then have other problems with the new bios :( ). Might be worth giving it a go and seeing what happens.