Is it necessary to connect the L1 bridges with a pencil or conductive ink?

[eustace]

Hi my name is Mike and I wanted to know if you perhaps have some answers for my problem I have an athlon 1.2 Gig (760) model with asus A7V-133 (via Kt-133a) chipset with 512 Mb of high quality PC-133 (Samsung) memory with a 350 watt power supply, I bought these components as I was told it would be the easiest to over clock (and with this latest Athlon I would not have to fiddle with the L1 Bridge) well my system will not go past 1.24Ghz????? And I have tried all the possible combinations in the bios??? Any thing with a clock multiplier of 9.5 or more gives me no usb support or windows protection errors if I try FSB overclocking I cant go past 137 X 9.0???? Maybe there is some thing I am overlooking...well any help you can give me would be appreciated

Thank you

[Ferg]

I think that you have two possible problems. First, Have you have changed the voltages past what they were set at the factory? The Vcore can be safely set at 1.85 volts as long as you get a good hsf. I like to keep the VIO around 3.7 though because im not sure if it is safe to run it at the max (3.9 on my abit board). It could also be becuas you didnt get a very good stepping code. You can check to see if that is try by reading this article from Athlon OC (http://www.athlonoc.com/stepping1.php). It should explain it well enough.

Happy Overclocking!!!

[eustace]

I have alredy fiddled with all that and no luck BTW i have a reasonably good cooler the Thermaltake super orb i just find it starnge that if in my bios my multiplyer icrements go all the way to 12.5 and no restrictions on my fsb its strange that i cant get more than 40 more Mhz

Damn Athlons

[SleepyKat]

eustace (Jun 23, 2001 08:06 p.m.):
I have alredy fiddled with all that and no luck BTW i have a reasonably good cooler the Thermaltake super orb i just find it starnge that if in my bios my multiplyer icrements go all the way to 12.5 and no restrictions on my fsb its strange that i cant get more than 40 more Mhz

Damn Athlons
I see a few possible problem. The super orb will not be able to cool your cpu past 1.3 if even that..and if you used the thermal tape provided then that makes it worst for heat transfer. If your L1 is unlocked then you should at least be able to go to 1.4. Even if you see the bridges linked on your L1, verify under a magnifier that it is indeed connected. AMD uses a laser to break the L1 bridges. You wouldn't by chance written you chip code down to tell us?

1@1.4, 136x10.5, Vc=1.7

[eustace]

No I did not see the # but if it were locked then would not the settings(multiplyer) be shaded out in the bios and I would not have access to the multiplyer? on another note I noticed using the Asus probe utility that while i am only overclocked @ 40 Mhz above the rated 1.2 Ghz my processor is running @ 65degrees C then if I go back to my rated speed of 1.2 it shows 60 degrees celcius?? at the touch the heatsink/fan is not that hot???

my current bios setting is

9.0 X 137 @ 1.60v and i cant get anything past that I have tried lower FSB with a higher Multiplyer but I can never get any thing past 1.279 Ghz

[Goldwing]

Asus Probe is not the most reliable device to measure temps. Boot to bios after checking temps with Asus Probe and check the temps in the bios they are probably 8-10 degrees C high. I use Motherboard Monitor ( http://www.tweakfiles.com/diagnostic/motherboardmonitor.html ) on mine and they match the bios.

[tweeknfreek]

first off dump the orb!!!! I used superorb for several months and after reading alot about other hsf I realized the orb was NOT a good cooler my temps stayed around 46 to 51c and it would climb to 54c at 100% load I switched to the new vantec w/Delta fan and good intake fan and now cpu temp wont climb over 43c under max load and runs 38c at idle almost 10c better than orb!!!!!!!! and as far as I know you always have to close L1 and increase voltage to get good oclock I had a Duron 800 at 1030mhz w/1.88 core voltage and L1 closed

[SleepyKat]

eustace (Jun 23, 2001 09:25 p.m.):
No I did not see the # but if it were locked then would not the settings(multiplyer) be shaded out in the bios and I would not have access to the multiplyer? on another note I noticed using the Asus probe utility that while i am only overclocked @ 40 Mhz above the rated 1.2 Ghz my processor is running @ 65degrees C then if I go back to my rated speed of 1.2 it shows 60 degrees celcius?? at the touch the heatsink/fan is not that hot???

my current bios setting is

9.0 X 137 @ 1.60v and i cant get anything past that I have tried lower FSB with a higher Multiplyer but I can never get any thing past 1.279 Ghz

The multiplier and FSB would not be shaded out. I had the very exact same problem that you described. I thought I could O/C the multiplier because it was visible in the BIOS and after a quick research, I verified that my L1 was not unlocked although the bridge looked intact, under magnification it was not. As for touching the HS, please watch out for the fan blades. The HSF should not be hot just a bit warm. Heat dissippation is the key factor.

[AtomicGuY]

just use a pencil, a good Venus pencil.

[hetman]

i have to say that im in the same boat. i have an athlon 1gig, a7v mobo and i was foolish enough to pick up the super orb. i found that it super sucks. i also have 3 hard drives, so the damn thing was quite warm, with panels off i had 52 for the cpu and 31 for the mobo. i went to pick up a vantec 6030d hsf, not the best but darn good and cheap and arctic silver 2, now i have 44 for the cpu and 27 for the mobo. i forgot to mention that its overclocked to 1165 using the pencil trick and a multiplier (111 x 10.5). so the system works well now. the pencil trick is really easy. just draw a few lines. have fun.