Overclocking a 3.2C with a SOYO DRAGON

[loks]

anybody got any suggestions when it comes to this motherboard? its the BLACK version 1.0. im new at overclocking and i dont want to screw anything up. i have a JET 4 Turbine.

[Vio1]

you have in your sig a Abit IC7? why the soyo dragon?

[Achilles17]

PLEASE, for the love of GOD, do not use "soyo" and "overclock" in the same sentence. the two just do not go together at ALL. dont bother OCing, i had a soyo before, and i couldnt bring my 2.4B to 2.5.

[CircuitBreaker8]

Its true^^

[loks]

i was told that the SOYO DRAGON is the best MOBO for OCing. Is that true? and i had to send out my IC7MAX3 out to abit for repair. it shut down and didnt power up anymore.

[Condorstrike]

You having bad experience withSoyo doen't mean that all are bad.
I have a sy-p4i865peplus dragon2 with a Pentium 2.4 and I've overclocked it with 2100 memory at 2.9Ghz at 45-degrees on stock voltage so imagine when I get mushkins dual-channels 3200's. :burn:
And so far I haven't had anyproblems whatsoever with overclocking or bios settings. I say good for you loks

[loks]

but i dont want to install windows again. i got too much stuff on my HD!!!!! it doesnt give me the option to leave my file system intact!!!!

[Condorstrike]

And that's why you should have more than 1 partiton "if you don't already"
I personally keep 10-15gigs for windows and save the rest of my programs to other partitions or drives that way you can reinstall with minimal risks and headecks.
and also if you have a copy of your xp cd you can repair windows instead of intalling everything and that will take care of the bogus lisence and hardware checkup errors.

[loks]

i did try to repair but i keep getting that damn BLUE screen giving me the raid error!!!!!

[Tyrinon]

Ouch. I have a few soyo p4x400's and they suck for o/c'ing (btw, I bought these b4 I was interested in o/c'ing...). I wasn't able to get over 310 mhz stable o/c on either board using different cpu's. I was pushing the pci above 37mhz and started getting bsod's and data loss, etc. With no/small o/c's these boards are ok.

As for your raid error... sorry, but I'm fairly certain that when you replace your mobo that you will have to reinstall windows again. If you had a single ata drive you could get away with swapping a mobo w/o reinstalling windows by selecting the standard pci ide controller and doing a safe mode restart with the new mobo to install it's drivers (at least for winxp..). I'm not running raid so this worked for me.

Your last post has been a few days, but I wish you luck none the less. :)

[loks]

i had to reinstall windows and it sucked a**!!!! i hate this crap! either way im up and running again!!! Thanks for the help though.