HELP please

[Wicked Klown]

ok today i was able to post at 1066 and 1000 but it wouldn't boot to windows it said something bout windows error. i also hit 960 once then it locked up with under a min. i was never able to hit it again. i'm running windows 98 s.e. a radeon 32 m.b. sdram video card a sound blaster live mp3+ sound card a western digital 60 gig as my master and a western digital 20 gig as my slave both are ata 100 and 5400 r.p.m. i have two sticks of pc133 512m.b. ram. what could be the prob and how can i fix it. my MoBo is an aopen ax34 pro II.:mad:

[Placid]

What chipset does that board use?
What cpu are you using?
Have you tried with only 1 stick of memory?

[Wicked Klown]

The chip set is an VIA Apollo PRO 133A with a pure aluminum heat sink. The CPU is an Celeron 2 800 MHz. And yes I did try one stick of ram.

[Placid]

Make sure your soundblaster is not sharing a irq and disable sb16 emulation.
Not sure where you board will switch from 1/3 to 1/4 pci bus but usually around 124fsb so try to keep it at that or above rather than 120-123.
How much voltage are you using on the cpu?
What are your memory timings? 3-3-3 would be best until you get it stable.

[Wicked Klown]

how can i find out if its sharing a irq and how do i disable sb16. and Vcore was 1.70 , 1.75 , 1.80 , 1.85 and even 1.90 and whats 3-3-3 mean.

[Placid]

Dram read latch to highest number. sdram to 3 and the other setting to medium.

Run msinfo32.exe and look in the hardware section for irq's.

Go onto system from the control panel in windows and look in device manager to find the sb 16 emulation.
It should be under creative devices.

[Wicked Klown]

i disabled the sb 16 and yes the soundblaster is sharing an irq all i have to do to fix that is move it to a diff pci right.

[Placid]

Yes, its ok if it shares with irq steering but not another device.

[Wicked Klown]

it`s sharing with the steering. so what could be the prob.

[Placid]

I need to get some sleep.
What stepping is your cpu?
If you dont know go to www.cpuid.com and download cpuz.
Knowing this will help with about how high you cpu should be able to go.
You can look in the cpu database to find this out.
Someone else should come along and be able to help you more if you need it.

Goodluck.

If its only steering thats ok.

[Wicked Klown]

I don't know if this is the stepping but it`s a cCo