My Athlon won't overclock

[JFH]

Hey people,

I'm having trouble for overclocking my machine, my system specs are:

Athlon TBird 1300MHz AXIA (200mhz bus)
K7T Turbo Limited E. motherboard (latest BIOS)
512mb PC133 RAM (occuping the 3 slots)
GeForce 3 Ti500
Audigy Value soundcard
2x Maxtor HDs
External modem
Plextor CD-RW
Pioneer DVD.

You should know that before this, I had an Athlon 650 overclocked to 1GHz, running at 133mhz bus, with exact the same components but the cpu (obviously), and the mobo, I was using an Abit K7A back then.

I recently got a new HSF fan for overclocking, it's the CoolerMaster HCC-002 running with a 7000rpm fan (check it at: http://www.azzo.com/test2/cooling.html) but before installing it, I also tried the pencil trick for unlocking my cpu's multiplier.

So, I installed everything and booted up with no problems.

Now, when trying to overclock... if I select the next multiplier setting (x14), the PC won't POST, with 15x it would run at 550 MHz, you would say the pencil trick hasn't been done correctly but if I select any lower multiplier than 13x, it will run at the correct speed, ex: 11.5x = 1150 MHz

I tried those settings with voltage increments but it wouldn't work either.

After that I tried FSB overclocking, anything above 104 MHz, would make the computer unstable.... 104 * 13 = 1.35 GHz.... not exactly what I call overclocking !!

Any ideas on what could be going on?
Any of you have had experiences with this motherboard and overclocking? I have read everywhere that a AXIA CPU should overclock at least up to 1500 MHz with good cooling.

Any help is appreciated.

[phiber]

I would say that you should redo the bridges because they are probably not really done well even if one multiplier works doesnt mean its good....

[thefly]

Phiber's guess sounds right to me.

I had the same problem. I connected the L1s and ended up with all kinds of problems like you are discribing. I ended up getting defogger paint and doing the bridges this way.

the result was 1 gig axia at 1466. I've backed it off to 1400 to keep the voltage lower.

[Hugo 59]

I've had the same problem with the pencil trick. I highly suggest conductive ink.

[TranceBear]

Have you tried the jumper on the M/B near the AGP slot? This will allow you to go straight to 133mhz FSB and then you can go up from there. I would first try 10x133mhz, this is your stock speed and then try upping the multiplier from there. I did the same thing with my 1ghz chip with a 200mhz FSB.