i might of fried my cpu oh no :)

[pogue1000]

Well, i am new to the overclocking world. But thought i would give it a try. I have an asus a7a mb and an athlon 1.2.

I have had it running for over a month. When i first started i could easily set it up to 1400 no problems. Although the temp got hot and i tried to wait off a lil bit till i had better cooling. Well i got me a better heatsink and delta fan and i was in better shape.

Well the last week or so i couldnt even keep it stable at 1200 with no adjustments to FBS or cpu. My memory didnt want to overclock the greatest ever.

Well now it wont boot at all. I can get it to stay up for maybe 5 minutes and it goes down. Then i could wait alil come back and it would work for a lil bit longer. Most 30 minutes. NOw i have nothing. If i mess with the dip switches, take out the battery,, pull out the memory or something once and i while i get it to boot up for a few.. but now.. nothing as i said

now any guesses on what i could of fried
cpu
memory
motherboard

guess i was gonna replace one, and was gonna start at the cpu, i gave it the most wear and tear at first, it was staying around 51 temp at the end... but once a while would spike really quickly for a breif second.

any suggestions

[RedDeathDrinker]

Oh dear....Welcome to the overclocking world.

I fried mine on my first attempt (it was a 166 pushed to 200.......).

If you have some friends with similar gear, try your bits on their bits etc, and see what's gone first..........

[pogue1000]

thanks.
None of my friend are computer geeks :)
Hence why i am here :)

maybe i will find me a cheap duron and test the mb..
boy this is a fun.. yet expensive hobby :)

but i think its great!!!!!!!
and just found this forum tonight.
looks like a nice place to relax

This was my first computer i built, and guess i tore it down to :)

[RedDeathDrinker]

Yeah, we're pretty relaxed around here. Unless we're o/cing something to the max, then it's panic stations.......

It's a nice place to hang out, swap problems and suchlike......

That's the good thing about Socket A. If you blow your T-bird or XP, you can always chuck in a cheap Duron to keep you going.....


If you like seeing how your CPU acts under a constant load, have you thought about running SETI@Home on it?

Mine is on all the time, and I'm running at a sweet 42C core temp just now (must edit my sig.......)

[pogue1000]

yeah i downloaded the seti a few days ago
and i was reading the seti stuff section a few minutes ago.
i was told this was a good way to see how stable my pc is.
i am not really sure what the overall goal of seti is.

i gotta work on my temp
i havent modded my case much, but i have put some minor changes like a slot fan, one of those 2coolpc turbo fans and a Thermalright sk6 heat sink and delta fan.

but still running in low 50's .

from all the cases i see the are bigger towers. guess thats what i need more room maybe.

:)
well guess i can play more when i get me a new cpu.
off to pricewatch ... xp or a 1.4 tb hrmmmm :)