little help? XP 1600+ @ 1540

[nuclearsnake]

Yeah, so I'm new to AMD overclocking, thanks to everyone who have helped so far. :)

At the moment I am running my 1600+ @ 1540 (11x140) with a core voltage of 1.85. I "unlocked" my CPU the other day, but it seemed to relock at 11x. The glue I used to fill the pits was normal white glue. Connected the L1 bridges w/ window defogger. When I try to push it past 141 bus my system locks up and/or reboots. I have jumpers on my mobo (Gigabyte GA-7DXR) that let me increase the voltage on my ram (256MB Micron Technology). I was able to get my ram up to 150 when the multiplier was at 7x. My question is this: Would razing the voltage on the RAM help in overclocking the system further? And how dangerous is that?

[RoskO (_!_)]

You can try raising the voltage on the memory. you may want to try raising it on the chip a little first to see if that works. If that doesn't do anything, then try the memory. If that doesn't work, try both at the same time. I wouldn't push it too far. I have an XP1600 that I had unlocked also, doing the same thing you did. Then it started only letting me choose certain multipliers. Then it just acted up all together.
I think the superglue didn't fill as good as it should have and it was grounding in the laser holes somehow. I would just leave it at 1540 if I were you, but that's my own preference. I ran my xp at 1540 for a while, but I must have messed with it too much and now when I unlock it I can't choose all the xpliers. I just run it at default now. My advice, take what you got and be happy. If raising the voltage doesn't work for you I would just leave it at 1540. I don't think raising the voltage should hurt anything on the ram or cpu. I tried mine at the highest voltage on both ram/cpu at one point and it didn't affect it at all. Good luck, and let us know what you do.