? Any Ideas?

[guardtone]

The hardware: 512 MB PC 133 SDRAM, 1-256 Kingston, 1-256 Generic.
MSI K7Turbo,850 Athlon, votages set to: CPU = 1.85 V. and
Northbridge/mainboard at 1.45 V. Using SK-6,
CPU Temp = 105-107 F. Mainboard = 80 F.
ATI radian 32 MB DDR w/stock sink on GPU
300 Watt Power supply.


The problem is I want to overclock my system to 1 gigahertz, but whenever I reach that mark, it is unstable, it will crash, then it won't post when rebooting. The highest it will be stable at is about 960 Mhz. Am I missing something? I thought my mainboard was supposed to be good for overclocking, and I have the very latest VIA 4 in 1 driver set. I also flashed the BIOS w/latest update. I'm running WIN Me. Is there anything I can do to make my system more stable, so it can reach 1 Ghz? I even tried running all my system fans w/ a separate power supply, read somewhere cheap fans can affect a clean pwr signal, but I don't notice a difference. Does anyone know of something I can do to boost stability, to reach 1 Gigahertz? I'm considering a 2 volt hack modification on my mainboard. Any responses greatly appreciated.

[fearless]

It could be a couple of things...Some parts don't like to be o/ced so there's your first place to look. Cheap generic parts usually do not handle running out of spec so if you've upped the FSB (front side bus)that could be the prob. Temps can also affect your o/c but they look to be ok, but I could wrong as I'm not too familiar with temps in F. If your BIOS will allow you to, try to raise the Vcore on your CPU. The reason being is that the more you o/c the more power. I face a similar situation. That's all I can come up with.

Dr.

[guardtone]

thanks for the info, my voltage is at max adjustment, 8.5v. But I'm gonna try to modify my MB to go up to 2 v. If I can find some conductive paint or tape, I'm gonna try to unlock my L1 bridges. I tried soldering them, but my iron tip was just too wide, burned my CPU a little.:eh?:

[Ghaz]

Okay first off, the more voltage the better when trying to reach those high oc's so do that volt mod on your board. If that doesnt help try taking out all generic pieces of hardware that may be old or generally generic. Alot of things could be the bottleneck, from generic ram to a crappy nic or sound card. So try to remove those things and then maybe either decrease the fsb and put it to 1 gig or try to reduce the multiplyer and try to add on some fsb. Good luck

[The Coolest]

U can unlock ur Athlon using penclil or conductive ink pen, that should be much easier to do, w/ a pencil if u miss something, u can earaze and start all over again, worked for me

[guardtone]

Thanks for the replies, appreciate all the info.:burn: