o/c duron 600 to 800 @ 1.7v

[cowlemon]

I overclocked my 600 duron to 800 @ 1.7v. It runs fine under any applications, including 3dmark 2001. The problem is after the computer has been left on for more than half a day then rebooted, an error is given during the start up. I reformatted and upped the voltage to 1.8 but it does the same thing but a different error is given. Anyone what the problem is? I am running WinXP.

[Kendle666]

how about giving the compete specs for yer system .................Make and Model of yer Mother Board, type and brand of memory,videocard, how big your PS is ...........etc

[cowlemon]

yeah sure.

Duron 600
IWILL KK266
250W PS
Matrox G400 AGP
12X DVD
Kingston 10mb PCI network card
Floppy
a stick of 256mb pc133
a stick of 128mb pc133
(not sure the make of the ram but it wasn't the generic kind)

That's it....

[flounder43]

If you get an error after it has been running for a while, then I would susptect a cooling problem.

The power supply is a possble cause, although I am not sure why that would be affected by rebooting after running...

[Kendle666]

well on the PS side ..............each time ya reboot , that is the time when you havew the greatest draw of power from the PS ..................and with a 250 watt PS (that's the max power rated), ya might just be to lite on the power

[cowlemon]

i also have another computer that's a p3 600e running at 800mhz. it's at 1.65v...only .05v less than the duron. That computer has a cdrw, tv card, etc. and it boots up fine. The PS on that is 250W too. If it's the PS, should that computer have problems booting up too?

[flounder43]

Power supplies differ. Also, you are comparing a celeron to a duron, the duron might be more sensitive to the power supply, in fact, I would bet it is.

[KFB]

can you elaborate on the "error that is given during startup"? i also run XP and i have just noticed that it will tell me "Windows has just recovered from a serious error" when I reboot, but i do not notice anything wrong and the machine and OS run fine. personally i think it is a WinXP bug. maybe it will go away or a patch will fix it, but i don't see any problems right now so i'm not worried about it.

[cowlemon]

it's not that kind of erroor.....it's bsod. can't give u specific cuz i didn't write them down. one had to do w/ not able to access/write to a certain registry. 2nd had to do w/ not being able to load hardware config or something like that.

i just lowered my duron to 750 @ default voltage. i'm gonna run 3dmark2001 all day today and reboot tomorrow to see if i still get a bsod. if i do, i'll post the specific error.

[The Coolest]

It could easily be the power issue, AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs draw much more power than the old P-¡¡¡ so, I would suggest u to try another PSU that is stronger, at least 300W if ur planing to upgrade to a T-Bird/AhlonXP get 400W and higher.

My athlon won't post at 1.85Vcore due to low power, my voltage is never stable, though I think that my old comps PSU is much better the Vcore never changes & is stable as a rock, upto 1.79Vcore all other voltages are stable but & 1.9 the 5V line fluncuates a little, and avg.s at 4.94V.
Try the duron w/ a better PSU, those 600s reached speeds of 1200MHz @ 2.33Vcore. but u could get it to around 1Gig w/ a good PSU & cooling.

Good luck.

Both the PSUs are 300W: 1. on main rig. is dunno the brand, guess its a generic, cause it sux so badly.
2. on secondary rig. its a GYRO PSU, prolly a noname also, but it served me w/ my K6-III for 2.5 years and continues to do a nice job for my Duron.