help!!

[billy9x]

Hi latly ive been busy with trying to overclock my k63 400+chip and so far no luck with stability.has anyone had problems such as lockups doing normal stuff even does it refreashing,but games seem stable (maxpayne,age of empires2,counterstrike)etc .
ive checked out all the settings in windows and bios and nothing seems to stop the freezing???I had bios ver Je43333 and due to no luck i flashed it back to ver Je439 which was the stable bios but it still does it??i also picked up 5 bad sectors on my main drive and over 100 on the backup drive arghhhhh!!!:)could this be due to changing voltage settings to try and stable my comp!?its now set at 2.4v but ive had it stable at 2.8??im wondering if i have stressed my psu?its a 230v it was a temp one and i havnt got round to changing it.
my cpu is set at default mhz of 400 but it worked at 448 and 480 but again unstable.(i have no onboard temp reader so i dont know the temps but i have a large fan and heatsink with termal paste on the cpu with another bigger fan on case.)
i have tried almost everything to stop the crashes but nothing can anybody help!!!???:)oh i used a program called pcpit stop to raise my net speed along with altering the reg by putting com port 3(modem)to 115200 not default and i get a download 50k packet at 45kbps which is a big improvement but could it be a prob as ive never had probs before but im knobbed of with the freezes so ill try anything.:)


and yes i know "i told ya so"beware when overclocking!!


specs

via 503+ with bios je439
256mgs ram pc100
savage4 32mg agp card
voodoo2 12mg pci card
10.2gig harddisk
1.5gig backup harddisc
56k pci internet modem
soundblaster live!!
toshiba dvd drive
amd k6 3 400mhz
one cpu heatsink\ fan (speed???)one case fan(speed??)
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[dugans]

Welcome to the Forums!

Whew- did you take a breath while typing all that?!:D

Ok, first of all: have you read the Beginner's Guides on the front page? A lot of good info there.

Second: older K6s don't tend to oc too well to start with.

And Now my suggestions: try getting rid of the program that messed with you registry, see if that helps. If not, install a fresh copy of the os on your drive if possible- you may need something like Partition Commander or something to do so, and you will need free space on the hard drive.

And the bad news: if a clean os install doesn't help, you may have damaged your cpu with the voltage: I burned up one of my K62-450s that way!

The last thing I can think of is a dying hard drive: if the os can't get data because it keeps getting lost by the drive.....
Good Luck!