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- Nov 23, 2001
- Location
- In front of PC...
I have it clear on paper now. My PSU is too weak.
I got my XP1600 + Asus A7V266 a month ago and have spent the entire time working on it. Now 4 days ago, the conductive ink finally arrived (strangely, that stuff is illegal where I live) and I unlocked it. Before, I had it run on 153FSB and 1.6GHZ @ 1.8V, now reducing the multiplier to 10 and increasing the FSB to 160 caused occasional lockups. I increased the Vmem and Vcore and the Lockups rate increased - I was really wondering why, since when I was doing a Burn-In test like BIT, all would work fine with CAS-2 and so on. But when I start up a program, all of a sudden I get bluescreens and all the happy stuff. My Asus PC probe was ringing in the frequency of the processor because of voltage drops - core temp and case temp all were fine, but sometimes the 5V current jump as low as 4.7V and back to 4.8 under load.
Reducing the current on the Vmen and Vcore lead to more system stability, but finally only lower FSB and core speed lead to the square-rock-stability i need to work with.
This lead me to the solution. My Power supply would put out just enough honey to let the system run at full load, but it would not be able to compensate sudden load and idle times. This would result in random reboots, memory errors, calc errors when I would do something.
I have a generic 300W PSU, thought that would be enough since I have an old P2 here running with 235W PSU just fine. I think I'm getting a 450W PS as soon the holydays are over, so I would finally be able to break that 1.6 giga and the 160FSB barrier I have until now. But I hear that even with an Enermax I would get only 4.8 or so at my 5V line, and Enermax and "Generic" seem to be the only kinds of PSU I can get here...
Suggestions?
I got my XP1600 + Asus A7V266 a month ago and have spent the entire time working on it. Now 4 days ago, the conductive ink finally arrived (strangely, that stuff is illegal where I live) and I unlocked it. Before, I had it run on 153FSB and 1.6GHZ @ 1.8V, now reducing the multiplier to 10 and increasing the FSB to 160 caused occasional lockups. I increased the Vmem and Vcore and the Lockups rate increased - I was really wondering why, since when I was doing a Burn-In test like BIT, all would work fine with CAS-2 and so on. But when I start up a program, all of a sudden I get bluescreens and all the happy stuff. My Asus PC probe was ringing in the frequency of the processor because of voltage drops - core temp and case temp all were fine, but sometimes the 5V current jump as low as 4.7V and back to 4.8 under load.
Reducing the current on the Vmen and Vcore lead to more system stability, but finally only lower FSB and core speed lead to the square-rock-stability i need to work with.
This lead me to the solution. My Power supply would put out just enough honey to let the system run at full load, but it would not be able to compensate sudden load and idle times. This would result in random reboots, memory errors, calc errors when I would do something.
I have a generic 300W PSU, thought that would be enough since I have an old P2 here running with 235W PSU just fine. I think I'm getting a 450W PS as soon the holydays are over, so I would finally be able to break that 1.6 giga and the 160FSB barrier I have until now. But I hear that even with an Enermax I would get only 4.8 or so at my 5V line, and Enermax and "Generic" seem to be the only kinds of PSU I can get here...
Suggestions?