PIV 1.8A and voltage on a P4S333

[Schlotkins]

Hi there-

I have a 1.8A and a P4S333 motherboard. I've got it running at 2.2ish on 1.6volts right now. Looks like I'm going to need 1.75 or so to get it complete stable at 2.4gig. My problem is that the P4S333 will only let me go up to 1.7volts in the BIOS... is there any way around this?

Any help is appreciated!

[Yodums]

Eventually there will be a vidpin made up I'm guessing or another bios will allow more...

Yodums

[Anonicle]

Vidpin is already done, connect pins 3+4 for 1.7v default. http://www2.justnet.ne.jp/~kiti/Paso/00pen4-3/northwood01.htm

[DaNut]

Originally posted by Schlotkins
Hi there-

I have a 1.8A and a P4S333 motherboard. I've got it running at 2.2ish on 1.6volts right now. Looks like I'm going to need 1.75 or so to get it complete stable at 2.4gig. My problem is that the P4S333 will only let me go up to 1.7volts in the BIOS... is there any way around this?

Any help is appreciated!

We have been playing with ASUS P4S333 & P4 1.6A, and running stable at 2.4GHz+. :D Perhaps I have a goofy board, but it seems like if I bump up the voltage & FSB, after few reboots, the "default" core voltage goes up. It gave me option to juice the CPU up to 1.8v without pin mods. I had to clear the CMOS, to get it back down to default 1.5v. I am not complaining, if it gives me 50% overclocking; like good old Celeron 300As!

[Yodums]

Wow DaNut your the "PCNut?" Before when I came to the website I visited your website for some Wn9x tweaking and cable tweaking :D

Yodums

[Schlotkins]

I had the same behavior, but then I couldn't get it back. I flashed my bios to the last version, as the 1001 version that came with the board seemed rather shaddy.

I took off the original heat pad that was on the stock heatsink and put some artic II paste on there. I'm running at 2400 mhz now at 1.7v. This beast is FAST and has passed all my testing so far....

Thanks for the help - I'll use that pin out trick if I end up needing to put this up to 1.75 volts.

[TC]

Strange - I had a P4S333 a couple weeks ago and it let me take my 1.8A up to 1.75 volts with the 1001 bios. I finally settled at 2.4 with 1.65 volts - then I dumped the board LOL.

[Schlotkins]

LOL - What board did you end up going to?

Well, this is probably MY fault BUT, check this out:

I'm running SCSI for my main drive and I have a bunch of old IDE drives I was going to run for data.. So, when I setup XP, I had a 9gig IDE (blank), a 18gig SCSI (blank), and an IDE CD setup. For the bootup options, I had Floppy, then IDE HD, then CD, then SCSI device. So, I install XP (C ended up being the IDE and D ended up being the SCSI) and it turns out the IDE drive was losing sectors. So, I rip it out of the machine and then XP won't boot - most likely because now the SCSI drive is C. So, I put another old drive in there, boot up and LINUX starts coming up. Go back into bios, take the IDE HD off the bootup list, and XP wouldn't load again. Looks like the machine put the SCSI as C and the IDE as D because the IDE wasn't specified as a bootup option. So, I had to put the old drive in there again...

Do all MB setups work like this? Something in XP? I didn't have any problems like this with my old K7V board and NT... :)