wierd "unstability"

I've never seen this before but maybe someone else has. All I did was raise the multi from 11 to 11.5 and vcore to 1.98v taking me to 2366mhz. It primed for a few hours just dandy. So I get on and I'm working in MAX with this forum open in the background, and winamp playing the "lovage" cd from heavy. (damn good cd btw) All of a sudden the system won't register any mouse clicks, and the screen gets quite a bit brighter. Music's still playing, and then eventually it makes a BEEP noise from the speakers and it totally locks up. Music was still playing until I shut it down. I backed it down to previous settings and its going ok now. I've never seen the bright screen incident before. My 9700pro was at default clock as well. I do remember that when I was moving between 205 and 213fsb with mem in sync, the system crashed and needed a reboot from windows. When I got back in it blamed it on the 9700pro for some reason.

The fsb is too high and the vdd. too low, giving you video errors.

The fsb is only at 205 and vdd is 1.85v.


Ach, this time I was working at normal speeds (11x205) and the monitor lost signal but didn't turn off. I just checked the psu with a voltometer and all the rails read almost perfect while priming and running 3dmark at the same time. (though this did lock the comp up). I wish it would stop pretending to be stable one time and then unstable the next!! It was just fine a few hours ago. I'm going to really stress the memory with memtest again, at these settings and maybe higher.

sounds like u need to lower that overclock!!

try upping your AGP voltage a little.

Thanks for the input guys.


I found in memtest test #10, the corsair pc3200 produces a few errors at 205fsb. The kingston pc3500 checks out. I thought corsair would overclock at least 5 mhz.

Youch.. 5mhz.. wow lol...