- Joined
- Jan 15, 2001
- Location
- Denver, CO
I've got a system problem that I'm trying to nail down, and I'm worried that my cpu may be burning out from the voltage and overclock it's been handling. I've got a 2.2 and I've been running it at 129FSB for 2838MHz using approx 1.87-1.9 volts, cooled with a swiftech water block. My motherboard is an Abit TH7II. It has run this way for a couple of months. This morning I walked in the office to find it stuck on a BSOD. I figured maybe it was a hiccup so I reset it, and upon starting windows it gave it to me again - K mode exception not handled. So I reset and went into the bios and checked temps and voltages. All looked as usual. I suspected my ram could be going bad too, since I'm using a volt mod to run the rdram at 2.7 volts. I dropped it back to 3X so it was running below spec, and I still got the BSOD. Hmm, okay so it's not ram apparently. So I dropped the entire system back to default speed and it booted fine. I rebooted and tried to take it back up to 129 - no go. So from there I started dropping the FSB in 1MHz steps until I could boot windows. I ended up at 120. I suppose my power supply could be dying, or even something on the motherboard. I can't think of any great ways to test those possibilities. I don't have any extra parts. All I know is for 2 months it has been running along happily at 2838, and now I can't boot windows any faster than 2640. Maybe I should sell the chip on Ebay and pick up a new 2.4. If I still have problems I'll get a new PSU. If that fails I could get a new board. Any suggestions?