Hi all...
This is my first post. Frankly, I feel like a noob here...you guys are sooooo technical...
I've been following this thread, and the one on the 2100XP on a KT7 with some interest. Anyway, a couple of days ago I decided to try it on my own.
Btw, I have a Abit KT7A-Raid Rev. 1.1. Been running a T'bird 1.33 o/c'ed to 1.51 for the past 2 years or so perfectly stable. Had my ram at 148, cas 2 at one stage (with an earlier T'bird 1 Ghz), then discovered that cheap though ram may be, it gets expensive when you have to change blocks every few months. But during that time, it ran blistering fast...
Anyway, I flashed my bios with OC Master's hacked bios...nice hack, I must say...and everything worked perfectly. Updated the Highpoint driver as recommended, no issues.
Machine ran perfectly, was able to be stable at 1.825 V/3.5 V with my T'bird (previously I could only achieve stability at 1.85 Volts/3.5 V), and the chip ran a couple of degrees cooler. Now, you have to know that I live in the tropics, so my ambient room temps are around 28 C to 32 C. My T'bird always ran at 48 C to 53 C stable with a rare occurrence of 56 C - 59 C during a heat wave. Case temps have always been around 35 C even with 7 fans in a fair configuration with slight negative pressure.
Unfortunately, XP2100's and XP 2400's are all sold out in my part of the world. So the best I could do was an XP 2200 with an AIUHB stepping. Not too bad...stock should be around 1.8 Ghz..., or so I thought...
Followed the methodology as per both the threads, and the chart at the top of this one and got some slightly different results.
I couldn't get the chip to post at anything below 800 (1600). 700 and 750 basically just the sound of my fans ventilating my desk...
All other standard settings worked, but the system refused to boot into Windows at 1000 (2300). It'd get as far as loading the drivers, then rebooted...
I've tested a variety of configurations, including very aggressive settings, very lame settings, memory interleave on/off, mobo driving force at different settings, etc. Still no go.
Manual settings are rather limited...at 17x133, the system hangs on windows. Tested this setting several times with a variety of settings again, still with no luck.
My voltage is maxed at 1.85V...I think it's a power issue. I'm running some third party 450 watt power supply, and with the number of fans and drives it supplies, it may be that I'm just running out of amps.
After about 12 hours straight, I got tired of swopping in my T'bird, and set the system on the stable 1.9 Ghz. Not too shabby, but I'm still a bit dissapointed. In the process, I managed to corrupt my windows drive once...required reinstall...reinstall repair didn't work....
Anyone have any suggestions to make that does not involve the dreary cycle of swapping chips to set the bios? In my country, bios savers are not available...
