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Hi Guys,
What follows is a 4 part (till 3:00am each morning) saga regarding 133fsb and my Duron on the MSI K7T Turbo RAID. I have posted to other spots on the web as well.
I successfully got to 136 x 7.5 earlier on the first day by powering off right after saving multiplier changes in the bios, only to lose that ability the next morning on my first bootup.
Here is the latest attempt at a solution....it works OK.
I had been running back at the 100 FSB speed after my failures to get back to 133fsb mentioned above.
I decided to try and get back to a bootable 7.5 multiplier (whether it be at 100 or 133) I just wanted to see if I could ever get machine to hold at 7.5 again.
I kept bus at 100 fsb and set Duron600 for 9x. I hit F10 to save and rebooted OK..no power off and bleed this time. I did NOT hit F10 and power off immediately as describe in my earlier post. I just did F10 and saw if PC got video sync or not. That is same for what is described below too.
Next I went for 8.5 and saved. Got no video sync after save reboot, so powered off and bled PC by depressing power button with Power strip off. This time machine DID come back at 8.5 x 100.
Next I went down to 8x then finally the desired 7.5x multiplier following exact process mentioned above about powering off and bleeding.......woo hoo I got machine to talk to 7.5 again.
Final step was to change jumper to 133fsb and see if machine came up.....YES success, and once again I am writing this from a PC actually running 7.5 x 136 fsb = 1020MHhz.
I only pray that tomorrow when I turn the PC on again it will come up at 1020 and not fail as it did earlier today.
I don't know if the changing back to 100 fsb and then starting to go down from 9x to 7.5 is really necessary.......If I have to do this again I will try leaving the fsb at 133 and coming down from 9x to 7.5 (if my Duron can handle 9 x133 just to get the wierd process going on way down to 7.5
I would hope that something here can be logically explained and fixed in future bios release. I read something about Hi and Low states of the Durons and maybe my strange procedure somehow switches those states and lets me re-attain the 7.5 multiplier....I'm not sure.
Thx,
Jon
UPDATE:
Have had couple of days of consistent boots at fsb 136 x 7.5 except once when Windows had to restart my machine and then I got "no video sync". I did the Power off and bleed thing. Next boot PC came up as 816 (default multiplier again). I then did another power off bleed and shutdown and then came up correctly at 136fsb X 7.5 = 1020.
So it's working, just not as solid as I'd like.
Thx,
Jon
What follows is a 4 part (till 3:00am each morning) saga regarding 133fsb and my Duron on the MSI K7T Turbo RAID. I have posted to other spots on the web as well.
I successfully got to 136 x 7.5 earlier on the first day by powering off right after saving multiplier changes in the bios, only to lose that ability the next morning on my first bootup.
Here is the latest attempt at a solution....it works OK.
I had been running back at the 100 FSB speed after my failures to get back to 133fsb mentioned above.
I decided to try and get back to a bootable 7.5 multiplier (whether it be at 100 or 133) I just wanted to see if I could ever get machine to hold at 7.5 again.
I kept bus at 100 fsb and set Duron600 for 9x. I hit F10 to save and rebooted OK..no power off and bleed this time. I did NOT hit F10 and power off immediately as describe in my earlier post. I just did F10 and saw if PC got video sync or not. That is same for what is described below too.
Next I went for 8.5 and saved. Got no video sync after save reboot, so powered off and bled PC by depressing power button with Power strip off. This time machine DID come back at 8.5 x 100.
Next I went down to 8x then finally the desired 7.5x multiplier following exact process mentioned above about powering off and bleeding.......woo hoo I got machine to talk to 7.5 again.
Final step was to change jumper to 133fsb and see if machine came up.....YES success, and once again I am writing this from a PC actually running 7.5 x 136 fsb = 1020MHhz.
I only pray that tomorrow when I turn the PC on again it will come up at 1020 and not fail as it did earlier today.
I don't know if the changing back to 100 fsb and then starting to go down from 9x to 7.5 is really necessary.......If I have to do this again I will try leaving the fsb at 133 and coming down from 9x to 7.5 (if my Duron can handle 9 x133 just to get the wierd process going on way down to 7.5
I would hope that something here can be logically explained and fixed in future bios release. I read something about Hi and Low states of the Durons and maybe my strange procedure somehow switches those states and lets me re-attain the 7.5 multiplier....I'm not sure.
Thx,
Jon
UPDATE:
Have had couple of days of consistent boots at fsb 136 x 7.5 except once when Windows had to restart my machine and then I got "no video sync". I did the Power off and bleed thing. Next boot PC came up as 816 (default multiplier again). I then did another power off bleed and shutdown and then came up correctly at 136fsb X 7.5 = 1020.
So it's working, just not as solid as I'd like.
Thx,
Jon