Soyo 7VCA and P3 700

[Jon]

I've been fighting with this thing since Xmas and can't get 933 out of it. Highest I've been able to go is about 840 and it did that right away although it wasn't quite as stable as I would like it, it generally gave me no problems. It did this at the default voltage too, mind you. Now, at 133 it runs default at 1.72V and can only go up by percentage, 10% being the max. This would give me about 1.9V to max out on. I've tried everything. I have a GW FOPK32 fan on it and even though it doesn't cool that great for me, it by no means gets too hot...40C at the very most.

I game quite a bit so I consider this decent burn in and I've used stability test since I've had it in the off-time. I've tried all voltage settings and nothing...no 133 at all.

Rest of my system is as follows:

10X DVD/32X CDROM
52X CDROM
1 WD 15GB ATA66 7200 RPM HD
1 MAXTOR 20GB ATA100 7200 RPM HD (these are in RAID 0 on Win2K)
SoundBlaster X-Gamer
Leadtek GeForce 256 DDR
D-Link 10/100BT LAN card
Old controllerless Rockwell 56K modem (it's not this...was a recent addition)
256MB PC133 Micron RAM

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Civilan]

I've been 'playing around' with my 7VCA2 with Celeron 566E for a week now. I found my problems related to memory. On my board the 3.3v line to the DIMM sockets is only 3.26v, I believe that this is preventing me for acheiving my goals. Finding the correct memory settings was a another challenge. See my reply to your memory settings post.

If you need more voltage than 10% you can also do the VID pinning trick to change the default voltage on the CPU. That's what I had to do to get my Celeron 566 above 850 MHz.

My system can run at 893 with my FSB at 105 but it's unstable. Even running a default my system fails to complete 3DMark2000. I'm using PC133 memory that I've been able to run up to 148 MHz.

Anyway, your problem could be related to not enough core voltage or the voltage to the DIMM sockets.

Good luck.

-Civilan