Lead Head's Hardware trouble thread

[Lead Head]

Since this guide relfects real-world events, I will post a pretty little picture to show what i have to deal with!



Basicly my system crashed like crazy at the stock speeds and gets more stable with every FSB decrease, i found this out, winXP is more prone to crashing at a given clock speed then win2k.

Specs, AXP1700
768MB PC3200 Kingston Value ram
x800 pro
Soyo Sy-K7ADA v1.0
80GB Hd
other stuff

[simple_inhibition]

hmm what are your temps at when its set to stock speed? also hows the cooling in your case? and what power supply do you have?

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by simple_inhibition

hmm what are your temps at when its set to stock speed? also hows the cooling in your case? and what power supply do you have?

Case is all open, temps are fine, voltages are fine to

[gvblake22]

I still don't see why you have created a chart (with no axes, axis labels, or title) to show a single set of numbers. What is the X-axis supposed to represent? How does this show overclocking differences between WinXP and Win2k?

[Tyreal]

If you are trying to show something with a graph, use excel to make one. Don't use paint. What you have created does not show us anything.
If you don't know how to make it in excel, we can help you.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by Tyreal

If you are trying to show something with a graph, use excel to make one. Don't use paint. What you have created does not show us anything.
If you don't know how to make it in excel, we can help you.

Its supposed to show, that at stock speeds this rig is not even stable, at 50% below stock, its nearly stable. What I am asking is, what could cause my rig to become so unstable

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

Its supposed to show, that at stock speeds this rig is not even stable, at 50% below stock, its nearly stable. What I am asking is, what could cause my rig to become so unstable

OH
Well, making the bar graph was really just throwing me off. And the fact that you titled the thread as a "guide" conealed the fact you were looking for help/advice.
As far as your question about instability, it really comes down to the basics of overclocking. If your overclock is unstable, then there are several things to check/change to regain stability...

• Increase CPU voltage
• Increase RAM voltage
• Increase chipset voltage
• Get better cooling (if temps are out of control)
• Change RAM timings and/or speed with a divider (if your RAM is a bottleneck)
• Make sure your PSU is powerful enough and the voltage rails are stable
• Test at stock speeds to make sure everything in your system is playing nice
• Reformat and reinstall the OS (system files might have gotten corrupted from instability) (a last resort)

[Tyreal]

Sorry about that. I didn't understand either.
Blake pretty much covered just about everything that could be going wrong.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

OH
Well, making the bar graph was really just throwing me off. And the fact that you titled the thread as a "guide" conealed the fact you were looking for help/advice.
As far as your question about instability, it really comes down to the basics of overclocking. If your overclock is unstable, then there are several things to check/change to regain stability...

• Increase CPU voltage
• Increase RAM voltage
• Increase chipset voltage
• Get better cooling (if temps are out of control)
• Change RAM timings and/or speed with a divider (if your RAM is a bottleneck)
• Make sure your PSU is powerful enough and the voltage rails are stable
• Test at stock speeds to make sure everything in your system is playing nice
• Reformat and reinstall the OS (system files might have gotten corrupted from instability) (a last resort)

No nono!

I explain
I have an AMD Athlon XP 1700, Acording to AMD's tech docs, it stock speeds is 1466Mhz aprox. Now, it was stable fore a few weeks, then it started randomly crashing, i reinstalled teh OS many times, still no help, I downclocked the CPU to 1100Mhz aprox, It helped for about 30 minutes then it became ubstable, then I lowered it to the absolute lowest the mobo supports, 733Mhz, it was stable all last night, now its starting to lose stability, again. Rams not a factor because its rated at200(400)Mhz and its running at 66(133) Mhz

[gvblake22]

OH! Ok, I gotchya. I would check your PSU, maybe it's going bad. Are your temperatures in check?