Strange slowdowns

Bluestreak · Post by **Bluestreak** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 7:39 am

Greetings to all!

Recently bought a computer from a friend with the legendary BP6 motherboard. He in turn got the BP6 as junk for something like $12 (100 Swedish kronor) and exchanged some of the capacitors.
Anyway, the problem is that some two weeks ago the bios-battery died most unexpectedly. Thus losing all the lovely overclocking being done.
Now when i try to return to the old speed 500 MHz, it seems to both calculate the speed wrong and with a fsb of 92 Mhz everything is sluggish to say the least. Not to mention unstable as hell! Any ideas?

Specification:
2 x 366 Celeron (currently @ 458 MHz with 83MHz fsb)
512 Mb Ram
Silicon Image Sil 0680 ATA/133 Controller
Maxtor 40 Gb and 80 Gb Harddrives
SoundBlaster 128
RealTek RTL8139
PointOfView GeForce 2 MX200 32Mb (AGP)
Generic 52 x CD-ROM
Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 8.0

Should be accurate if my memory serves me right...

Post by **Derek** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:15 pm

Did you adjust the voltage settings as well?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:27 pm

you have to up the cpu voltage incrementally in order for the cpu to be able to acheive higher FSB speeds

my 50's @585 are running 2.1V

Bluestreak · Post by **Bluestreak** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:42 pm

Good idea! Ill try it as soon as I can...

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:45 pm

Do make sure you go easy with the increases. More voltage = more heat. Measure temps while you're doing it.

A hot chip can quickly end up as an ex-chip (as in ex-parrot

).

Bluestreak · Post by **Bluestreak** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:05 pm

Increased the core voltage a couple of days ago to 2.05 V and have been running the 366s @ 500 rocksolid ever since. No slowdowns or anything. Not too warm either, both cpus @ 35 - 36 degrees (celsius).

Thanks for the help everyone.
Now, if I can just get a hold of better cooling, I'll try for 550 or even 600 MHz!

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:01 pm

Bravo! Thanx for the feedback!