First time overclock!

thanks for the advice cob

also, should i drop the ht multiplier, as i read that most boards cannot take significant overclocks on it, and mine is at 1050mhz at the moment
 
I would drop it to x4 once you go over 1075mhz.

Tho it wouldn't hurt to drop it now if you will be going over 1075mhz anyway.
 
As Jokester says, try to limit SP2004 load temps to 60c.

SP2004 will heat your CPU more than anything else.
 
ok mate, i think il leave it at 2.73ghz then until i install my coolermaster gemini II , then hopefully I can bump it up to 3ghz :)

should i leave the volts as standard? im not sure what they would do
 
I would leave the volts until SP2004 starts failing. They'll give the CPU a boost, but they'll also raise the temps.
 
ok so i have the overclock bug now :p

using only nvidia control panel overclocking tool, i asked it to find the optimal frequencies.

on my albatron 7950gt 512mb the standard frequencies were 550 on the core clock and 700 on the memory.

nvidia found the optimal to be 600 on the core clock and 800 on the memory. does that sound about right or is nvidia control panel wrong?
 
hey

i have a problem

i overclocked my graphics card but it worked fine and it was stable.

but, i changed the resolution to 200mhz to test it out, but now the screen is black and i cant see anything

i can see bios, and windows load screen and all sounds are on. it loads to desktop, i just cant see anything, i can click on things but cant see what im doing.

how can i change my resolution back to 75?
 
Try selecting Enable VGA Mode from the Safe Mode menu to see if it will let you change the refresh rate to 75mhz when it boots into Windows.

If it doesn't, try uninstalling your graphics drivers, rebooting and then reinstalling them.
 
ok, but i dont know how to get into safe mode.

can you please text me how to do it on 1-800-hot-stud

thank you. otherwise i cant see these forums
 
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yet more problems, and the funny thing is that none of them are overclock related!!

as i said, i changed the resolution to 200mhz to test, little did i know it would poo up my pc. basically, i can now see my desktop again but after uninstalling and reinstalling my nvidia drivers, the network controller has become corrupted and i cant figure out how to correct it.

ive used the motherboard cd and reinstalled the ethernet drivers but its not showing the ethernet and lan connections in network connections.

how do i fix this? thanks in advance
 
It's not ideal, but try a System Restore back to yesterday, before you had the refresh rate problem.
 
tried that already cob, and thanks if it was you who sent me the text :)

atm im on my sisters laptop, and im installing the latest forceware + display drivers on my pc, hoping it works...

it keeps popping up found new hardware 'sm bus controller', is that to do with my ethernet?
 
Yeah it was. You'd best remove your number from that post. It's not too wise to have it posted on the internet.

Is there a yellow warning triangle beside the SM Bus entry in Device Manager?
 
no

i have 2 things with a yellow question mark next to them, network controller and sm bus controller. i think i need to install the drivers for them but i cant find where to get them
 
yeh i managed to find them and i already installed them. it gave me the ethernet driver and sm bus driver, but there is still a question mark next to network controller and i still have no internet connection
 
ok, so i rang bt up and got through. they said that the problem is that there isnt a local area connection icon in network connections.

how do you create a local area connection in xp? by creating this my ethernet adapter will work and assign me an ip address

please help if you can, im getting extremely frustrated
 
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