Help Help!!! Overclocking Noob in distress

wolvotim · 5 Jan 2007 at 18:22

TomL said:
You need to format the floppy disk first as a MSDOS boot disk, then install Memtest+ onto it.

ahh i just formated the floppy then installed memtest onto it

footman · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:35

TomL said:
You need to format the floppy disk first as a MSDOS boot disk, then install Memtest+ onto it.

Thats odd, Ive just done a 24 hour memtest and simply formatted a floppy and extracted memtest onto it.

TomL · 5 Jan 2007 at 23:13

footman said:
Thats odd, Ive just done a 24 hour memtest and simply formatted a floppy and extracted memtest onto it.

Very odd.

phill9800 · 5 Jan 2007 at 23:22

What would be the maximum Vcore to use on a CPU then? I'm having to use 1.525v to get 9x401 with my E6600... Temps are too high because of the retail heatsink so I wont be putting a full load to test stability....

When I upgrade tho

wolvotim · 5 Jan 2007 at 23:59

I can get it to boot into windows at 3.24ghz(9x360) at 1.38v no problem now. But it just will not run orthos with out throwing up errors.

What voltages are you guys running??

im running

Processor: 1.38
Memory: +0.3
MCH: +0.1
FBS: +0.1

00NukE · 6 Jan 2007 at 09:53

Cpu 1.38v and mem is set to 3.25v in bios Orthos would fail on my system until I gave the mem some more power.

P.S. all other voltages are set to default.
sorry 2.35v my fat fingers

w3bbo · 6 Jan 2007 at 10:16

3.25v on memory? Are you sure?? :eek:

wolvotim · 6 Jan 2007 at 12:05

00NukE said:
Cpu 1.38v and mem is set to 3.25v in bios Orthos would fail on my system until I gave the mem some more power.

P.S. all other voltages are set to default.

3.25???

mines only at 2.1 and thats the max geil say it goes up to

Jokester · 6 Jan 2007 at 12:07

footman said:
Thats odd, Ive just done a 24 hour memtest and simply formatted a floppy and extracted memtest onto it.

Yeah that's all you need to do, the extraction program basically makes the disk bootable for you.

Jokester

phill9800 · 6 Jan 2007 at 12:17

I never managed to get memtest to work properly... came up with the same the gents did in the black screen rather than having the blue memtest screen... Something not right there...

TomL · 6 Jan 2007 at 12:25

Jokester said:
Yeah that's all you need to do, the extraction program basically makes the disk bootable for you.

Jokester

I am talking about Memtest+ here, and it didn't make the disk bootable for me.

phill9800 · 6 Jan 2007 at 12:29

Would someone mind giving us a link to the program and 'install instructions' at all please??

Jokester · 6 Jan 2007 at 12:49

Memtest86

Jokester

wolvotim · 6 Jan 2007 at 12:51

Jokester said:
Memtest86

Jokester

thats what i used and just ended up with this screen

phill9800 · 6 Jan 2007 at 13:00

Just downloaded it, need to put together my AM2 rig before I can test the program, thanks for that

TomL · 6 Jan 2007 at 17:21

Jokester said:
Memtest86

Jokester

I used that before I used Memtest86+, a more recent program, and it found no errors whereas Memtest+ did.

Jokester · 6 Jan 2007 at 17:22

TomL said:
I used that before I used Memtest86+, a more recent program, and it found no errors whereas Memtest+ did.

That's why I recommend Windows Memtest.

Jokester

Dirk · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:43

Have you tried different BIOS for your board? The latest one isn't always the best depending on RAM compatability.
Make sure you are confident with the process of flashing your BIOS before starting.