Overclocking P4 Prescott 3.2 on ECS 865PE-A

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Overclocking P4 Prescott 3.2 on ECS 865PE-A

I know I should be able to overclock this cpu, and the ECS website says the 865PE-A is good to overclock, but as soon as I step up from 200mhz to even 203/205 the pc hangs on boot, and I have to clear cmos to reset :\

It hangs before detecting my hard drives, of which I have 2 SATA and 1 IDE HDD (also 1 IDE DVDRW).

Any ideas? Thanks.
 
Having had a quick look around on the web it would apprear that this board is not as much of an overclocker as ECS would have you believe.

What memory are you running? With what timings and at what frequency are you running it?

If you really want to get somewhere with that chip you might consider a new mobo.
 
Of course go through the basics. Be sure your BIOS its up to date. Be sure your PCI and AGP buses are locked at 33 MHz and 66 MHz respectively. Be sure everything has enough volts to keep it happy.
 
Hi,

Well, having had a 30-second flick through the manual (downloaded from the ECS website) I would suggest the following;

Under Advanced Chipset Features;

1. Underclock the RAM by selecting DDR333 For the "Memory Frequency For" feature

2. Set "Fast Chip Select" to Disable

3. Set "Turbo Mode" to Disable


Under Frequency Control;

1. Set "Spread Spectrum" to Disable

2. Set "Async AGP/PCI/SATA CLK" to something other than Sync, but the manual doesn't say what the options are so you if you could post those it might be possible to suggest something.

Those would be the main BIOS things that might hold you back.

Please let us know if you get anywhere.
 
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First of all you need to find your cpus max clock...

to be able to achieve that make sure youre running 5/4 your ram frequency....start upping your cpus fsb, makins sure your vtt vcore vagp voltages are fine and increase them each time you find a wall..

as soon as you find your cpus max then turn the mem divider to 1:1 so then you can find your rams frequency...


perhaps your mobo doensnt like your ram timings while trying to overclock...have a look into that too...

happy clocking :)
 
WJA96 said:
I think he's found it's 204FSB so far, which is why he's posting here. :D
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then he should try his max underclocking :D

@ just 204 fsb...prolly his ram-board is maxxed out or is the mouse? :p


let us know buddy how you get on.
 
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