Strange problem?

[slipd]

Hey guys,

I’ve been steadily overclocking my E2160 over the last four days or so and I’ve now got a 3 GHz (9x333) 10+ Orthos stable cpu

I intend to go that little bit further next week and try to hit 3.2, but for now I’ve got work to do… Anyway, I stopped using my machine at about 4 today and I’ve just got back in and turned it on only for it to go through its little routine it likes to give me when it’s not happy with my bios settings? You switch on, in lights up, goes off, lights up, goes off and then boots but with the cpu back to stock settings (9x200). The rest of my bios settings remain, which is a considerable improvement from my last mobo – if there was a bios problem it was case open, clear cmos etc.

All I had to do was change the cpu/memory timing settings back to manual (from auto) and it was fine – booted straight up? It might have been a one off, but I thought I’d ask here and see if anyone here has had anything similar happen to them – I’m always reassured knowing I’m not on my own

Atm I have 1.375v going through the cpu, 2.1v through the ram (1:1 divider) and +0.01 on the fsb and mch. Do you think the fsb/mch should be raised at all?

Cheers people,

SW.

 

[smithy83]

gigabyte mobo i guess

its normal if it isnt stable on boot up it will shut itself down and reset the cpu settings to defaults

same happened with mine (below) up the vcore and it was fine

 

[slipd]

gigabyte mobo i guess

its normal if it isnt stable on boot up it will shut itself down and reset the cpu settings to defaults

same happened with mine (below) up the vcore and it was fine

Cool!

What do you reckon - try the next 1/2 settings up from 1.375v? Do you think there’s enough juice going through the ram/fsb and mch?

Cheers,

SW.

 

[smithy83]

i think you will proberly have to up the vcore up abit anyway if your going for 3.2

your others seem ok (infact i think ive left my others at there defualts apart from the ram which is at 2.1)

 

[slipd]

It's weird - I shutdown last night but realised after about 10 mins that there was still stuff to do, I turned my machine back on and it was fine? That was still on 1.375v.

This morning, still on 1.37v, I booted up again only to have the same problem

Maybe it worked last night because the computer was still 'warm' - I'm not sure but I've put 1.381v through it now in the hopes of curing this problem. What's the safe voltage limit for this chip btw?

Cheers,

SW.