System problem

sneakyd · 26 Oct 2006 at 15:17

I have a system that I've to have a look at for a friend.

The problem is they have a
2.8E P4 Prescott
Soltek PT880Pro-Fgr
Akasa heatsink (putting a Vantec Stealth on to quiet it down)
1gb Geil PC3200 Dual Kit (2x512mb) in dual channel
250gb Samsung SATAII HD
Hiper 350w PSU.

When the system was built the machine wouldn't boot the prescott. She's asked me if I could have a look.
First I set the FSB to 100 and the cpu/machine boots fine.
Second I set it to 133 and again all boots fine.
When I set it to 200 the pc posts, the irq list etc is displayed but the machine won't boot in to windows (it's XP btw)

Can anyone point me to why this is happening. No more bios releases for this board now, Soltek support was bad.

Thanks

xirokx · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:06

what made you change the FSB when the machine wouldnt boot?

Can you not just "optimized default settings" in the bios? so it will work???

If the machine wouldnt boot after it was built then it had to be some kind of hardware conflict stopping it from booting.....for example the prescott was put it but was the CMOS cleared after?

hmmmm

sneakyd · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:11

I tested it with a p4 willamette and it was fine but each time the prescott was put in it wouldn't boot. The fsb was set to auto detect that's why I started setting the jumpers manually.

xirokx · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:23

If the machine wouldnt boot after it was built then it had to be some kind of hardware conflict stopping it from booting.....for example after putting the prescott in did you clear the CMOS prior to booting?

Im just having serious trouble understanding why it booted when you changed the CPU FSB....lol

sneakyd · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:46

So was I! I'm gonna try changing the memory (even though the Geil stuff should be fine) to single channel or setting it to a lower speed to see if I can get windows to boot.

Don't really want to be sticking another drive to reinstall windows just yet to see if it's that especially as it works on a 133 fsb.

welshtom · 26 Oct 2006 at 16:47

is the mobo prescott compatible?

xirokx · 26 Oct 2006 at 18:52

you could also try booting with just 1 stick of RAM....

clear CMOS for 10mins aswell then try booting....

sneakyd · 27 Oct 2006 at 09:29

The board is Prescott compatible. Not tried just the one stick of Ram yet due to it actually working at 133fsb.

Will have a look at the vcore and the vdimm voltages incase they're not getting enough volts.

Just a bit bemused!