I'm going to try to keep this short, because I'm hoping there's a simple solution, but I'll give you a rundown of what's happening:
Basically, I can't seem to overclock my 3000 winchester, and I have no clue why. As stated I have a DFI Ultra-D, and a gigabyte of this ram. It is running perfectly at stock speeds...2-3-2-5 1T @ DDR400. I have a 485 watt enermax noise taker PSU, and all of the plugs are in the motherboard properly. The only video card I'm running is a single 6600GT
My problem is that when I raise the FSB past about 215 I get this error:
windows did not start, because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\windows\system32\config\system
I've tried just about everything I can think of too. I've lowered the multiplier to like...6, LDT/FSB ratio to 4, loosened the timings, and raised the voltages slightly, updated the BIOS, and nothing has helped. The PCI-E is locked at 100 Mhz. I am running water cooling on my cpu and video card currently, and the core is at a chilly 21 degrees. The Chipset is at 45 right now, but the fan doesn't kick into high by default until 55, and it's never gone that high. Even below the 215, at say...210 FSB, I'm experiencing some stability problems.
Now, I am a fairly experienced overclocker with an athlon XP system, but this is my first experience with an A64. I picked DFI, the proc, and this RAM, because they were reviewed to be good overclockers. I really don't think it's any of them either (although I could be wrong).
Now, I am running Windows on a Western Digital 80GB 8MB cache IDE hard drive, and I'm using another WD 200 SATA for storage. The hard drive (or something to do with the way the motherboard interfaces with it) seems to be the culprit in all of this, but I don't know how to fix it. I am running the SATA off port 4 just in case 1 and 2 aren't locked for some reason.
I also might try popping off the chipset fan and putting some AS 5 on it, just in case...I'll also do the mod that makes it into a SLI chipset.
Any suggestions on what might fix this would be greatly appreciated. The system runs smooth as butter at stock speeds, but that's not why I got it; I want to overclock it, and I am very confused as to why I can't.
If you need any more info about my system to better troubleshoot it, just ask.
Basically, I can't seem to overclock my 3000 winchester, and I have no clue why. As stated I have a DFI Ultra-D, and a gigabyte of this ram. It is running perfectly at stock speeds...2-3-2-5 1T @ DDR400. I have a 485 watt enermax noise taker PSU, and all of the plugs are in the motherboard properly. The only video card I'm running is a single 6600GT
My problem is that when I raise the FSB past about 215 I get this error:
windows did not start, because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\windows\system32\config\system
I've tried just about everything I can think of too. I've lowered the multiplier to like...6, LDT/FSB ratio to 4, loosened the timings, and raised the voltages slightly, updated the BIOS, and nothing has helped. The PCI-E is locked at 100 Mhz. I am running water cooling on my cpu and video card currently, and the core is at a chilly 21 degrees. The Chipset is at 45 right now, but the fan doesn't kick into high by default until 55, and it's never gone that high. Even below the 215, at say...210 FSB, I'm experiencing some stability problems.
Now, I am a fairly experienced overclocker with an athlon XP system, but this is my first experience with an A64. I picked DFI, the proc, and this RAM, because they were reviewed to be good overclockers. I really don't think it's any of them either (although I could be wrong).
Now, I am running Windows on a Western Digital 80GB 8MB cache IDE hard drive, and I'm using another WD 200 SATA for storage. The hard drive (or something to do with the way the motherboard interfaces with it) seems to be the culprit in all of this, but I don't know how to fix it. I am running the SATA off port 4 just in case 1 and 2 aren't locked for some reason.
I also might try popping off the chipset fan and putting some AS 5 on it, just in case...I'll also do the mod that makes it into a SLI chipset.
Any suggestions on what might fix this would be greatly appreciated. The system runs smooth as butter at stock speeds, but that's not why I got it; I want to overclock it, and I am very confused as to why I can't.
If you need any more info about my system to better troubleshoot it, just ask.