CPU or Mobo or me?

[ciwell]

The specs:

939 3200+ Winchester
K8N Neo2 Platinum
1GB Patriot RAM w/XBL


Alright, I was following Zebo's excellent guide and could only get the FSB to 230 and could go no higher. I took the CPU and the RAM out of the equation as he said by setting them low, however no matter what I have done, it won't go higher than 230! Now, I know this is messed up given that every thread I have read on this combination or close to has been reaching up to 250 and higher. Is this really my cap? Am I stuck at 2.3Ghz? (300Mhz o/c) Is there something I am doing wrong? WTF? Any advice or assistance would be much appreciated.

-Thanks in advance.

 

[zakee00]

raise the vcore a bit, (1.5v) and try to get farther.

 

[Jotho]

You're not using any SATA hard drives by any chance?

 

[ciwell]

Yeah, I am using both a 74G Raptor and a SATA Samsung HD.

Edit: The vcore is already at 1.5v
Edit2: Bumped it to 1.525 and nothing...same thing happening.

 

[ciwell]

You know, when it hangs up, it always says: Detecting IDE drives ...

It just sits there saying that and then after about 10 minutes, it reboots and does the same thing over...won't even let me enter the BIOS.

 

[ciwell]

Why did you ask about the SATA?

 

[ciwell]

Just to add in real quick...I did follow Zebo's guide and the HT is at 3x and the RAM is at 100Mhz. Also, a new problem has come up. When at 2.3Ghz, it runs fine in Prime95 without errors (tested 20 hrs), however, when I restart the computer, it hangs up with the same message: Detecting IDE drives...

Really confused. Is this a motherboard problem or something else?

Thanks in advance.

 

[BoleCailey]

Put your sata hardrive conections to sata spot three and 4 on that mother board i was having a hard time overclocking and when i did that everything worked fine.

 

[ciwell]

Alright, I will try that tomorrow when I get off of work.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: BoleCailey
Put your sata hardrive conections to sata spot three and 4 on that mother board i was having a hard time overclocking and when i did that everything worked fine.

Yeah, the reason being that ports 1 and 2 don't have a lock, and SATA is extremely sensitive to overclocks.

 

[ciwell]

That did the trick. Thank you very much all who helped.


Edit: Oh yeah: :beer::beer:

 

[ddviper]

if u need ne more tips, try this

http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43033

 

[ciwell]

Ah, neat...wish I would have seen that sooner. Thanks!