help! msi k7t pro2-a o/c problems

[Wrawrat]

I have some problems to overclock my new, shiny MSI K7T Pro-2A with my Athlon Thunderbird 750. When I choose a Frequency Multiplier, the .5 gives always 7.5x and the .0 gives 7.0. So, when I choose 9.0x, I actually underclock my computer to 700MHz. Wow. I don't know if there is any benefit to underclocking...
Something that I don't understand is that the same CPU was working very well on a Asus A7Pro board... I was able to change it to 9.0x without any problem. (Actually, the problem was the motherboard itself, it wasn't stable at all even if I was underclocking the cpu.)
I have connected all the L1 bridges... so what could be the problem? I even tried the three differents BIOSes at MSI support page. I have also played with the CPU Voltage... No results.

 

[RoboTECH]

dude, that's just totally bizarre.

I didn't have any issues with my K7T Pro2a like that

have you tried cleaning off the bridge connections and reconnecting?

perhaps a bit of a trace isn't connected totally, and/or the traces are cross-connected?

just a guess there.

 

[BuckMaster]

I suggest the same as RoboTECH double check L1 bridges.

You might want to read this post. Read on down the page. Other people have been having that same problems it looks like.

Here

 

[heng1028]

try to re connect the L1 bridges

 

[DaddyG]

Wrawrat, this is a known problem with some PRO2's. One option is to connect all the L7 bridges, the higher default voltage seems to correct the problem. Note that its not the same as setting the voltage in the bios. Also Overclockers.co has some info that might help.