I am getting system crashes back to that green Asus nforce screen that you see during boot up. My system and settings:
A7N8X deluxe. 1002 bios
Athlon XP tbred B 2100 oc'd to 180x11.5, vcore 1.65v
OCZ el DDR 3500 2x256 2-2-2-6, DDR voltage 2.7v, using slots 2,3
9700 all in wonder , AGP voltage 1.6v , 128 aperture
floppy, DVD-ROM, CD -RW,
three maxtor hard drives (which are not doing anything, one has a swap file , I think) JBOD, not RAID
WD 80 gig caviar hard drive. Boot and everything drive.
windows XP home all updates
Vantec Stealth 420 power supply.
*** the bios shows the following power supply rails/voltages
+3v = 3.26v
+5v = 4.70v
+12v = 12.16v
For CPU cooling I have a Ahanix Iceberg - a really basic beginner water cooling setup that seems to be about like a really good air cooling getup.
the hottest temperature that I have seen on the CPU according to the BIOS is 91 F.
--- I am new to overclocking and am accordingly doing something wrong. Can you help ? It seems that the CPU should be able to go over 11.5 X 180, right ? This memory should breeze at 180 FSB, Right ? 420 watt PSU should be enough, right ? What am I missing. If it is really obvious, remember that I am new to this. My hunch is that a memory stick is not living up to its claim. Or, I am overburdening the PSU with too many things attached to it. I have also had crashes to blue screen, but not in a while. Lately they have been crashes from Win XP back to the startup - that green nforce2 or whatever screen that pops up momentarily during boot up. Can my system problem be characterized as memory or CPU by the kind of crash ?
A7N8X deluxe. 1002 bios
Athlon XP tbred B 2100 oc'd to 180x11.5, vcore 1.65v
OCZ el DDR 3500 2x256 2-2-2-6, DDR voltage 2.7v, using slots 2,3
9700 all in wonder , AGP voltage 1.6v , 128 aperture
floppy, DVD-ROM, CD -RW,
three maxtor hard drives (which are not doing anything, one has a swap file , I think) JBOD, not RAID
WD 80 gig caviar hard drive. Boot and everything drive.
windows XP home all updates
Vantec Stealth 420 power supply.
*** the bios shows the following power supply rails/voltages
+3v = 3.26v
+5v = 4.70v
+12v = 12.16v
For CPU cooling I have a Ahanix Iceberg - a really basic beginner water cooling setup that seems to be about like a really good air cooling getup.
the hottest temperature that I have seen on the CPU according to the BIOS is 91 F.
--- I am new to overclocking and am accordingly doing something wrong. Can you help ? It seems that the CPU should be able to go over 11.5 X 180, right ? This memory should breeze at 180 FSB, Right ? 420 watt PSU should be enough, right ? What am I missing. If it is really obvious, remember that I am new to this. My hunch is that a memory stick is not living up to its claim. Or, I am overburdening the PSU with too many things attached to it. I have also had crashes to blue screen, but not in a while. Lately they have been crashes from Win XP back to the startup - that green nforce2 or whatever screen that pops up momentarily during boot up. Can my system problem be characterized as memory or CPU by the kind of crash ?