Originally posted by: JJordan
Also, here is a link to some information on heat that I cannot say I understand but am pretty sure tells me 75 degrees C is way too hot......
Core 2 Duo Temp
I am completely unable to overclock my system. When I increase the BUS speed and try to boot I get a blank screen - no memory beep (or other beep) at all and nothing happens. When I save BIOS and exit screen goes blank and that is it. Have to remove my video card and take out battery. I am really doing something wrong.
75deg C is way too hot. Thermal throttling should be kicking in at that point which is what you don't want.
I'd try the following things if you haven't already:
0. Set the Memory speed from Auto to "2". On Auto it picks some insane divider (only when you manually set the FSB speed) that just won't work. That way your ram will be running in spec.
1. Set PCI-E bus frequency to 100 (default PCI-E speed) instead of Auto
2. Disable USB legacy support and use a ps/2 mouse and keyboard for testing.
3. leave ram and system voltages at auto.
If that doesnt' work overclocking (which may be the problem because of insane heat you're getting) try underclocking. If you can't underclock some settings are a no go. Drop your CPU multiplier down by one. That and maybe you can get your temperatures down until you can get some better cooling on your CPU. I don't claim to know what will burn up your cpu or not but I'm assuming Intel decided to throttle the CPU back for a reason right around there.
Instead of unseating your video card all the time to get at the battery, use the reset pins right next to it. What I did was take an old fan, cut off the fan part and keep the wire and cable header and plug it into the reset pins and reseat your video card on top of it. When you want to reset your bios just power it up and touch the wires together. When done resetting, keep them apart or put electrical tape over the wire. Much easier.