Okay, after hours of changing voltage settings, FSB settings, I am about to give up. After receiving my Radeon 8500LE today, I was excited to see what my 1.6A and 4G4A+ can do with the 8500LE on 3DMarks. Well, after installing XP, I went ahead and installed Intel's chipset drivers, application accelerator, and windowsupdate. Everything went down hill after that.
Prior to installing those updates and drivers, I was able to boot into Windows at 2.4GHz (150*16), although Prime95 would crash. At 1.75v, I felt the voltage was too high, so I decide to run it at 2.3GHz, and I ran Prime95 for 13 hours last night, no crash (I did not install the chipset drivers yesterday). But after getting the Radeon 8500LE, and reinstalling XP, the chipset drivers, and windowsupdate, I can at best only run at 2.0GHz (125*16), and finish 3DMarks with a 9359 score. I tried 2.2GHz, 3DMarks crashes at the start of benchmarking. 2.3GHz, XP doesn't finish loading. I can boot into 2.4GHz, but again, XP doesn't load.
Is my 1.6A a dud? I can boot at 2.4GHz, but I have to run it at high vcore. My temps are fine, even after 3DMarks and Prime95, it hovers around 45C or so.
So what is it? The Intel Chipset drivers? What else can I do?