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I'm at a loss and need some help. Here's the rig I just built.
Gigabyte 965P-S3 rev.C2 with F6bios
E6300
2x1GB G.Skill HZ series PC6400 ram
old nVidia 6600 gpu
old Audigy 2 sound card
320GB Seagate SATA2
500w Fortron psu
Swiftech watercooling (2x120 rad, 6000 series cpu block, gpu and northbridge)
I have loaded XP Pro and tested it at stock speeds using orthos blend. All is good, as it should be. So then I began to overclock. I haven't done any oc'ing since owning an Athlon XP, so it's been a while. I was reading up here and on extreme systems. Here's what I did:
Hit Ctrl+F1 in bios to get advanced options.
Disabled:
- Limit CPUID Max. to 3
- CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)
- CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2)
- CPU EIST Function
Enter the M.I.T. section and:
- Set CPU Host Clock Control to Enabled
- Set CPU Host Frequency (MHz) to 400
- Set PCI Express Frequency(MHz) to 100
- Set System Memory Multiplier to 2.00
- Set DRAM Timing Selectable to Manual
- Set CAS Latency Time to 5
- Set DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay to 5
- Set DRAM RAS# Precharge to 5
- Set Precharge dealy (tRAS) to 12
- Set the other memory timings to auto
- Set voltage control to manual
- Set all voltages to normal
It posts, boots to windows, and cpuid verifies the speed. I ran the orthos blend for an hour without a hitch, and decided to kick it up a notch. Since the ram is supposed to be decent, I set my host to 450 and left everything else. It posts and boots XP fine. I left the orthos blend go overnight with Intel's thermal analysis tool showing me both cores were staying between 42-44C. Temps look fine, none of the blocks felt very warm. Only the ram was a tad warm, but not hot.
When I checked in the morning, orthos ran without a hitch for the 12hr duration. Temps hadn't changed. I thought I'd install Gigabytes Easytune software to see what it said for temps and such. This is where my problem starts. After installing Easytune, I try to run it and get slapped in the face with a BSOD. I reboot, turn the clock speed back to factory in the bios, and restart. She runs smooth, but Easytune does the same BSOD at stock speeds. I reinstall it and give it another go. No dice. Same problem. So I uninstall it, say f--- Easytune, and reboot to get back to overclocking.
Now it won't overclock. I set the host speed to anything, from 267 to 500, and it boots at stock 266. No errors, no freezing, just acts like nothing changed. I kick the multiplier to 6 and see if it will boot at 6x400, but it boots at 266x6. Its like the host isn't reading what I input into the bios. I've tried upping the vDimm 0.3v, no change. I've flashing the bios with f3, f5, f6, f7 but with no change. I'm pretty bummed now. Any ideas?
Gigabyte 965P-S3 rev.C2 with F6bios
E6300
2x1GB G.Skill HZ series PC6400 ram
old nVidia 6600 gpu
old Audigy 2 sound card
320GB Seagate SATA2
500w Fortron psu
Swiftech watercooling (2x120 rad, 6000 series cpu block, gpu and northbridge)
I have loaded XP Pro and tested it at stock speeds using orthos blend. All is good, as it should be. So then I began to overclock. I haven't done any oc'ing since owning an Athlon XP, so it's been a while. I was reading up here and on extreme systems. Here's what I did:
Hit Ctrl+F1 in bios to get advanced options.
Disabled:
- Limit CPUID Max. to 3
- CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E)
- CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2)
- CPU EIST Function
Enter the M.I.T. section and:
- Set CPU Host Clock Control to Enabled
- Set CPU Host Frequency (MHz) to 400
- Set PCI Express Frequency(MHz) to 100
- Set System Memory Multiplier to 2.00
- Set DRAM Timing Selectable to Manual
- Set CAS Latency Time to 5
- Set DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay to 5
- Set DRAM RAS# Precharge to 5
- Set Precharge dealy (tRAS) to 12
- Set the other memory timings to auto
- Set voltage control to manual
- Set all voltages to normal
It posts, boots to windows, and cpuid verifies the speed. I ran the orthos blend for an hour without a hitch, and decided to kick it up a notch. Since the ram is supposed to be decent, I set my host to 450 and left everything else. It posts and boots XP fine. I left the orthos blend go overnight with Intel's thermal analysis tool showing me both cores were staying between 42-44C. Temps look fine, none of the blocks felt very warm. Only the ram was a tad warm, but not hot.
When I checked in the morning, orthos ran without a hitch for the 12hr duration. Temps hadn't changed. I thought I'd install Gigabytes Easytune software to see what it said for temps and such. This is where my problem starts. After installing Easytune, I try to run it and get slapped in the face with a BSOD. I reboot, turn the clock speed back to factory in the bios, and restart. She runs smooth, but Easytune does the same BSOD at stock speeds. I reinstall it and give it another go. No dice. Same problem. So I uninstall it, say f--- Easytune, and reboot to get back to overclocking.
Now it won't overclock. I set the host speed to anything, from 267 to 500, and it boots at stock 266. No errors, no freezing, just acts like nothing changed. I kick the multiplier to 6 and see if it will boot at 6x400, but it boots at 266x6. Its like the host isn't reading what I input into the bios. I've tried upping the vDimm 0.3v, no change. I've flashing the bios with f3, f5, f6, f7 but with no change. I'm pretty bummed now. Any ideas?
Not sure what was the hold up before, but at least it is working.