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Overclocking trouble

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DarkIce

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Hey,

I'm really new to this, but spent the past few days reading asmuch as i could about overclocking the CPU and ram, still trying to make sense of the ram timing(mines currently 3-4-4-8).
I've got a p4-800-3000 , Corsair XMS 3700(1gb), and a Abit
IS7-g mobo.

My first attempt i wanted to go easy, simply matching the CPU to what the ram should run at stock. so, i went into the bios and set the FSB up to 233, since the ram is double pumped at 467, leaving it at a 1:1 ratio. Also raised the cpu voltage from 1.525 to 1.550, left the ram at default(still reading up on that) which i believe was 2.6v.

It booted fine, running just under 3500mhz, windows up, played some america's army while watching my hardware monitor (temps and voltages) everything stayed in the green, under load temp went up to 55C(i've got a Spark 7+ from thermaltake), but after awhile my hardware speaker would emit a single high pitched beep, a diffrent tone then when your pressing toomany keys, it would do it randomly. The whole time im watching the monitor and nothing is out of bounds.After about 5mins of that I rebooted and undid the overclock.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what may be causing the problem, I'm using winbond's hardware monitor(that came w/ the mobo) maybe i need something that looks at more things to see what the problem is?
 
That was probably the high temp sensor warning. You can adjust the warning temp to a higher setting in the bios. Or, you can get a better cooling heatsink.
 
Originally posted by DarkIce
Hey,

I'm really new to this, but spent the past few days reading asmuch as i could about overclocking the CPU and ram, still trying to make sense of the ram timing(mines currently 3-4-4-8).
I've got a p4-800-3000 , Corsair XMS 3700(1gb), and a Abit
IS7-g mobo.

My first attempt i wanted to go easy, simply matching the CPU to what the ram should run at stock. so, i went into the bios and set the FSB up to 233, since the ram is double pumped at 467, leaving it at a 1:1 ratio. Also raised the cpu voltage from 1.525 to 1.550, left the ram at default(still reading up on that) which i believe was 2.6v.
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up to 233? wow, my fsb stock was at 122.
 
I was watching the temp and it never went above 55c, what else might have caused this?
On a side note- For some reason i just found out that the bios says my cpu is running at 45c, while in the bios....(idle?)
after i boot windows and turn on winbond it starts at 42 and drops down to 38 idle. That just seems a little odd, i actually cool down 3 degrees while loading? or is one giving me false readings, if so which? If winbond is, then maybe it was the temp alarm, but that means i was running at 75c+ and my comp should have shut itself down right?
 
I still haven't figured out what it was:confused:
not too sure i want to try it again w/o some sort of idea what to look for
 
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