PIV 2.8C OC'N Prob

[daphatgrant]

Hello, I am new at overclocking and could use a little advice. I am having a bit of trouble getting any type of descent OC out of my system. I'll list the components first.

Abit IC7-G
PIV 2.8C w/SLK 900&92mmTornado w/Arctic Silver III
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200LL
Vantec Stealth 520 watt PSU
Audigy Platinum
Radeon 8500
120GB Maxtor 8MB Cache
48x24x48 Plextor
16xDVD Sony
FDD
2 Vantec NXP201's
CoolerMaster Black Musketeer
Matrix Orbital MX213
4 CCFL's
4 80mm Tornado's
1 90mm Tornado
2 120mm Sunon's

All I am able to muster out of the 2.8 is 3.0, anything above that and I cant get into windows. I think, not sure, but I think that my problem might be that my VCard cant handle the AGP increase? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Mcseiam]

In order to help we need more information:

what voltage is the memory at?
what timings?
what ratio is the RAM running at? 5:4 or 3:2 or 1:1?
what voltage is the processor at?
what temps are being reported?
do you have the PCI/AGP clock locked?
anything else you can think of that might help us

 

[rogue_jedi]

lessee... make sure that you have the pci set to 33mhz. put the ram at 5:4 timings (DDR320 setting on some boards) then relax the timings to, say, 2.5-3-3-7, to totally remove memory from the equation. try pumping about 1.65 volts through the cpu, and try 225 fsb, or whatever you want to try.

make sure that your psu rails are all within tolerances (i think it is 10%, it may be as high as 15%, correct me if i'm wrong) and make sure that your cpu and ram voltages don't drop too much (ram may be hard to check, though)

good luck!