You know, this was supposed to be a walk in the park
"The Pentium 4-1.8A was a bit different and in addition to be it being a more recent processor, it was able to hit much higher core speeds. Using a SiS 645DX motherboard, we were able to easily reach the magic 2.4 GHz overclock on the standard 133/533 MHz FSB", they said
"Considering performance, stability, and availability factors, along with full support for the 133/533 MHz FSB and DDR333, the natural recommendation is a motherboard based on the SIS 645DX chipset", they said
(sharky extreme, and they even used an almost identical system to mine for their <b>successful</b> OC)
and they werent the only ones - everywere on the net ive seen the 1.8A O/Ced easily to 2.4, especially on 645DX boards, which i remember were calld once "overclockers' heaven".
so i went to the store and got myself a P4 1.8A, a SIS645DX based MSI mobo, 256MB Corsair DDR PC3000 and an MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB. after i installed everything and made sure all components were orignial and of good quality (using Sandra and 3dmark) i set the FSB to 133, the FSB: DRAM ratio to 4:5 and the vcore to 1.55 and saved the settings in the BIOS
But NOOOOOOOOOO !!!! my luck has to suck!!! so the system cant boot. after messing around with every possible value in the BIOS, i have come to the conlclusion that regardless of the values of the memory voltage / memory frequency / CAS / timing setting mode / MA 1T\2T / Host to memory latency / graphic winsize / ACPI / Primary Graphic adapter / Spread spectrum / Unused PCI Slot Clk / Whatever - i cant boot my computer with 133 FSB, unless the Vcore is set to 1.6V (which is the maximum on my board) in which case the system boots but the OS (WinXP Pro) wouldnt start - either it starts loading up then gives me an error (which tells me that a driver or a HD is responsible for the problem) or it gives me the error even before the OS starts, or the system simply reboots in the middle of loading the OS, and one time the OS actually loaded up only to give me the error a few seconds later.
the error messages were written in white over a completely blue screen and they all started with "windows has halted your system in order to prevent damage to your hardware" or something like that. i should note that all the drivers on my system are the most updated, even the motherboard drivers.
I have tried maxing the DDR Voltage, and messing around with all possibe BIOS values (latency, host to memory...), to no avail.
Im afraid the only solution is increasing the CPU Vcore, in order to do which ill have to wait to the next BIOS update, that is assuming that such an update ever comes, AND that it will enable more than 1.6 Volts... and MSI arent exactly known as a company about which i can make such assumptions. i really hope hacking the processor (for extra Vcore) won't be a necessity because i have zero experience in such things.
so, what do u say guys? any suggestions ???
Thanks a billion in advance !!!
Rest easy...
Venom is here
"The Pentium 4-1.8A was a bit different and in addition to be it being a more recent processor, it was able to hit much higher core speeds. Using a SiS 645DX motherboard, we were able to easily reach the magic 2.4 GHz overclock on the standard 133/533 MHz FSB", they said
"Considering performance, stability, and availability factors, along with full support for the 133/533 MHz FSB and DDR333, the natural recommendation is a motherboard based on the SIS 645DX chipset", they said
(sharky extreme, and they even used an almost identical system to mine for their <b>successful</b> OC)
and they werent the only ones - everywere on the net ive seen the 1.8A O/Ced easily to 2.4, especially on 645DX boards, which i remember were calld once "overclockers' heaven".
so i went to the store and got myself a P4 1.8A, a SIS645DX based MSI mobo, 256MB Corsair DDR PC3000 and an MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB. after i installed everything and made sure all components were orignial and of good quality (using Sandra and 3dmark) i set the FSB to 133, the FSB: DRAM ratio to 4:5 and the vcore to 1.55 and saved the settings in the BIOS
But NOOOOOOOOOO !!!! my luck has to suck!!! so the system cant boot. after messing around with every possible value in the BIOS, i have come to the conlclusion that regardless of the values of the memory voltage / memory frequency / CAS / timing setting mode / MA 1T\2T / Host to memory latency / graphic winsize / ACPI / Primary Graphic adapter / Spread spectrum / Unused PCI Slot Clk / Whatever - i cant boot my computer with 133 FSB, unless the Vcore is set to 1.6V (which is the maximum on my board) in which case the system boots but the OS (WinXP Pro) wouldnt start - either it starts loading up then gives me an error (which tells me that a driver or a HD is responsible for the problem) or it gives me the error even before the OS starts, or the system simply reboots in the middle of loading the OS, and one time the OS actually loaded up only to give me the error a few seconds later.
the error messages were written in white over a completely blue screen and they all started with "windows has halted your system in order to prevent damage to your hardware" or something like that. i should note that all the drivers on my system are the most updated, even the motherboard drivers.
I have tried maxing the DDR Voltage, and messing around with all possibe BIOS values (latency, host to memory...), to no avail.
Im afraid the only solution is increasing the CPU Vcore, in order to do which ill have to wait to the next BIOS update, that is assuming that such an update ever comes, AND that it will enable more than 1.6 Volts... and MSI arent exactly known as a company about which i can make such assumptions. i really hope hacking the processor (for extra Vcore) won't be a necessity because i have zero experience in such things.
so, what do u say guys? any suggestions ???
Thanks a billion in advance !!!
Rest easy...
Venom is here
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