Help with overclocking mistake

[big chris fool]

yesterday i was fooling around in bios and was trying to overclock my intel pentium 4 2.66ghz cpu with hyperthread
i got it up to 2.93 and that was it, the next setting froze the pc.
i had to manually power down.
upon restart, the screen was crazy looking and would not go past first boot screen(bios page)
i could not use keyboards or mouse.

i unplugged pc and nothing happened. same result, pc froze
i decided to pull the battery and after about 10 minutes it froze
i decided to pull battery and see if that works.
well it does work and everything is ok
the board is a p4m900 with p4 2.66ghz cpu hyperthreading

i have another socket 478 board that is a gigybyte GA81845gvm-rz/rzac/rzc
when i install the 2.66 in here
in device manager it shows 2 cpu's at 2.66
but in properties it says
intel pentium 4 2.66
1.33ghz cpu
why does it show 2 different speeds on this board?
and what speed is it actually running at?
2.66 or 1.33

my email is
iam_betterthenu@yahoo.com

and yes i know it is suppesed to be THANu

thanks guys

 

[Zorg]

Download and run CPU-Z.

 

[Mondoman]

(and post the screen shots here)

 

[LumberWagon]

Actually there is no mystery. It is a P4 with hyperthreading - one physical processor (hardware in BIOS) and two virtual processors in software (hyperthreading).

 

[LumberWagon]

Oops! Are you sure it isn't 133MHz memory speed? If I remember correctly, didn't the P4 run anything from 133 MHz RAM up to RAMBUS depending on chipset and motherboard? Seems to me if Windows sees it as 2.66 GHz then that is what it is running at.

 

[mavroxur]

yesterday i was fooling around in bios and was trying to overclock my intel pentium 4 2.66ghz cpu with hyperthread
i got it up to 2.93 and that was it, the next setting froze the pc.
i had to manually power down.
upon restart, the screen was crazy looking and would not go past first boot screen(bios page)
i could not use keyboards or mouse.

i unplugged pc and nothing happened. same result, pc froze
i decided to pull the battery and after about 10 minutes it froze
i decided to pull battery and see if that works.
well it does work and everything is ok
the board is a p4m900 with p4 2.66ghz cpu hyperthreading

i have another socket 478 board that is a gigybyte GA81845gvm-rz/rzac/rzc
when i install the 2.66 in here
in device manager it shows 2 cpu's at 2.66
but in properties it says
intel pentium 4 2.66
1.33ghz cpu
why does it show 2 different speeds on this board?
and what speed is it actually running at?
2.66 or 1.33

my email is
iam_betterthenu@yahoo.com

and yes i know it is suppesed to be THANu

thanks guys

First, you might try resetting the CMOS settings on the computer you overclocked into instability. Either remove the CMOS battery for a few minutes, or some boards have a jumper that you move to clear the settings. Second, that board you mention *should* support a 2.66 P4, since the 845 chipset supports 533FSB. CPU-Z will reveal a lot. That board isnt mentioned on gigabyte's site anywhere though. If bios settings look correct for that CPU, it could possilby need a bios update for that particular microcode of chip or revision of chip. I'm fairly confident that board will run it at 2.66 with some tinkering.

 

[alm827s]

I cut and paste this from the bios manual pdf:

CPU CLOCK
This item allows you to select CPU Clock, and CPU over clocking.
Special Notice:
If the system’s frequency that you are selected is not functioning, there are two
methods of booting-up the system.
Method 1:
Clear the COMS data by setting the JCOMS1 ((2-3) closed)) as “ON” status. All
the CMOS data will be loaded as defaults setting.
Method 2:
Press the <Insert> key and Power button simultaneously, after that keep-on
pressing the <Insert> key until the power-on screen showed.
This action will boot-up the system according to FSB of the processor
It’s strongly recommended to set CPU Vcore and clock in default setting. If the
CPU Vcore and clock are not in default setting, it may cause CPU or M/B
damage.
The Choices: 100MHz(default); Min=100, Max=400, key in a DEC number.

Can you explain speed spectrum? I don't understand the +/- options

 

[Mondoman]

Disable any "spread spectrum" options - they only cause problems.

Why did you paste the BIOS manual pdf? Do you have a question about it?

 

[mamw93]

Clear the CMOS again but this time also reset the jumpers on the motherboard to be sure to clear out everyhting. Then try to POST and get into the BIOS. If you cannto then you have most likely fried your CPU beyond repair. If the screen still jostles around then try managing with it to get into the BIOS long enough to reset everything. As far as the keyboard and mouse not working I don't what to tell you.