Help Newbie w/Ocing (do I need to back down?)

[mattlock]

Here my setup

PIII700 slot 1 @ 1050 cCo stepping, Alpha cooling, Temps 26C (idle)
1.90 volts
Abit BE6 (not BE6-II)
Crucial PC133 Cas2
Geforce2 GTS-V (just put in today)

Symptons after slowly increasing speed to 1050

1) 3DMark2001 quits half way through the benchmark and goes back to windows screen
2) 1 minute into Unreal Tournament games stops and "general protection error" or pops up
3) Blue screen comes up and says something like "memory management"

What's your guess as to my problems?

The interesting thing is that just the other day I was successfully running a GF2MMX400 at 1050 without any problems.... I thought the GTS-v was a much better card. Now I didnt put it on a stress test but I played UT for atleast 15-20 minutes without any problems with the MMX.

Note: Now the GTS does have 32mg vs the MMX's 64mb but I didnt think that would matter.

Could it be the drivers?

[marv]

Here's a shopping list:

Your temps seem fine, confirm your temps. in your BIOS and make sure the load temp. is not alot higher.

The Vcore of 1.9, I assume is max'ed, as most ABIT MBs have default plus 0.2. If not increase .05 or .1 and watch your temp.

At a 150FSB you could be reaching the limits of your RAM, make sure your RAM timing is set to 3-3-3 (chipset features?)

At 1050 you may be reaching the limits of the processor core.

Assuming your limited to a 2/3 divider for your AGP, your running at 100, thats getting high for a lot of Video cards and they may not run that far out of the standard specs of 66.

Good Luck

[mattlock]

Marv,
Thanks, will try

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PIII700 @980 cC0 Stepping (no backplate)
Alpha P3125 HS w/ dual Thermaltake Fans, (26C Idle)
3DMark2001: 3137
2 80mm case fans
1.85 Volts
Abit BE6 original
Crucial PC133 Cas2 (256mg)
Pioneer DVD
HP Writer 8x4x32x
30 Gig Maxtor 7200, ATA133
Geforce2 GTS-V 32mg
Soundblaster Live
Cable Internet (RoadRunner)
Windows 2000 Prof.
21 inch Viewsonic G810

[mattlock]

Marv,
[QUOTE]Originally posted by marv:

At a 150FSB you could be reaching the limits of your RAM, make sure your RAM timing is set to 3-3-3 (chipset features?)

I dont see anything in chipset features that references RAM timing. Could it be called something else?

thanks

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PIII700 @980 cC0 Stepping (no backplate)
Alpha P3125 HS w/ dual Thermaltake Fans, (26C Idle)
3DMark2001: 3137
2 80mm case fans
1.85 Volts
Abit BE6 original
Crucial PC133 Cas2 (256mg)
Pioneer DVD
HP Writer 8x4x32x
30 Gig Maxtor 7200, ATA133
Geforce2 GTS-V 32mg
Soundblaster Live
Cable Internet (RoadRunner)
Windows 2000 Prof.
21 inch Viewsonic G810

[marv]

Sorry, I'm not sure of your BIOS selection, it should be something like, on 3 seperate lines I would guess:
CAS Delay
precharge
latency

If you don't have similar, set to auto, assuming you have that selection.

[mattlock]

Originally posted by marv:
Sorry, I'm not sure of your BIOS selection, it should be something like, on 3 seperate lines I would guess:
CAS Delay
precharge
latency

If you don't have similar, set to auto, assuming you have that selection.

Marv,

Here is what my selection looks like currently:
CAS Latency Time: 2
Leadoff Command: 3
Precharge Control: Disable

Should i change these? Even though i have CAS2 memory should I change it to 3?



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PIII700 @980 cC0 Stepping (no backplate)
Alpha P3125 HS w/ dual Thermaltake Fans, (26C Idle)
3DMark2001: 3137
2 80mm case fans
1.85 Volts
Abit BE6 original
Crucial PC133 Cas2 (256mg)
Pioneer DVD
HP Writer 8x4x32x
30 Gig Maxtor 7200, ATA133
Geforce2 GTS-V 32mg
Soundblaster Live
Cable Internet (RoadRunner)
Windows 2000 Prof.
21 inch Viewsonic G810

[bootlog]

Originally posted by mattlock:
Marv,

Here is what my selection looks like currently:
CAS Latency Time: 2
Leadoff Command: 3
Precharge Control: Disable

Should i change these? Even though i have CAS2 memory should I change it to 3?

Yes, you should change you cas latency to 3, because your ram is intended to work @cas 2 when it runs @133mhz and in most cases reducing the cas latency to 3 at a higher frequency then the ram default might improve stability.

[This message has been edited by bootlog (edited January 25, 2002).]

[mattlock]

What about the "precharge control" setting" enable or disable...curently it is disabled.

mattlock

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PIII700 @980 cC0 Stepping (no backplate)
Alpha P3125 HS w/ dual Thermaltake Fans, (26C Idle)
3DMark2001: 3137
2 80mm case fans
1.85 Volts
Abit BE6 original
Crucial PC133 Cas2 (256mg)
Pioneer DVD
HP Writer 8x4x32x
30 Gig Maxtor 7200, ATA133
Geforce2 GTS-V 32mg
Soundblaster Live
Cable Internet (RoadRunner)
Windows 2000 Prof.
21 inch Viewsonic G810