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Post by madgravity34 on Feb 22, 2005 12:02:13 GMT -5
Well I have a 2nd Gen XPS with the following specs:
3.0 ghz
1024mb ram
16x dvd-rw
8x dvd-rom
audigy 2 zs
pny 6800gt (modded to 1.4v bios 420/1200)
2 x seagate 160gb 7200 rpm 8mb raid 0
3dmark05: 5,734
3dmark03: 12,204
So I have been looking into overclocking the processor and I took the steps you guys showed in this forum. If I overclock even a little bit, the entire computer locks up and wont shutdown/bootup...so whats up? COuld you guys help me out? Maybe my board has a different chip number? Could it be heat? I dont have any mods to this desktop whatsoever, minus the upgraded hardware!
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Post by stevogabe on Feb 22, 2005 13:37:13 GMT -5
i think it could be because you are using a raid setup and you are supposed be using IDE instead of SATA.
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Post by avsforsberg21 on Feb 23, 2005 20:02:40 GMT -5
Curious as to what you are trying to OC too?
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Post by stevogabe on Feb 23, 2005 22:32:41 GMT -5
i want to OC to get performance.  |
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Post by avsforsberg21 on Feb 24, 2005 0:59:54 GMT -5
I figured that....curious as to what speed you are trying to hit. What speed have you hit that has been stable?
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Post by stevogabe on Feb 24, 2005 18:01:51 GMT -5
I figured that....curious as to what speed you are trying to hit. What speed have you hit that has been stable? i hit 3.4 stable. but then tried to go to 3.6 and i got the blue screen of death. tried to turn it back on and it wouldn't boot up. looked at the diognostics lights and said memory error. so took one memory moduole out and fired it back on and everything was fine. |
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Post by crusier on Feb 24, 2005 19:57:51 GMT -5
When it does that just pull the power plug out of the chassis power supply arond back. Wait a bit, reconnect, and power the system back up. This gives you a full power reset to the chassis!
If the system prmpts you, allow the scan disk to run. This will handle errors caused by lockup with unclosed files.
PS power off....pull the ac ps plug and reinsert your mem stick...then reconnect the ac and you'll most likely reboot just fine ( you did the above sequence when you removed the mem stick ).....you can run the dell diagnostics on the system paying special attention to the memory tests...hmmm..if you deleted the dell diagnostic partition you can run the diagnostics from the dell CD.
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Post by netring on Apr 11, 2005 22:17:02 GMT -5
same here, i have almost same pc as steevo, exept 2gb ram and no ide hardrive and 2 satats in raid 0 and any overclock locks it up.
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Post by crusier on Apr 12, 2005 2:35:10 GMT -5
I lost the oc here when I installed the sata hdds. The mix of cas3 and cas2.5 mem sticks (went for 2 gigs) dropped the buss to 333 from 400 (the memory is clocked at 4:5 the cpu instead of 1:1) and also killed it. In short, to oc I go with the ide hdd and 2 512 cas3 sticks that came with the puter. The corsair 2.5 peter out around 228+ and I have managed 233-240 with the infineon 3.0.
In using the 'fine adjust' your bumping all the system clocks and sata has no tolerance! Onboard device clocks can also be touchy.
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Post by netring on Apr 12, 2005 12:56:15 GMT -5
so, how would i overclock? Put in an ide? I'm really confused. and please reply to this topic;http://xpsmodz.proboards33.com/index.cgi?board=overcool&action=display&thread=1113275680
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Post by crusier on Apr 12, 2005 21:53:15 GMT -5
Yes....you might be able to go with sata to pata adapters to enable use of the sata hdds and you might also get by using a sata raid card.
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