-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 June 2003 11:35 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: > Since you have a 2700+, and the chart says 2600+ is the max, you might drop > the multiplier to 15, and increase the FSB until it approaches the 2700+ > rating. > Even if you couldn't reach it 2700+, you would still be in good shape > running your 2700+ a little underclocked with a higher FSB. I'm pretty sure > you can get 140FSB from the board without too much trouble. [...]
I'm back in business (still with 1500+ instead of anything approaching 2700+ on the CPU), after rebuilding my kernel (not sure why this should matter but it was relatively painless) and my NVIDIA driver. I can now boot up graphically and do normal user stuff again. As for setting my FSB to anything but 100...there doesn't appear to be a straight forward way to do this. I already know that if I simply select "Load high performance defaults" the system becomes unbootable - and I think it bumps the FSB to 133. I'll try again this evening. My memory should be able to deal with anything I do with this board, as it is rated for 333. My HDD is new enough that it should be able to deal with some variation in the PCI bus. Of course, the CPU is rated higher than this board will do so it should be able to deal with any "overclocking" I do. Perhaps the AGP bus has problems? One of the first things I tried after failing with high performance defaults was to simply set the multiplier to 15, which should have given me 1500 MHz on the CPU vs its current 1300 (for an XP1500+) but it refused to even post. I am not averse to underclocking my CPU for a while but it would be nice to be able to underclock it to a point NEAR the CPU's rated speed. praedor - -- Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. -- Chapman Cohen Fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5d5baKr9sJYeTxgRAmyCAJ9iEvvRX7uRuoPeM+qqfetl/a15gwCeKb4G kiwFXf/O4ORd1R1lY8VCrL4= =bzke -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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