-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:06 pm, John McQuillen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > <snip> > > > Well, all is well with the system now but I will still need a new mobo to > > take advantage of the CPU. I have finally figured out the trick to > > "overclocking" the system and have found that this board will simply not > > do an FSB of 133 Mhz. Setting the frequency to 133 prevents the computer > > from even attempting to post. I cannot even get to bios to reset it. I > > have to unplug the system and pull the bios battery to reset the bios to > > defaults so I can boot up again. I have since successfully bumped the > > FSB up to a mere 110 Mhz. I will try bumping it up again and again until > > it fails and just go below that. > > > > This board wont even handle what the MSI sites say it will. It is > > supposedly capable of using up to an XP 2600+ which requires an FSB > > higher than this thing can actually handle. > > I haven't been following this thread closely, but are you sure that you > haven't got an old sound card, network card, or something else that is > not handling the 133MHz bus speed? > > Just guessing, as I have had a similar problem in the past with older > cards.
A soundcard or network card would prevent even getting up to bios? My soundcard is a SB16 and the network card is a 3com 3C900B-TPO [Etherlink XL TPO]. praedor - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public. - --Justice Hugo Black GnuPG fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5tcfaKr9sJYeTxgRAp5YAKCf9952wBb7ZOU//XjX0DLm/KmMHwCgkuNh w7Q2ofs2qM4uEO8mWPAHNBQ= =3oXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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