Just thought id let you all know that i was able to overclock my 2800 barton to 2.4 by raising the multiplier to 14 and setting the fsb to 166 im using stock voltage (1.65)
I kind of have a long story but I will try and make it short and sweet! I originally bought a amd 2200, I think the company did a bait and switch and gave me an amd 1400. I have been using it for about a year at 1333 mhz. Then i went out and bought a game that requires at least 1.4 ghz so I tried overclocking the amd 1400, I really don't know what I am doing as I have never tried to overclock. I chose a high performance setting and it automatically gave me the best settings I could get, now the machine is unstable and locks up 5 seconds into the computer getting to the desktop. I tried to reset the jumpers to get it back to the 1333 mhz but now all it reads is 1733 mhz. So the only thing I could think of was to go out and get a better processor, which I did. I bought an amd 2800 barton and should arrive today. My question is what did I do to my computer and is there a way I could save the processor and does anyone think that putting in a better processor will help my situation?
I went into Bios and went into advanced chipset and changed the setting from auto to high performance. It went from 1333 mhz to 1733 mhz, I realized that the machine was not running stable so I reset the jumpers and everything went back to default but the mobo is still seeing the processor at 1733 mhz on auto with a fsb at 100 mhz, the dram setting is on spd at 200 mhz. I can't get the mobo to go back to the original setting of 1333 mhz when it was stable. I did a system restore and it still didn't work.
did u take note that settings likethe fsb and clock speed cuz i think if you overclock then set back it only looks like set back and u need to change clock speeds as well but im not an expert at this maybe a senior or mod would be better to ask
Are you talking about the memory timings. I don't even know waht to change in there so I leave that alone but everything else is on auto and the fsb is set at 100 mhz, the lowest setting I can go but the mobo is saying that I have an amd 2100+ and I can't go in there and change it. Does that make sense.
From what I said in my other posts, would it be a good idea to upgrade the processor and hopefully it will run stable.
If you can up the multi on your barton then your kinda lucky as it must be one of the first all the rest were locked @ 12.5
chewie, I know you changed the jumpers, but did you clear the CMOS? there should be a flat battery that looks like a coin on the mobo. remove it for a couple minutes, then put it back in. Everything should go back to default settings.
