BigShotGorilla

I have a:

ASUS a7a266 (latest bios update, Multiplier is 13 i think with 133 fsb)
Athlon XP2000
Geforce 3 ti500 (overclocked)
I have the case and the cooling to OC, used to do it with my 1.4 athlon

But i cant get my FSB over 135.

Any suggestions:
should i try to unlock the the chip, if so how do i do it.
if i drop the multiplier would i be able to raise the FSB.

I was thinking that it is my mother board. should just bite down and get a new motherboard?

Help!

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janusz

yes you should and heres how you do it.


1: Get a yellow wax crayon, yellow shows up best!

2: Rub the crayon over the L1 pits! make sure they are fully filled, it does not matter if the crayon covers the dots!

3: Take a rough(ish) rubber, and rub it over the dots, this clean's the wax off of them! Then check the pits are still filled, if so continue to step 4, if not go back to step 2 and do it again! You do not have to rub hard to clean the dots, just make sure they are shiny!

4: Then take a conductive pen (these don't seem to work as well) or a rear-window defroster kit (the conductive paint bit, mine was silver, but i have heard that it can be brown too). Get a fine paintbrush (what i used!) and dip it in the conductive paint (shake it first for 30seconds!), then very slowy draw a line across each bridge, this is easier than it sounds, just take your time and all will be good!

5: Check to see if you have crossed any bridges, if you have you will need to clean it off, and start again (that bridge), do this until the bridges are fine and look some thing like this:

| | | | |

That is correct!

6: Leave the paint to dry, it shouldn't take more than 5minutes, under a minute is more realistic though!

7: You can mask the over the L1 bridges now to stop the paint being rubbed off! A bit of scotch tape will work just fine! I didn't mask them over, and instead was just carefull with my fingers when installing the XP again!


I don't think i missed anything! Tell me if i have! This whole process took me 10minutes and gave me full multiplyer control!

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Yeti

Repost! Lol... You didn't say what kind of RAM you had running in there... that may be slowing you down. You should also take into consideration your add-ons. If you have a flaky Creative sound card or a cheap NIC... they may be dying on you. (probably wouldn't cause the whole system to die, but its good to avoid such things because they hold you back).

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shuki

up the juice baby!!

d/l, install and configure MBM 5 too to check voltages and temps. should be very first step in OCing!

shai

also could be bad psu
low 5v would mean low vcore