Re: blank bsod

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From: Paul Smith (Paul_at_nospam.demon.co.uk)
Date: 05/02/04 

Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 21:57:57 +0100

"David" <geekroot@cox.net> wrote in message
news:747d01c43084$f08b64e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> see, the 2600 barton does default to an 11.5 multiplier,
> but there's a problem with the abit an7's that causes the
> system to be ridiculously unstable when the multiplier is
> set to 11.5 (see the link
> http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-10886.html ), so i
> increased that to 12, so i can at least do normal internet
> and music stuff, but anything that uses the graphics card,
> i mean even the directx tests in dxdiag give me a blue
> screen. My FSB is set to 166 MHz, although overclocking to
> 200 MHz FSB doesn't really change the stability at all.
> I've turned off AGP Fast Writes, all shadowing and caching,
> et cetera in the BIOS.

Drop the FSB down to say 133. Put the multiplier down to 10, or even lower
(is your chip unlocked?). If it was a software issue it would most likely
lock up still, hardware and it's less likely to lock up.

My money is on issue with the board (if it was drivers Windows XP would
surely display some kind of error on the BSOD), althogh I've done a quick
search around and I've seen no real traces of this happening (no results on
google groups for example) so it could just be a bad board.

>From that article "I now found that I am getting random lock-ups much as
before, simply by enabling the overclocking features in the bios, and even
when no overclocking is taking place." tried that?

Probably worth getting the latest BIOS for the board as well
(www.abit.com.tw) and it's probably worth posting to
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit which has a very nice and brainy group of
people in! 

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Paul Smith,
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