Damaged Motherboard?

[Met-AL]

I was messing around with CPU Cool. I tried to modify my FSB with it from within Windows. It caused my PC to crash and reboot by itself. When it was posting it hung after the drives were detected and then a tone was played out the speaker. I reset the PC and now it boots to windows (without CPU Cool) just fine but, when I use my TV card I have 'digital' static on the screen when the scenes move fast and also I get static from my sound card. It seems that something with the PCI bus is wrong.

Any suggestions on getting it working properly again.

Windows XP Pro
T-Bird 1.33GHZ
IWILL KK266/R (VIA KT133a)
Crucial PC133 CL2 RAM
Winfast GF2 Pro
SBLive!
Haupage WinTV Go PCI
NIC
Maxtor HD's
LG DVD
HP Burner

[BigBlue66]

I think that by increasing the FSB, you also increased the PCI/AGP bus. Your components on each of those bus (video card and sound card) are working overtime.

I think the way to go with this, is to clear the CMOS and set defaults. Make sure everything is running correctly before tweaking the BIOS.

[Met-AL]

Thanks.
I'll give that a shot when I get home tonight. My motherboard does have a BIOS adjustment for the FSB in 1mhz increments. It said 133mhz, but maybe CPU Cool changed it and the BIOS doesn't see it.

[Met-AL]

Tried fixing it from the BIOS. That wasn't the problem. I used the reset utility from CPU Cool and that didn't help. What I finally did was to us Go Back to revert the drive to before I installed CPU Cool and all is well. It must have changed some setting in the registry.

I learned my lesson!:D

[BigBlue66]

Glad to hear you got it fixed.

I personally don't like to use software CPU cooling. The variance between idle and load temps are sometimes quite a bit, which I think is kinda hard on the CPU. But, that's just me. A better solution is to make sure you have optimal case cooling and a quality HSF.

[Met-AL]

Well my original intentions with this program were to read the temps off of my Leadtek graphics card. MBM doesn't do this. Well curiosity got the best of me and I started to fiddle around with it.

As far as cooling is concerned, I couldn't agree with you more about software cooling. I was lucky when I bought my 1.33 T-Bird. It came factory unlocked and I am able to get it up to 1.53ghz with a cheap aluminum heatsink. If I up the voltage it will run at 1.6ghz. It runs at 58C at full load. Sounds a little warm, but it never crashes and has been like this for over a year now. In fact, a month ago I unplugged my two case fans because of the noise and now have just the PS fan cooling the PC and my temps went up only 1C on the case and CPU.