I was so stupid

[RedRaider]

I listened to you guys and brought two of those Intel 550@100 Celerons that can be easily underclocked to 366@66, plus a Abit BP6. Well, true, I have no problems running it underclocked to 366, but had never had any luck to run it at it normal 550@100. Underclocking to 468@83 seems OK if not my Hard Drive can't handle the 41.5MHz and corrupts my Windows system files and registry every other week, and I have to reinstall the OS again and again.

Am I stupid or what.

[This message has been edited by RedRaider (edited 04-12-2000).]

[otheos]

This is a joke right?
The Celeron is normal at 366/66 and overclocked at 550/100. No one guarantees they will be overclockable @ 550 unless you bought them from a specific retailer that pretests them and certifies them.
I'm sure you are joking so I will not carry on.

[oblivion]

Did you up the cpu core voltage for added stability?

[mushi]

Celerons at a stock 100 mhz bus? Sure.... This was not even very funny, please don't do this again.

[Target]

Lets cut this guy some slack and give him the benefit of the doubt....... sounds like he just had his understanding backwards is all.

RedRaider, if this is not a joke or sarcastic post, then please respond so that those who have had success in setting theirs up can assist you.

[RedRaider]

OK, the story is true. And I am really having truble to get my celeron 366s overclocked stable enough.

I think the main problem is the PCI splitter, it's set to 1/2 all the way up 91MHz, although my CPU could handle 5.5x83 and probably 90x83, my hard drive is essed to death. Every once a while I have corrupted system files and registry and it won't boot (Win98 and Win2K).

At 92x5.5, 1/3 PCI, 2.3v system is stable for the first five minutes. I am using air cooling and not interested in any advanced tech on coolings. (hey did you read post from that crazy guy try to invent a freon cooling system himself, and i had that idea I was a kid)

Will SCSI be more stable at high PCI clock? I have a 2940 and 10GB Seagate drive laying around...

[neo_otyugh]

i would think that 100 would be more stable than the 83-95...at 100 you bus speeds should drop to normal again...
at 83 your pci bus is 41.5 and thta is pretty high and you will have a lot of disk/data errors. at 100 it should drop back to 33...

[Eli]

Did you upgraded your cooling system at all when you tried overclocking to the 100MHz FSB?

[ajf]

To mimic neo I think the 100 fsb would be more stable even though it is higher. I experienced this with my Abit BH6 and celeron 333. It was jerky but worked at 5X83 but has run stable at 5X100 for weeks. And this is with the stock cooling.

[RedRaider]

The system has no vital signs at 5.5x100, tried as high as 2.3v.

[This message has been edited by RedRaider (edited 04-12-2000).]

[John Bernard]

Try disabling UDMA of the harddrive from the BIOS. This may help in order to get rid of the harddrive corrupting the data. If it still won't work, try lowering the PIO mode. EG: from 4 to 3, etc.