O/C PIII 700 to 868 and........

[DTS]

I recently purchased a PIII 700E and overclocked it to 868 right out of the box. I had absolutely no problems for about two weeks. I was using an Alpha h/s with two fans for cooling. Cpu temps ran around 35 deg cent. But, I wanted more power!!! I installed a peltier with no problems I was thinking this would get me more. My cpu temps are now 23-25 deg cent. with the peltier.

It did temporarily. After a couple of hours at 931 my system kept crashing. I set the fsb back to 124 to run at 868. However, now I can't even run at that setting. The only fsb settings I can run at is 100 or lower. I can run below 100 with high pci settings and not have a problem so I don't think it is a hard drive problem or other pci device. I think the V3 would also not have a problem with over 100 fsb.

Any suggestions as to why I can not go back to 124 fsb?

PIII 700E
Asus P3BF
V3 3000 AGP
128M Mushkin memory
SB Live Value
Maxtor 13.6 HD


Thanks.

[BBA]

It's my guess you need to return the CPU as defective. I have seen this once before with a Coppermine. It WAS the CPU....

[suckerpuppy]

Yup, you just wasted your 700e Copper. Uuuuh I would have cried for hours.

[Apostle 83]

I overclock. But here's the deal. If you overclock, you should be willing to accept it if you fry something. It would be wrong to return a chip because of something YOU did.

[Missing the point]

Just bring it back, and say that you played a little UT for a while, but then when you restarted, it would not run.

I fried my Viper V770 Video card, but I just acted calmly, and brought it back. No questions asked. Just hope that they do the same........

[DTS]

Update...I reseated the CPU again, (I had already tried that once before) and now everything is running fine again at 868. I am not sure if that is the final solution, but I will take it while I can get it.

Also, I agree with the statements about not returning a fried o/c cpu. When you o/c, you take risks. It is your problem, not the place where you purchased it from. It's like stealing and ends up costing all of us more $ in the end.

[alpha]

Swaping chips you pi$$ed up is wrong. Rip off the stupid peltier and try it again.