Overclocking help - Athlon XP 2600

Hello everyone. My dorm had a brown out and my computer was stuck in a
continuous reboot cycle for a few minutes. When I powered it up later
I noticed it was running at 1.2 GHz. I guess the overclock settings
got reset at some point. I tried changing the front side bus speed
first to 166 and later to 133 MHz (with multiplier set to auto), and
the system appeared to be running faster, but every time I tried it I
got random lockups within 20 seconds of Windows loading. Is there
another setting somewhere that I need to set?

Thanks for the help.

Benjamin Stauffer )
Computer Science
University of Missouri-Rolla

CPU-Z 1.38 report file
Processor(s)
Number of processors 1
Number of cores 1 per processor
Number of threads 1 (max 1) per processor
Name AMD Athlon XP
Code Name Barton
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) XP
Package Socket A (462)
Family/Model/Stepping 6.A.0
Extended Family/Model 7.A
Core Stepping
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 1150.8 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 11.5 x 100.1 MHz
Rated Bus speed 200.1 MHz
Instruction sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE
L1 Data cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line
size
L2 cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Chipset & Memory
Northbridge VIA KT600 rev. 80
Southbridge VIA VT8237 rev. 00
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 2.0
AGP Transfer Rate 4x
AGP Side Band Addressing not supported, not enabled
Memory Type DDR
Memory Size 1024 MBytes
Memory Frequency 133.4 MHz (FSB + 33 MHz)
DRAM Interleave 4-way
CAS# Latency (tCL) 2.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRDC) 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 3 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 6 clocks
System
System Manufacturer MSI
System Name MS-7021
System S/N 00000000
Mainboard Vendor MSI
Mainboard Model MS-7021
BIOS Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version Version 07.00T
BIOS Date 04/02/01
Memory SPD
Module 1 DDR, PC3200 (200 MHz), 512 MBytes, unknown brand
Module 2 DDR, PC3200 (200 MHz), 512 MBytes, unknown brand
Software
Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build
2600)
DirectX Version 9.0c

wrote:
Hello everyone. My dorm had a brown out and my computer was stuck in a
continuous reboot cycle for a few minutes. When I powered it up later
I noticed it was running at 1.2 GHz. I guess the overclock settings
got reset at some point. I tried changing the front side bus speed
first to 166 and later to 133 MHz (with multiplier set to auto), and
the system appeared to be running faster, but every time I tried it I
got random lockups within 20 seconds of Windows loading. Is there
another setting somewhere that I need to set?

Thanks for the help.

Benjamin Stauffer )
Computer Science
University of Missouri-Rolla

CPU-Z 1.38 report file
Processor(s)
Number of processors 1
Number of cores 1 per processor
Number of threads 1 (max 1) per processor
Name AMD Athlon XP
Code Name Barton
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) XP
Package Socket A (462)
Family/Model/Stepping 6.A.0
Extended Family/Model 7.A
Core Stepping
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 1150.8 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 11.5 x 100.1 MHz
Rated Bus speed 200.1 MHz
Instruction sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE
L1 Data cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line
size
L2 cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Chipset & Memory
Northbridge VIA KT600 rev. 80
Southbridge VIA VT8237 rev. 00
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 2.0
AGP Transfer Rate 4x
AGP Side Band Addressing not supported, not enabled
Memory Type DDR
Memory Size 1024 MBytes
Memory Frequency 133.4 MHz (FSB + 33 MHz)
DRAM Interleave 4-way
CAS# Latency (tCL) 2.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRDC) 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 3 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 6 clocks
System
System Manufacturer MSI
System Name MS-7021
System S/N 00000000
Mainboard Vendor MSI
Mainboard Model MS-7021
BIOS Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version Version 07.00T
BIOS Date 04/02/01
Memory SPD
Module 1 DDR, PC3200 (200 MHz), 512 MBytes, unknown brand
Module 2 DDR, PC3200 (200 MHz), 512 MBytes, unknown brand
Software
Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build
2600)
DirectX Version 9.0c

You need to reduce your multiplier and probably increase your voltage.
Did someone else do the overclock for you the first time?

-Dylan C

I bought the computer used, so I believe it was already done.

Dylan C wrote:

You need to reduce your multiplier and probably increase your voltage.
Did someone else do the overclock for you the first time?

-Dylan C