I have a PII 400MHZ that will run stable as hell at 4x120=480... (on an ASUS P2B-f MB, 128MB PC133 Crucial RAM, old Matrox Mill II, CL AWE32) but for some reason the thing will not run stable at 496. It will, however, do most everything fine until I run the quake demo2 about 2 times. I believe the temperature is about 45 degrees C, from my ASUS CPU temp monitor. My question is: if my comp will run fine until I get into quake, is this an indication that the graphics card cannot take the higher bus speed? If I go to a 133MHZ FSB, at a 44MHZ PCI bus speed the system will not even POST. In fact, when I turn the power button on the power supply comes on, but there is NO video (this supports my theory). Contradicting my theory is the fact that when I run it at a 133FSB, but at a 33MHZ bus the machine does the exact same thing. Both times at a 133MHZ FSB my computer will not turn off by hitting the power button, I have to shut off the power strip to get it to turn off. I have a VEK12 on the way, so better cooling is in the works if thats what you think the problem is.
UPDATE****************
hehe Here's an update: I just got my VEK12 from cooltech, and my processor runs at max 38 degrees C, a good 7 degrees lower that before with the retail setup. This didn't solve my problem, though. At 496MHZ Quake just exits the program and I'm back into window clean as a whistle after two timedemo demo2's. I can run windows fine. In fact, I'm typing this at 496 right now. I did try one more thing: when running prime95 on my 480MHZ system the system runs rock solid, no errors. Now when I run it on the 496MHZ it halts the torture test after one iteration claiming there has been a round off error. Does prime95 perform similar calculations that would be done for quake, or what? I know prime95 doesn't use the graphics card much...
Well, my RAM is rated at PC133 through Crucial Tech. I think it SHOULD handle the 124MHZ speed. I tried changing my L2 latency with WCPUL2. I got it to change from 7 to 8 and the computer lasted a lot longer - running through at least 5 timedemos before exiting. When I turn the L2 cache to OFF the computer goes through about 12 timedemos, then quake exits. I cannot set the L2 any higher without the system rebooting. I'm not quite sure what the problem is here... Are there designated values the L2 will run at? Thanks (BTW Im back at 480 4 now)
Any Thoughts????
-neo
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Asus P2B-F, 400MHZ Pentium II (O/C to 480!!), 128MB Micron PC133, Maxtor 4GB, SB AWE 32, Sony Trinitron 17", Old Matrox Video Card
UPDATE****************
hehe Here's an update: I just got my VEK12 from cooltech, and my processor runs at max 38 degrees C, a good 7 degrees lower that before with the retail setup. This didn't solve my problem, though. At 496MHZ Quake just exits the program and I'm back into window clean as a whistle after two timedemo demo2's. I can run windows fine. In fact, I'm typing this at 496 right now. I did try one more thing: when running prime95 on my 480MHZ system the system runs rock solid, no errors. Now when I run it on the 496MHZ it halts the torture test after one iteration claiming there has been a round off error. Does prime95 perform similar calculations that would be done for quake, or what? I know prime95 doesn't use the graphics card much...
Well, my RAM is rated at PC133 through Crucial Tech. I think it SHOULD handle the 124MHZ speed. I tried changing my L2 latency with WCPUL2. I got it to change from 7 to 8 and the computer lasted a lot longer - running through at least 5 timedemos before exiting. When I turn the L2 cache to OFF the computer goes through about 12 timedemos, then quake exits. I cannot set the L2 any higher without the system rebooting. I'm not quite sure what the problem is here... Are there designated values the L2 will run at? Thanks (BTW Im back at 480 4 now)
Any Thoughts????
-neo
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Asus P2B-F, 400MHZ Pentium II (O/C to 480!!), 128MB Micron PC133, Maxtor 4GB, SB AWE 32, Sony Trinitron 17", Old Matrox Video Card
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