Overclocking and cold boot alarm although o/c infact stable.

[megatron]

Overclocking my xp2400+ causes the bios to alarm on cold boot. Its ok with a reset and maybe a soft off but and PSU off and it don't like it. A bios reset is in order here. This kinda puts a dampner on the overclocking fronts. It seems to effect the overclock which needs 1.925v rather than an overclock which needs 1.85v. I have the epox 8rda2c16 bios . Not only that it have seemed to frig over my router. I just twigged it was the router when I had a brainstorm and connected the ethernet directly to the cable modem and it worked. Then I unplugged the router, plug back in and reset it. Then after a reboot or two it works.

I thought my win xp network settings were to blame. The root cause was overclocking and reseting the bios after it triggered an alarm. What gives?

[megatron]

I need a second opinion about this. Should I expect this kind of trouble from overclocking my CPU?

[megatron]

I read a thread on another forum about a similar problem and it suggested turning off the bios temp warnings. This has so far solved my problems. 2339Mhz with 22'c cpu temp watercooled.

[N8]

Yea, I have that same problem on my duallie. It runs stable, I think the temp sensor is faulty. I only get the alarm upon reboot, so if I shut down then power back up, I don't get it. This is with it disabled in the BIOS too. Good luck

[Firelord-OCHW]

I get warm boot problems when running my KG7 RAID above 167FSB. I think its problem is the mem voltage as above 2.92 it does it.

I can run it 2.85v but its unstable so I run it at 2.92v.

Not bad for such an old board :p

[antipop]

Originally posted by Firelord-OCHW
I get warm boot problems when running my KG7 RAID above 167FSB. I think its problem is the mem voltage as above 2.92 it does it.

I can run it 2.85v but its unstable so I run it at 2.92v.

Not bad for such an old board :p

I've had the same problem when i was running my board at 170MHz, i don't know if it's the ram (i'm using pc2100 at cas2) or the mobo. I personnaly think that the mobo can't easily handle such fsb