hermeslyre
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Ok. I got my X2 3800+ this morning and installed it, blah, blah. It runs fine at stock, apart from being a little hot, and I installed the Dual-core optimizer, AMD dual-core drivers, and microsoft's hotfix. Time to get my hands dirty, I thought. I booted into bios and set my LDT (Htt multi) to 3 (my motherboard is capable of both 800 and 1000 HTT link speeds) put a 5/6 divider on my RAM, and set the HT to 220mhz. Didn't boot. Ok. I turn it down to 210 and it does. I decide to slowly work my way up to 220 and guess what? Still doesn't boot. I go on a rampage fine tuning all the setting, and after awhile end up booting into Windows @ 2.5ghz. I try out Orthos and it's stable. I play a game or two, still stable. I restart and it refuses to boot again.
Ok so at this point I'm crying, and lamenting at my bad fortune. I've gotten a voltage hungry chip. I set the voltage at the highest I think this chip can handle (1.5v) and push the HT to 2.6. It boots. Joyful hallelujah! I play some games and surf the net for alittle while, restart 3-4 times with a succesful POST. I decide I want to fine tune it a bit as Orthos brings on some mighty scary temps (80*c plus). I manage to take it down a notch to 1.475v and am pretty happy, it boots. I continue to stress-test. Come now. I just restarted and it refuses to Post. I return the voltage to 1.5. Nothing.
It sounds like a PSU problem at first, but I cannot see how. I've powered my single core at a higher voltage this entire time, no problems. Then I think of the chip, But it has a batch stepping of LCBQE, whih is great, known to reach 3.0ghz, and hit 2.8 with no volt increase.
Damnit, i'm tired and don't feel like thinking, can someone tell me what they think, and give me some advice on how to fix this? I don't have any money right now so a new PSU and HS/f will have to wait..
Me being very annoyed and tired I may have forgot vital details, don't hesitate to point out any holes.
Thanks
Ok so at this point I'm crying, and lamenting at my bad fortune. I've gotten a voltage hungry chip. I set the voltage at the highest I think this chip can handle (1.5v) and push the HT to 2.6. It boots. Joyful hallelujah! I play some games and surf the net for alittle while, restart 3-4 times with a succesful POST. I decide I want to fine tune it a bit as Orthos brings on some mighty scary temps (80*c plus). I manage to take it down a notch to 1.475v and am pretty happy, it boots. I continue to stress-test. Come now. I just restarted and it refuses to Post. I return the voltage to 1.5. Nothing.
It sounds like a PSU problem at first, but I cannot see how. I've powered my single core at a higher voltage this entire time, no problems. Then I think of the chip, But it has a batch stepping of LCBQE, whih is great, known to reach 3.0ghz, and hit 2.8 with no volt increase.
Damnit, i'm tired and don't feel like thinking, can someone tell me what they think, and give me some advice on how to fix this? I don't have any money right now so a new PSU and HS/f will have to wait..
Me being very annoyed and tired I may have forgot vital details, don't hesitate to point out any holes.
Thanks
.... im sure its fixable
