[cspm2003]

hey guys, I just got my new mainboard today abit nf7-s . I allready installed windows and now have a few questions/problems:

question 1: what is the green and red light on the mobo for?
question 2: when I run the abit eq in windows, my computer starts making this really anoying sounds, and I dont know why or if this is good or bad

Problems: when I overclock my cpu, windows wont start. I see the windows logo while booting, then a short blue screen and then it just restarts. I've tryed to set the FSB to 140 and the multiplier to 15 for the start, so then I should get a cpu speed of 2100MHZ. (btw. I have an athlon xp 2400+)


any help please

[XtremeMaC]

athlon xp 2400+'s clock is something like 1800.
check if your mobo supports it.
I've asus A7V8X with 2500+. it doesn't boot up and makes the noises. then resets it self back to 10.5 on multiplier

abit eq? equation?? equal?
if it makes sounds I don't think its good. esp if they're coming from pc speaker..
what speed are your rams? I've 2700. u might need 3200 for overclocking..

refer to tomshardware.

[cspm2003]

the default speed from the 2400 is 2ghz. It should run on 2.1ghz with no problems. abit eq is software abit supplies to monitor voltages, fan speeds, and temps. the sound doesn't sound good at all.

[cspm2003]

also, I noticed that when I change the fsb speed, the memory frequency goes up aswell. can this cause any problem? should I lock the memory speed? if so, how?

[Famer]

If you really want to cool it try the waterchill unit by Vapochill or you could just vapochill it and have a blast


any how i hope you get it stable good luck

[cspm2003]

well, seams like my memory needed a little more juce. I adjusted the voltage to 1.8 from 1.7volts, and now everything seems to work fine on fsb settings of 140. I'm gona see how high I can bring it. I dont have very good cooling in the moment, so I'm kinda limited

[XtremeMaC]

are u use the default is 2.0 ghz????
my 2500+ is set on 1833 default

edit: aa never mind stupid me u're right

This post has been edited by XtremeMaC: 27 January 2004 - 09:53 PM

[cspm2003]

hehe, ok. I've played cs for about an hour, no crashes. pcmark 2001 ran flawless aswell. the temp is constant at 53 degree C

[XtremeMaC]

I just remembered my cpu heats so much bc of the desktops current position and bad fan placement. so since I'm not using it (my parents are) I had lowered it.
u still playing cs? hasn't it bored anyone yet? I played 1.6 when it was in beta. after that got bored. moved onto battlefield .
53 is bad! but for a overclocked it might be okay.
I think mine was 53-55 when 1833 but that was in summer. the place where I have my desktop is getting too much light from the sun
anyways when I checked it this winter (3 weeks ago) it was around 35-40 degrees !!!
I've to move my house around a bit eheh
:offtopic: is there a server u play often? maybe I'll go back to cs.

[cspm2003]

yeah, I know 53 aint this good, but without overclocking it's running at 48, so thats not a big difference. I have a real s***ty case and it heats up pretty bad. I'm getting a new one soon, so that problem will be gone.
Counter Strike is the only game I dont get sick of. I mostly play on <|BnB|> clan server, you can get their server info from www.jalabar.com . Maybe I"ll see u sometime in the game. if you install theme, just add me to your friends list. use this email address to add me: cspm2003@hotmail.nospam.com (without the nospam of course)

[prathapml]

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my 2500+ is set on 1833 default

Probably due to the Barton core.

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question 1: what is the green and red light on the mobo for?

Probably the diagnostic LEDs, just have a look at your manual.

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also, I noticed that when I change the fsb speed, the memory frequency goes up aswell

Yes that's the default behaviour. Normally on the overclocking section of the BIOS, you also have an option to lock the bus of the rest of the system and raise the CPU *alone*. Peek into your manual. And, yes I've heard that the Abit-NF7s is pretty friendly to overclockers.

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seems to work fine on fsb settings of 140

I've run my 2400+ up from its native frequency of 2GHz to 2340 MHz (153 MHz FSB), and it runs stable.
Did it on my MSI nF2 based board. I used just the standard fan that comes with the processor in the retail box pack (though I had my system cabinet kept open just in case it overheated) and it ran at 2.34 GHz at just 45C temperature.
Didn't use any special RAM modules, just the common PC2100. The MoBo takes care of the necessary voltage on mine. And didn't unlock the CPU multiplier, I just let it be as it is.
Keep in mind that even the AthlonXP 3200+ is clocked at just 2.25 GHz (but the difference being that it has 512KB L2 cache, FSB200, barton core).

[cspm2003]

I've set mine to 2.3 today and it just keep restarting. I put the voltage up a bit, and then windows loaded, but keept crashing. at what voltage did u put yours?

[SupaFly-TNT]

The red and green lights are good. The red light it just too darn bright though, messes up any mods you have inside. But long as they are on it means your good, if they go off then ya have a prob.

[prathapml]

Do you have a good PSU ? (a 400W or higher unit from known brands) A bad one could be the most likely reason.
What you are telling makes me almost certain that you didn't lock your memory bus speed (do that through BIOS, and you'll go far higher than its default of 2 GHz).
If you have a "real" or external AGP card, you need to lock its frequency also at default (Set "AGP Spread Spectrum" to disabled in the BIOS).


Important thing - don't ever push up your rating unless you're sure of the exact amount of juice it wants. Your Abit board is based on nForce2, and those boards normally have intelligent detection of the required voltage and supplies it automatically (leave the Vcore setting at "auto").

I didn't have to do anything special at all to overclock it to what is very near its rating (my 2400+ gives 2340 MHz, so that's a shortage of just 60MHz). It would be rock solid until 153 MHz FSB, but if pushed higher than that, windows wouldn't go beyond the boot-up logo. And we're probably lucky that we have a 2400+, because, it seems that the B0 stepping batch is widely seen in the 2400+ (the B0 is the production batch which is known to be easily overclockable - the other batches and the 2500+ and above Barton core based chips aren't easy to overclock).

[cspm2003]

when I leave the vcore voltage on auto I run into problems. 3dMark just crashes on me. I have a 500w power supply, it's not the best one, but it's not the cheapest one either. I have the FSB up to 150now, I allready tryed 153 but then again 3dMark would just crash. I'm gona see if I can tweak it a little bit more to break the 2.3ghz mark
SupaFly-TNT, If you run Abit EQ, why does it make those anoying noises?

[SupaFly-TNT]

I don't recall any noises with that application. Could be the undervolts to the vcore, the app doesn't read it right I believe. It could be an alarm setting that you may need to disable. Ill check it out tonight when I get home and see if i can reproduce the sounds.