Have I damaged my e2160?

[SideshowJoe]

Hi everyone, my first attempts at overclocking have left me a sad panda. I was tweaking my settings and was running at 300 FSB (2.7ghz) fine for a week, then I decided to up it to 400, and the computer didn't boot, so I restart it, and it automatically defaulted the settings (a phenomenon it has yet to repeat). Now I can't go over 233 FSB without instant BSOD, and even 222 was BSODing after 2 hours of gaming. Every time I went too far I had to move the CMOS jumper from 1-2 to 2-3 and back.

I'm using an abit IB9 motherboard with 2g of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 RAM.

Video card is geForce 8500GT, sound card is Sound Blaster 4.

I was going to try reflashing the bios to see if that did anything, but I figured I'd ask first, so thanks in advanced.

EDIT: Also I felt like it's worth mentioning that CPU-Z says my multiplier is 6.0, even though I have my settings on "default" with means it should be 9.0.

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

first of all dont jump FSB by 100! Manually reset your bios again to then see if you can go to 300 again

 

[Mr Cipher]

I think if you're idling and you have the power saving options on (speedstep and C1E I believe their called, please correct me if I'm wrong anyone) it will bring your multiplier down to save on the power draw. Then when you're under load it will put it up again to serve whatever apps are using the CPU.

 

[SideshowJoe]

Thanks to both of you. I disabled Speedstep, and the multiplier stays 9 now. But I've tried resetting my bios in every way I could think, other than reflashing them. I've put the jumper from 1-2 to 2-3, just took it out, and reset the bios with the bios menu. I still can't reach 233+ FSB.

 

[Mr Cipher]

I tried researching this board online, and there really isn't much written about it.

Some individuals commented about a version 1.3 bios that fixed some issues, but that was almost 5-6 months ago now.

Maybe the 300mhz to 400mhz jump damaged something, if the voltage went high enough.

On that note, you might want to try upping the voltage by 1 notch to see if that will get you over 233mhz - sometimes components need coaxing. Though you mentioned you got it to 300mhz before...I'm rather new to OC'ing so I'm out of ideas.

Good luck.

 

[SideshowJoe]

Well, I managed to boot windows at 233 at 1.4v, but I couldn't get anything over that up to 1.45v, and at 233 the thing BSOD'd after about 3 seconds of orthos. If it matters at all my default voltage for cpu is 1.325.

 

[colster]

You may need more volts to the memory some mobo default to 1.8v and may need more with some mem. Can you lower the multi from 9x to 8x and try setting the FSB straight to 300 and see if this works but make sure you disable C1E, function in the bios and their may be other function you need to turn off as well.

 

[Mr Cipher]

if you have the 4-4-4-12-2t memory, it boots up at JEDEC voltage specs, which is lower than the EPS rated 2.1 for that memory (I think JEDEC specs for DDR2 is 1.8v? Anyone correct me if I'm wrong).

If your memory is the 5-5-5-12-2t version, then the voltage is 1.9v.

So as Colster said, it may be worth pushing some voltage into your memory esp. considering they are rated higher than 1.8.

 

[SideshowJoe]

Thanks for the responses.

I tried setting the mult at 8 and FSB at 300, but no luck. I couldn't find a c1e function in my bios, and a google search said the bios after version 1.1 remove c1e function, so I guess I'll try downgrading tommorow.
I also tried setting the memory at 1.9, then 2.0, and had no luck.

 

[SideshowJoe]

Well, I went back to 1.1 bios version today, still couldn't find the option, but it can go back to 300x9 now. So thanks for everything =D