new system obstacles

[allmytopos]

Tonight I put together a system from all new hardware. It is my first AMD system actually, heres the specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ "Barton"
1 x 512 MB Mushkin 2700 (blue)
Gigabyte 9600 XT
WD 80GB SE
ASUS A7N8X-X

After all the hardware was installed, I booted up and had to adjust the CPU Ext Modifier to get the correct Processor Speed (at first it said 1150 Mhz. Now its correctly at 2600+).

The RAM was displayed as operating at 100Mhz ??? So I some settings in BIOS that put it at 222 Mhz. I decided to wait til after I installed windows and could get some Benchmark software to give me more info on the RAM to adjust it anymore.

I began to load XP ,made partitions, etc, etc from the XP SP2 slipstreamed CD I made with the Toms Hardware slipstream instructions. The first time the screen came up "loading windows 39 min left..." there was an error message about an "improperly labeled driver" (First time I'd ever seen that.)

So I rebooted and because of what I was reading in the mobo manual I decided to adjust the RAM speed again. I turned it up several more percent than before and as the computer exited BIOS it made weird beeping noises and locked up.

Immediately after rebooting and going into BIOS I lowered the RAM settings back to {optimal} like the original 166Mhz. This enabled the computer to get back to loading windows.

At this point the computer came back to the screen "loading windows ** minutes to go..." a blue screen popped up and stated : "PHYSICAL MEMORY DUMP...reboot required." I rebooted and now no matter what I try the screen goes blank after the initial boot up screen.

The amount of RAM and CPU speed reads correct, all my drives read correctly (floppy, HD, CD) but right after the message "Verifying DMI pool........."
everything goes black and dosent respond to keyboard, mouse or drive activity.

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem?

Could I have fried my RAM?

Thanks in advance.

 

[o1die]

I would up the voltage on the ram to 2.6 or 2.7, and see if the problem goes away

 

[xeenrecoil]

heya allmy;

In my experiance its never a good idea to install a OS on a previously untested overclocked machine, you should always leave it at stock untill you know what the system is capable of being overclocked stable at then you can install an OS at the OCed settings.
You need to format and start over on the OS install.
Also your probably not going to get more then 12-15Mhz extra out of that ram without relaxing the timings quite a bit.
If you have any more problems let us know.

 

[Crashman]

Your RAM only runs 166MHz clock rate, or at least that's what it's rated as.

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[allmytopos]

Thanks for everyone's info on this, it's working now. I had to use XP boot disks for the first time but that whole accidentally overclocking thing was what really caused the problem.