3000+ Winchester Chronicles

[Siddy]

Hi, im doing a bit of o/c'ing with my A8N-Sli Deluxe AMD 64 3000+ Winchester, stock 200Mhz x 9multi 1.39v-core @ 29 oC. Took it to 267 x9 and auto'ed v-core at 1.48v @ 34oC.
Thats pretty amazing, all i did was press a button, didnt even change heatsink or fan.
Although its relativly stable and still very cool, "ScienceMark 2.0" gives me the BSOF or an instant reboot when running a benchmark test on the CPU. 3Dmark05 is fine, SiSoftware Sandra is fine, but ScienceMark2.0 (probably the most performance taxing) crashed.

So, i tried differnt Mhz x multiplier compo's, mainly tried tested and backed ones on the net which are almost guarrentied to work. Nun of these can pass Science Mark2.0, although on the net they are using it to benchmark.

So naturally, feeling like a failure, i took it back to 200Mhz and auto v-core (1.39v).
"What the heek, ill run ScienceMark2.0 on my stock 4yr old cpu and see what i get" (i only jsut discovered SciMrk2.0 so never used it b4).
BUT it still crashed!!! BSOFD NOOOO......!!!!!

Can anyone say Y, or tell me how to fix it? - have i damaged my old Winchester?
(i tried to cut down on the info to make it a quick read, but if u need more info ask)
A8N-Sli deluxe - BIOS 1011

 

[Furen]

which motherboard?

EDIT: by the way, I dont think you've damaged your cpu, you'd probably get instability way before damaging it.

 

[Siddy]

soz, forgot to put mobo, edited now.
A8N-Sli Deluxe - BIOS 1011 (vr 11)

 

[Siddy]

bump

 

[Siddy]

Summary, my STOCK 3000+ Winchester fu*ks up with ScienceMark2.0, reboot or Blue Screen of Death!
Any help?

 

[thegimp03]

Run Prime95 for 10-12 hours and see if it passes it. If it doesn't pass it then you're not stable. I've never heard of ScienceMark2.0, but I'm not a huge benchmarker either. I do know that Prime95 is the standard in seeing if your oc is stable. Good luck. By the way, 2.4 ghz should be very do-able with that Winchester. My 3000+ runs it on stock cooling just fine, but I'm currently running the processor at stock due to it being summer and 110 degrees here.

 

[AkumaX]

hard drive corruption. when you had your cpu at 267, it could have been too fast and messed up some files in science mark, or even windows

 

[Siddy]

I c, thanks for the replys, does that mean i have to format AlumaX?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

You will have to give it more vcore to get stable at that speed, 1.48 ain't enough for 267x9 in most cases, try 1.525. And use Prime95 to test for stability, it will give errors and stop before it crashes.

 

[Siddy]

cool, how long with Prime95 take to tell me any errors?

 

[CCityInstaller]

Siddy, if the processor isnt stable, it will let you know sometimes in as little as a minute. The longer the test will run, the better. When o/cing my A64 processors, I ran Prime95 with the SFFT option for over 12 hours, then ran the Blend test for at least 12 hours as well. I would also recommend running the 32M option in SuperPi to ensure that your ram is 100% stable.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
hard drive corruption. when you had your cpu at 267, it could have been too fast and messed up some files in science mark, or even windows

Are the SATA locks working properly?

 

[Siddy]

SATA locks???

 

[GuitarDaddy]

As long as your overclocking using the bios the locks work automatically on this board

 

[Siddy]

Cool, how long do i sun SuperPi for?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

When preliminarily testing your O/C I run it for like 2hrs, but once you think you've got your max overclock run it at least 12hrs, or even 24hrs. If its 100% stable it will run forever with no errors