On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote: <snip> > Well, all is well with the system now but I will still need a new mobo to take > advantage of the CPU. I have finally figured out the trick to "overclocking" > the system and have found that this board will simply not do an FSB of 133 > Mhz. Setting the frequency to 133 prevents the computer from even attempting > to post. I cannot even get to bios to reset it. I have to unplug the system > and pull the bios battery to reset the bios to defaults so I can boot up > again. I have since successfully bumped the FSB up to a mere 110 Mhz. I > will try bumping it up again and again until it fails and just go below that. > > This board wont even handle what the MSI sites say it will. It is supposedly > capable of using up to an XP 2600+ which requires an FSB higher than this > thing can actually handle. > I haven't been following this thread closely, but are you sure that you haven't got an old sound card, network card, or something else that is not handling the 133MHz bus speed?
Just guessing, as I have had a similar problem in the past with older cards. Cheers, John...
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