aXeRs Mach2

[aXeR]

I took delivery of my shiny new Mach2 unit (cudnt afford a GT tho now after seeing phils temps at his extreme overclosk i wish i had of wiated )

Anyway i have a 3ghz SL6WK that i was using for this overclock, an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard and a pari of Geil PC 3500 Platinum Ultra sticks of ram.

The Lowdown:

Ok i did just about everything that can go wrong, wrong last night, ask phil he was the one on MSN helping me

After about 3 hours i managed to get the mach2 to boot my PC (im not going to go into why I couldnt before, its embarassing)

I booted right up at -35-40deg C.

I decided to go straight to 3.8ghz (knowing my PC wud crash at this before) CPU on idle was about -30, i loaded prime95 and after about a minute my PC crashed. I knocked the clock down to 3.725Ghz and my PC seems to be stablish (from the 15-20 mins i waited) but my CPU temp shot right up to 20c a raise of around 50degC so im thinking maybe i dont have an excellent contact (will look at this tonight) I still think my CPU is naff tho, so am gonna sort something out about a different one

I will post pictures when i get home

 

[standin wave]

pls tell

aXeR - honest, it would be useful to the rest of the forum to post what went wrong else one day Phil will throw a wobbler! You could possibly win a tic-tac for your confessions!

sw

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

tic-tac sent.

 

[aXeR]

Ok, well i did a few things wrong:

1.) I forgot to put on the +5v line so i got the error "NO SHUT DOWN"

2.) I cabled upthe computer "reset" switch to the prommie as aposed to the "pwr" switch

3.) I cabled the yellow wire going from the prommie which is supposed to go to the pwr button pins on the mobo header to the reset switch instead

4.) I cabled the Prommie to PC power jumper the wrong way around

5.) On numerous ocasions I forgot to turn the PC PSU on

Funny thing is, this all happened at different times, did'nt all happen at once so it took seriously a good 3 hours to actually manage to do it correctly, poor phil must of been doing hit nut

Anyway im oficialy EP's own n00b

 

[aXeR]

Ok this is where I am at at the moment, bwr has suggested a few things to try wen i get home due to high temps wen on load:

As you can see at 3.6 on idle i get arround -32 on load i get +20 :S

 

[Brwmogazos]

Ok, well i did a few things wrong:

1.) I forgot to put on the +5v line so i got the error "NO SHUT DOWN"

2.) I cabled upthe computer "reset" switch to the prommie as aposed to the "pwr" switch

3.) I cabled the yellow wire going from the prommie which is supposed to go to the pwr button pins on the mobo header to the reset switch instead

4.) I cabled the Prommie to PC power jumper the wrong way around

5.) On numerous ocasions I forgot to turn the PC PSU on

Funny thing is, this all happened at different times, did'nt all happen at once so it took seriously a good 3 hours to actually manage to do it correctly, poor phil must of been doing hit nut

Anyway im oficialy EP's own n00b

i went to bed earlier

so could u tell me a bit more about prob no 1

and for prob no 4? what were the effects of doing so?

 

[mcmad]

Ok, well i did a few things wrong:

1.) I forgot to put on the +5v line so i got the error "NO SHUT DOWN"

2.) I cabled upthe computer "reset" switch to the prommie as aposed to the "pwr" switch

3.) I cabled the yellow wire going from the prommie which is supposed to go to the pwr button pins on the mobo header to the reset switch instead

4.) I cabled the Prommie to PC power jumper the wrong way around

5.) On numerous ocasions I forgot to turn the PC PSU on

Funny thing is, this all happened at different times, did'nt all happen at once so it took seriously a good 3 hours to actually manage to do it correctly, poor phil must of been doing hit nut

Anyway im oficialy EP's own n00b

LMAO,,

that bloke has the patience of a saint !

I would have mysteriously lost my msn connection after about 30 minutes..

lol, good to see you making 'im work for the money m8 & glad you got sorted.

 

[aXeR]

exactly the same problem as wen i cabled the power and reset cable the wrong way around, the mach unit boots up ok, but after it reached -35 the PC wudnt boot up and the mach2 unit goes on standby

 

[standin wave]

aXeR Thanx for yr honesty! They all sound very easy to do, especially when you've been at work all day and are rushing trying to get going!

sw

 

[aXeR]

to begin with wen following the instructions i was taking it nice and slow making sure i didnt miss anything out (btw imo i think the instructions are so badly wiriten, the wording is terrible ) and we it gets to the cable section it just syas "now ure ready to wire it in and fire it up" - WTF! lol but yeah i was tired from work and eager plus i just had some bad news of some1 buying something off of me via paypal with fraudalent funds

 

[aXeR]

Im so happy today, ive got all my Mach2 up and running properly, got my CPU running at 3.9Ghz with 1.8V going into it, it fluxuates like a ***** when running prime 95 which cuases it to rbeoot after a while, a droop shud fix this which means id be able to lower the voltage too.

Unfortunately it seems my CPU aint up to running much past 260 FSB as i cant get to 266 which is 4Ghz so im gonna prolly be selling this chipp soon

@ 3.9Ghz with 1.8 going thru it my Mach2 is idling at -52C, my CPU is at -39C and on load it averages about -18, MUCH better than yesterday my Mach2 is getting friendly now

and the display says "aXeR OwnZ U"

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