comp no longer overclocks

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as suggested by maverick im gonna ask for help.

My specs are:

Pentium 4 'E' 'prescott' skt478 - CM hiper 6 with ystech fan

Asus P4C800-E deluxe - Zero mods, stock chipset heatsink

Corsair XMS4000 pro - ran memtest for 36hours straight, no errors

Connect 3D agp X800XT with zalan VF700CU

Audigy 2 ZS - no mods

Enermax Noistaker 485W (rev2) - i used to havea 480w Collergiant V1

Maxtor 300gb Diamond Max 10

Western digital Caviar SE 200gb both hdd are sata, maxtor on fastrak western digital on ich5r southbridge controller

i had an 8gb diamond max lpus 9 maxtor but removed it

I used to run it at 3.5 fully stable but hten bumped it up to 3.8fully stable, tried to get to 4ghz, got to 3.939 and it corrupted my hard disk (the maxtor 80) so i ditched it, after that, i had to drop it down to 3.8 but then it got unstable at 3.8 so dropped it to 3.5 a few weeks later it was unstable so i dropped it to stock.

Help me it sucks being at stock, its like a kebab without salad.

i've turned into a silence freak now, im about to buy 2 silentmaxx silencers for my hard disks to quietn them and do a fan swpa on my noistaker.
 
Sounds weird - could also mean that something is part borked.

Not sure what to advise here, but could try:

Reflashing BIOS

Changing PSU

Removing non-essential stuff (leave one drive, graphics and 1 stick of ram but try both sticks separately) and then testing.

Also - reseat the northbridge cooler and cpu cooler.

Everything else seem okay.

Does the unit overclock so u can run memtest? If it does, the issue will be drive or OS related.

Mav
 
Dont sound too promising - possible northbridge overheated problem which in turn has caused some stability issues - are you still using the passive cooler supplied with the board?

I got a swiftech northbridge cooler which works really well, p4 ready too (with spring clips).

Check to see the temps or adjust the NB voltage to that item to see if it lets you overclock.

Cheers

Mav
 
well i had an XP120 and that cooked my northbridge to 45degrees so i got rid of it.was thinking of getting a new nb cooler, i reseated the stock nb cooler and stuck some AS5 on it. when i got this board and when it was overclocked nb temps sat at 23-27degrees now its a constant 35 degrees.
 
i dont belive the temperature of the nb to be the problem, i had the vcore at 1.6+ think it coulda burnt something out, it is on air afterall.
 
It's doubtful but everything is possible really.

Best way to check is to buy or borrow another compatable CPU and see if you can pump it up past stock.

CPU's are tough and can take a lot of abuse - on the other hand motherboards are not so good (I have blown 6 mobo's this year, 3 were my fault 3 were not).

Then again 1.6v on air is quite a lot - but providing load and idle temps were no worse than those produced when using the Intel HSF runnign the CPU at stock I don't see that the CPU will be borked.

Let us know how u get on.
 
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