FSB Overclocking

[skybolt_1]

Can overclocking your FSB kill your PCI cards? I have a Giga-Byte GA-7VRX with a Athlon XP 2100+ I tried overclocking it via the FSB, and after about 12 trys I had to re-activate Windows.

Now, the Device Manager does not show either my sound card or my Ethernet card, both of which were fine before.

Are PCI devices common fatalities of overclocking? Or is this something weird within windows?

Also, what are the chances that I damanged my DDR RAM? I didn't increase the voltage to it or anything, and it is good stuff - Crucial.

skybolt_1

[MitaDC]

Well how high did u try to clock your cpu? I believe the older mobo's had it so the PCI was effected but I don't think the newer ones do that.

[Sixpac_XP]

Don't know what kind of motherboard you have but when you overclock you should make sure you lock your PCI to 33/66 mhz or you could damage some cards if they are clocked to high.

The newer motherboards have this option to lock the PCI ratio.

[rrcn]

I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L (up to 333 FSB) and know that I CAN'T lock the AGP or PCI frequencies. I checked out your board and I think its older than mine because your's handles processors with 200/266 FSB, so from that I'm guessing that you cannot lock your pci or agp frequencies either.

[skybolt_1]

I don't have any option to lock PCI frequencies... So they probably are fried?

They don't show up in the windows device manager at all!

skybolt_1

[rrcn]

Try reinstalling them. See what happens.

[skybolt_1]

I tried re-installing - no dice.

I pulled them both, and put in a new PCI network card I had lying around - a microsoft MS-130 I believe.

Detected and installed, first boot. So the cards definately got fried.

Now, something else weird is happening. Every few minutes, SEEMINGLY randomly, the "A network cable has been unplugged" message comes up from the taskbar. It disappears within half a second. I don't seem to be actually getting any kind of disconnect, but its annoying as hell.

Is this a sign of damage to the PCI bus? Or is this an annoyance factor built into windows?

Thanks for all the help so far!

skybolt_1

[skybolt_1]

^bump^

Any input for the network cable unplugged message?

[Smidley]

I'm not new to forums of any kind so I should know this, but what does "bump" mean?

I assume it's to get the thread to the top of the forum but I could be wrong...

Thanks

[rrcn]

Your correct Smidley, its to get the thread to the top of the forum again.

I think your on board NIC has been damaged, that's why your getting a "unplugged" message everytime. That shouldn't happen normally. Do you have the two computers showing on your taskbar? If you go to Network connections, then right click on your LAN connection, properties, then on the general tab, uncheck "Show icon in notification area when connected." Since your not getting disconnected then you shouldnt have a problem, but see if that'll get rid of the "unplugged" message your getting.

HTH.