Biostar M7NCD AwardBIOS Help

[skybolt_1]

Hey everyone,

Just got myself a new Biostar M7NCD as a replacement for my gigabyte that I burned out by trying to OC.... I am having the damndest time trying to figure out cryptic BIOS settings.

Currently hooked into the board is a Athlon XP 2100+ with a 266 FSB, a stick of Crucial PC2700 512 meg, plus a Radeon 9800 Pro, and a Audigy.

The board's FSB is currently set on 100. It can go up to 200, in increments of 33. Since my last attempt at overclocking my Gigabyte resulted in a dead board, I am hesitent to set the FSB to anything that will 1: fry my PCI cards, and 2: fry my board.

With the above setup, what is a safe setting for my FSB?

Also, there is a setting in the BIOS that says "CPU Thermal-Throttling" and gives a percentage. What the heck does this do?

Thanks for any input you can give.

skybolt_1

[John Prophet]

Biostars are definitely not OC boards.

133 (266) is the speed for your cpu...but u can up the fsb some if u want to...I doubt the Biostar has voltage adjustments so you probably cant blow anything up.

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seems cpu thermal throttling doesnt have to do with thermal issues..hmm http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx...&var1=0&var2=7 but there could be some differences in terminology

best thing to do is look on the website for the manual and see whats up with it

[skybolt_1]

The manual is a poorly translated tome of uselessness. Absolutely no description of the functions at all.

So you think I can put it up to 133 without killing anything? How about 166?

skybolt_1

[John Prophet]

well its designed to be at 133 in order to get the proper speed out of it.

100 is for a duron.

it will POSSIBLY run at 166....but u dont have to jump so far at once..try it at, say, 145 first..then 155 mAYBE ETC

[skybolt_1]

The board doesn't seem to have any voltage adjustments... so you think that the likelyhood of me frying my soundcard is slim?

Another thing, I've been edging it up slowly, and I've gained like 170 mhz (started at 1730 up to 1900). The weird part here is that the BIOS reports that the proc is only at 22 C. I thought that seemed low so I did a finger-check on the heatsink, and it is definately around that temp. It's not very warm at all. I put on Arctic silver 5 and everything, is this a bad sign?

I think that the XP's have the temp sensor built into them, so if I screwed up with the heatsink (doubtful) I would get notice right?

skybolt_1