You'd think I've been around here long enough that I wouldn't need to post these anymore. Well, unfortunately this isn't the case. After a long hiatus I was bitten by the overclocking bug again and went way too fast.

I kept my CPU (A64 3800+ venice) at stock voltage, upped the fsb to 205 (from 200), dropped the trcd (I think) to 2 instead of the 3 it was at. I've got the corsair 3200 2-2-2-5 sticks, running at 2.9v. Windows booted just fine.

So I got greedy and decided to crank up my BFG 6800 GT OC (with zally fan) up to 400 and 1100 (according to Mot's speeds). I ran 3dmark 2005 and started seeing artifacts so I quit that quickly and went to nTune to check the temps, went to the wrong thing and decided "what the hey" and let it try to autotune. So then I see a garbled pattern instead o f my screen consisting of barf green, yellow, black, and maybe some red. She seemed frozen.

So I try and reboot and.... nothing. Hard drive clicks, Ram lights go on for a minute, but no signal to my monitor, no activity on the ram lights. So I did the CMOS jumper, same as before. Fans go on, ram seems to go for a minute, hard drive sounds like it's seeking, but nothing after that. Diagnostic LEDs on the motherboard (Lanparty SLI-DR) were four red lights.

I felt the video card and it wasn't especially hot, and I'm sure I've done uglier things to my processor before. This doesn't add up at all to me. Though I definitely went a little faster than I should have, I don't exactly think I was being brutal to my hardware

Also, once we've got this figured out, is there nvidia equivalent to ATItool yet?

Well crap, fixed my own problem. Looks like it was the old problem I forgot about, where my video card doesn't sit right on the motherboard and makes my computer angry. Still, my final question remains

rivatuner man. crank it and let it fly.

http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/

Quote: Originally Posted by _Sexy_Pants_ Still, my final question remains

Tried rivatuner? Has a shtload of tweaks. http://download.guru3d.com/rivatuner/

Quote: Originally Posted by Marc Tried rivatuner? Has a shtload of tweaks. http://download.guru3d.com/rivatuner/

Owned.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cyno01 Owned.

Yea he beat me to it, That'll teach me to get tied up in the middle of a post.

Quote: Originally Posted by _Sexy_Pants_ Well crap, fixed my own problem. Looks like it was the old problem I forgot about, where my video card doesn't sit right on the motherboard and makes my computer angry. Still, my final question remains

I've seen this problem before on someone elses' PC, it always takes me ages to remember what's wrong cos it's not very obvious.

hmm sexy the link works fine for me... anyway glad you got the prog, just have a benchy prog to run it on. i find that aquamark does a very good job at showing you where you haev issues as it tests individual functions and its short. riva tuner is hands down better than coolbits.

Yeah, link works now, I don't know. It's still not quite an ATI tool "set and leave" sort of thing, but it's working

Quote: Originally Posted by _Sexy_Pants_ Yeah, link works now, I don't know. It's still not quite an ATI tool "set and leave" sort of thing, but it's working

Rivatuner's the best one, but if you want just a simple OC tool try Coolbits