1700+ at the limit

[The Fishmeister]

Mr Anderson,

I think that Rave gave some good advice; as a fellow newbie I advocate caution. Blockers was kind enough to pass some advice to me recently for o/c a Barton xp 2600 on a KT6-Delta mobo, as did a few but remember these guys have the know how to sort out the probs. Don't mess with the pc until the deadlines are met or someone is on hand to help if things get sticky. Bit late now of course....But serves a a good reminderto other newbies on the pitfalls of tech joy!!
Good luck , I follow with interest your thread. Do let us know what happened.. :-)

[mr_anderson187]

ok guys, i know im sorta veering slightly of the HARDWARE AND OVERCLOCKING side of things, but this is because of it, lol

i got my mits on a xp pro cd

and i used a boot disk to give me a command line interface, and can access the files on the disk,

i think the most usefull file thats on it, is the setup.exe file

but when i tpye setup.exe it says

"this program cannot be run in dos mode,

what can i do please sum1 help, im in dire need of my pc.

[streetster]

get into d:\i386 (d: [enter], cd i386 [enter]) assuming d: is your cd drive,

type WINNT

viola

mark

[mr_anderson187]

ok thanks
i have a worse problem now

it says it needs a 330 megabyte or bigger hd, and says its unable to find such a hard drive, i think this is because when i booted up from thi boot disk, it installed its wee files, which are like 1 megabyte, and when i do the dir command, it asys theres like 904kbytes free, and the volume of c: drive is ram drive, what should i do, anybody know?

[mr_anderson187]

ok, so i formatted my 40gb hd, and in the help file from my boot disk, it says tot tpye sys d:

because d is the drive letter, as it moved them all forward

when i type this it says CANNOT SPECIFY A DEFAULT DRIVE

plz can anybody help, this sys program, copies the fiels over to my hd, and makes it into a hd again, so i can then install xp, i just need to get this little bit sorted

plz plz plz help

[streetster]

do you have a windows98 cd, so that you can boot to dos, and sort it all out from there? this boot disk your friend made seems a bit sketchy tbh, cos its not letting you install windows easily.

mark

[mr_anderson187]

ok so i got the hd formated, and i installed the windows, sortof, it copied siome files then stopped doin nethin, and said it was copying fiesl, so i rebooted, when i reboot without the boot disk in the drive and the cd n the drive it brought up the windows xp installer, but when i go to install it, it says it cannot find the end user lisence agreement

anyone got any ideas?

[streetster]

do a quick format of the harddrive and start again (format c: /q), does the windows setup say something about you not having smartdrive? cos if you have it loaded it means windows takes like 30mins to install rather than 4hours.. hmmm

seems a right bastard this computer of yours

mark

[mr_anderson187]

yes im beginin to h8 it lol
yeah it says i dont have it
but as i dont have an osi cant download it

were would one get smart drive? can it be fitted on a floppy
plz help

[streetster]

smartdrv... its on the windows 98 cd. i'll see if i can find it and upload it for you, it might not work, but we'll see, give me a few mins


edit:

http://www.streetster.co.uk/smartdrv.exe 45k there we go

[mr_anderson187]

ok thx, but the problem, i need to install it on my machine, so itll have to fit on a disk, and wil have to be able to be ran from ms dos, can this be done

[mr_anderson187]

just thought, idd keep you guys posted, its installing the files as we speak, at 63%, im having to skip the odd file, but i think it should install ok, what a harrowing tale this has been so far, i duno how long i have to go tho, till its finished lol

[mr_anderson187]

I KNEW IT WASNT OVER

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

after the dos part of the installlation is complete i go into the next part, it says the file ftdisk.sys is corrupted

and then exits installation

please please please does anybody know what to do next?

[Rod911]

The A7V8X-X does not allow vDIMM manipulation. Neither does it support 200FSB, BUT you can run the memory at 200Mhz and the CPU at 166FSB, but that kills performance. Also, the PCI/AGP bus cannot be locked on this board and could be the cause of your hard drive corruption. If you wanted to overclock with this board, you should have stuck with a 166FSB and just increase the multiplier and, if need be, increase vCore (voltage of CPU) as this mb has this feature.

Now, as for your installation problems, is everything back at stock speeds (ie. FSB back at 133 and with your usual 11 multiplier)? If not, go back to stock. If it is already at stock, I have no idea why you're having such bad luck in reinstalling Windows. Unless of course your overclock fubarred your hd so much, that it got itself some bad sectors...highly unlikely, but possible.

[mr_anderson187]

thanks for all that advice, i think the hard drive is ok, cos i can scandisk on ot and chkdsk onit, thru the command line interface, and it turned out ok, so im reformatiing, and my m8 is burning me a new xppr cd, cos this 1 has one or 2 scratches, but if i get it up ana running, ill take your advice mate, ill keep u posted as to what happpens with the new installation

[mr_anderson187]

ok, so due to my infinte compuuter knowledge (total lie) i got it to work, and now ive installed windows, got rid of the viruses, etc etc, and beign a total retard, i wana try to overclock again (the thing that i broke my pc doing, last time)

thers been a lot of talk of what todo while my pc was down,

so ill say all the specs, and what im tryn to acheive, and hope sum1 can point me in the right direction

amd athlon xp1700+
asus a7v8x-x mobo
maxtor 40gb hard drive
256mb ddr pc2700 ram
etc etc

i think sum said up ther i could get it up to 2.4ghz is this really possible?

can sum1 provide me with a retards guide to overclocking, lol

with safety precautions, cos i could do without another xollosal crash before my courswork is finished.

thank you in advance

richard evans