Need help with Athlon XP and Epox 8kt3

[Dzero]

OK, I just got a new new Athlon XP 1700+ for X-mas and put it on an Epox 8kt3 mobo I had. Epox shows that it\'s bigger brother, the 8kt3+, whose only difference is RAID, has support for the chip, and it looks like they never tested the 8kt3. Anyway, the system will not run on a 133 bus. The comp will lock up at random places, and I can never get to windows. At 130 and 127, windows starts, but is unstable, and I lose USB. The system runs at 124, but at this setting the memory runs at 124, PCI at 31, and the CPU is only running at 1364. When I put the jumper on the board to a 100mhz bus, I can get basically any speed upto the limits of the componts (right now I am at 106 bus, with 142 memory, and 36 PCI, and CPU at 1166.) What should I do? I feel pissed off cause I paid 170 bucks for this and I can\'t get to it\'s full potential.

A little more. I have never had success flashing the BIOS on this board. When I do, I can\'t get the system to boot until I clear the CMOS. And the voltage is not right. When I set the voltage to 1.75, it comes out at 1.82. Set it to 1.7, I get 1.76. And set it at 1.65, I get 1.71. I thought this might help, and it is something else that is bugging me.

OK, one more thing What should I run it at right now, a 1364 CPU with slow memory and PCI bus, or at 1166 with a fast memory and PCI bus. I think the later is better, but what do you think.

[Anonymous]

humm.. i got the epox 8kta3+ raid version, and im running it on a 1 gig axia chip.. she runs fine up to 150 fsb (300)

-the voiltage reading i wouldnt worry about mate... i doubt its that accurate, adn i found every time i flashed my bios, the tempreture went up...  just install a tempreture monitor like the VHM to make sure your processor aint running too hot.

- ive found the system northbridge fan to also be [censored]e. mine is about 6 months old and kept stopping, which caused my lockups. ive replaced it and havent crashed since.

-make sure your giving ti plenty of voltage to the core and make sure your coolinmg can handle it

get a good coolerr (i use the silent flower cooler from www.queitpc.com  - and recommend that, unless you like noise.....)

also, it could be any one of your components causing the problem, so go back to basics and remove EVERYTHING

get it running, and monitoring and increase stuff slowly until it fails http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

- you might want to update the bios aswell, when i updated mine, i gainned extra features to control the ram, like cas2/3 selection etc, as well as extra performance, and clock settings http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />)

- are you sure its not a windows problem ? - you might want to check for patches... i run win2k which is fine, but i know that one windows OS had a problem with timing on processors running over 1.3ghz.. i think it was win98 (-PAH) so maybe its that...

- as for having startup trouble until the cmos is reset, i had that aswell, but now running the latest bios, everything is cool and the gong http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

he he

- good luck mate, this epox board r0cks in my opinion... yeah, it can be a pain to get going, but thats because of all its great features for overclocking... persistance my friend... and surfing... that should sort it http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />)

laters

k!ngskin

[Trippy]

i have
Athlone Tbird 1.4 266
K7S5A has the SIS735 from ECS
512 DDR ram (infineon)
Geforce3 (3DPower)
Audigy gamer-x
350 watt (enhance)
win XP HOME

same [censored], runnig at 100 intead of 133 to avoid faster lock up.  i should let u know there is IRQ conflict [censored].
athlone sux.  intel next time.