Athlon 3000 stability

[Kyorisu]

Ok my last resort after hours of research.

I recently purchased an Athlon 3000 xp barton and a Via KT6V motherboard to go with it.

Specs as follows;

Athlon 3000 xp barton
Via KT6V
Radeon 9600 pro
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
40gb Western Digital HDD
BenQ 16x DVD burner
LG 52x CDROM
256mb pc 2700 ddr
Windows XP pro with SP2
400 watt PSU. +12volt rail - 18amps, +5volt rail 40amps, +3.3 volt rail 28amps, -5volt rail .5amps, -12volt rail .5amps

FSB is set at 166 and the multiplyer is locked by the cpu at 13. Vcore is set at 1.650.

After a while of operation (I'm using it now) the system will freeze. No error messages, just a pure freeze. I've been toying around with bios settings for days now and still havn't come to a conclusion. I've looked around on the MSI forums (maker of my board/cpu) but they havn't been much help.

If your running this cpu, please tell me what you've got it running at stable.

 

[Maxi]

Try lowering your FSB to 133mhz and see if it crashes then.

 

[Kyorisu]

At 133 it doesn't crash. I want what I paid for ofcourse.

So far it's been running for a few hours with the Vcore at 1.650. I think it was set at 1.675 earlier in the day.

 

[Maxi]

Ok.. it sounds like a memory thing. I'd try it with some pc 3000 or pc3200 memory.

 

[Kyorisu]

Hmm. Okay I'll try and get some more ram.

Now I have to wait even longer. The only Ram I can get my hands on now is 512mb pc 2700. That doesn't help. It might purley be the brand. It's Kingston, I've run memtest on it with no problems.

Well it still hasn't crashed yet.

 

[Maxi]

Yeah, but I know when I OC my ram to around 167 FSB, my comp starts to crash in exactly the same way :/ and i've got pc 2700. Could you ask a friend to borrow bis pc3200 to you for a day?

 

[Kyorisu]

I'll try my fathers ram and see if that helps. I'll also try to cash in my current stick of ram and pay the extra $20-$30 to get a pc 3200 stick, 512mb if I have a little extra money lying around.