OC stumped... suggestions?

[yippiekiyeh]

I had my AMD 1.2g/266 oc'd to 1.33g nice and stable by just changing the multiplier to 10. It was running just fine. At the time the placement of the HD's and the floppy weren't in the right place, so I decided to fix that problem. Then I added an extra exhaust fan with the hopes of pushing the cpu to 1.5g.

After futzing with the HD's and Floppy, I didn't know they they could be soo tempermental, and getting everything working again. I reset the multiplier in the course of getting everything working again. I would use Sandra to check the speed and multiplier settings, and when I set it to 10x multipler it either doesn't boot up or it shows it at stock 1.2g speed. I can even set it to x9.5 mulitpler and it will post a 1.27g score on Sandra. Is just that I am now I am unable to post that 1.3g speed anymore. I just need some suggestions I think I might be missing a bios/cmos setting but I don't know what that could be it.

I would appreciate any helpful suggestions.

My setup at it is now:

AMD 1.2g oc'd to 1.27g @ 9.5 multiplier
FIC AD-11 DDR board with 512mg ram
Gefore2Ultra64 Video card
SBL gamer sound card

[Grimm]

When you have two case fans you should have one pushing air in and one pulling it out. This gets you good airflow and cools the case well. If they are both blowing out you might not be getting much extra cooling from them, even less if the hole that the new fan is trying to blow air out from was the main entry point for the cool air.
When you move things around in your case you change the dynamics of how air flows through it. You CPU might not be getting as much cooling as it used to due to the positions of cables and the drives you moved.

Good luck figuring it out.

[clutchy]

hmmm, well you can always try updating your bios it never hurts, but try what evil said and then up your core voltage by .5 to like 1.85 or higher and then try it again. make sure you check the temp because upping the vcore is the easiest way to fry your chip aside from leaving off the fan.

[\/\/|ZarD]

Bios shhhmiios

Get a new HSF or a new FAN for your HSF
Make sure you have good case circulation
is your ram good enough?
temps ok?
SiSoft Sandra isn't god, it doesn't know everything.
So even if it says something odd don't necessirely assume it's right.

Sandra still claims my bro's P4 runs at 400 degrees f.

[clutchy]

oh so the bios whore isn't suggesting bios upgrades anymore change of heart rocket?