PeepingTom

Hey

I got myself a new computer a few months ago. I built it myself, and folowing components are inside the case (maybe you guys even remember, cause i alway seem to have some trouble with this machine, damn it!) :

Mainboard: Gigabyte x38-ds4 Rev.1 - Award BIOS F1
CPU: Intel q6600 Go steping
RAM: 4x Apacer DDR2 1GB, PC-6400, Major,240Pin,800MHz,CL5
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 700 Watt
GPU: 8800GTS 512 oc (but only little oc...)
There are 3 Harddisks and one dvd rom. CPU gets cooled by a zalman 7000-cu
No PCI Cards atached (except PCI-E)

Ok, so far. The first thing i was doing, when the machine was put together, was, overclocking the cpu (you remember? ;)). I easely brought it up to 3.0ghz with a vcore of 1.18something and temps of 33c° in idle. And i could have even gone lower with the v core. Windows running stable @ a vcore of 1.175.
For a while everything went well, and the machine was running witheout problems and always stable.
One day i decided to change the cooler of the grafics. I took out the card and put another zalman on it (vf-900-cu). The difference now was, that the cooler was not controlled by the gpu directly anymore, but was pluged in into "sys-fanII" plug on the mainboard. Speedfan is controlling all my coolers. (cpu cooler on "cpu-fan" plug and gpu cooler on "sys-fanII" plug). Ok, all running well...but the computer had trouble booting up...
Again and again it stuck, booted twice (as if it had a lack of power), gave no signal to the monitor... So i went to BIOS to check stuff. There: It changed the Cpu Host Clock Control to disabled (after one of these double boot ups). The cpu was running on 266x9 again (2.4ghz). But that was the only thing it changed. The Memory multiplier was still on the value i set...wich means that the memory was running +200mhz on a stock cpu speed with no voltage raised. No wonder the computer wasnt running anymore... And it kept resetting whenever i set the fsb clock back to 333. I raised the vcore to 1.200...but it kept resetting... I feel a bit like this apears since i changed the gpu cooler...

Now i know what the problem is, but i dont have the solution so far.

Gigabyte boards habe a function that resets overclocked values, if the system isnt 100% stable. So probably it doesnt have enough power to boot sometimes. It seems, i have to change more values...and i wonder wich values i should change first... Im not that experienced in overclocking and i dont want to hurt the system with wrong settings. What i did so far is, setting the pci-e freq to 100 and give +0.10v on the pci bus... All running on a vcore of 1.1884v with a vdroop of ~0.02v

EIST disabled
Thermal Monitor disabled
C1 enabled

My thoughts and ideas about this are:

-The zalman gpu cooler takes power from the mainboard and therefore the board needs more voltege. (but what values would i need to change to get it runnung right?)

-The other thing is, that (im not 100% shure about that) i think i dont hear the coolers spin up full rotation on start up...but bevore i changed the gpu cooler, they (at least the cpu cooler) did. Maybe this is not important, but i might have recognized it...



...just saw, that quite some people are having the same problem, but i couldnt find a solution... Can anyone give me some kind of "manual" maybe? Wich voltages to raise, so the sys becomes stable...

Thanks for your help!