"Bill" wrote in message
om...
I recently purchased the following setup:

-Athlon XP 2500+ Barton retail with stock heatsink/fan
-Kingmax 512 MB PC2700 DDR
-Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM, 8MB cache, ATA-133
-AsRock K7VM4 MB, VIA KM400 chipset with onboard PCI bus S3 Uni-chrome
video chip sharing 64MB system memory
-Winfast XP2000+ Deluxe TV turner card
-Generic 400 Watts PSU/Case

Using the onboard video. I've overclock the 2500+ to 380 FSB (from
1.83G to 2.09G) with default 11x multipler and WinXP runs perfectly
24x7 and watch TV without any problem excpet when I do anything video
intensive like following tasks:

-While recording TV program with my TV turner card, WinXP would freeze
or reboot maybe 5 to 10 minuties into recording. CPU usage stay around
85-90% during recording and I've plenty of hard disk space and free
physical memory left.
When I check the BIOS, I see that the CPU temp reached about 50C (idle
temp is about 45C). Even without overclocking, during recording the
CPU usage would be constantly at 95-100% and sometimes when I just
open explorer to browse for files, the video would freeze. I've
looking at the CPU temp everytime it freeze and it's always 50C.
BTW I'm recording at 640x480 capture resolution and 30 frame/sec using
Divx codec.

-When I play games like Need for speed 5, simcity 3000, or quake 2 it
always freezes on me and sometimes they won't start.

I've also tried to raise CPU clock to 194, it won't even boot. The
best I can do is 192 CPU clock. And when I use default 166 CPU clock
and try 11.5x multipler, that won't boot either. So I guess my Barton
2500+ is probably still lock, unlike many whose CPU come unlocked
already. But I don't worry about that, I'm happy being able to
overclock to 190 CPU clock as long as I can resolve the unstability
while recording and occassionly game play.

Is the MSI GF4 MX4400 card able to handle TV capture at
Any comment or suggestion appricated,
Thanks
Bill

I hope you understand you are putting your Kingmax PC2700 at great risk by
running at 192mhz - you may have already done the damage and never get
stability even at default clock. I am not usually a scaremongerer unless I
really believe you could damage your memory but I have seen it and done it
myself by overclocking some TWINMOS PC2700 to 185fsb - which killed it. Your
Kingmax maybe more able to take this mis-use but I wouldn`t want to risk it
anymore unless you have a good return policy and don`t mind a 1 - 2 week
turnaround + stability problems before you realise you memory is knackered.