My Orbiter crashed when I'm overclocking

[NassJamesGoodLooking]

I'm overclocking to speed up my video card.

I used the software RivaTuner v2.09.

But, I tweaked to the highest recommended clock to speed up at the maximum. If I reached the higher than the recommended clock, it will be crashed.

But, I used Power User, I change the ForceDriverVersion in RivaTuner/System directory, I changed from blank to 6177 (driver version is 61.77 in my video card).

Computer specs:
AMD Sempron Processor 2800+
1GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Windows XP SP2

P.S.: I cannot upgrade those one of the drivers unless I have not enough money to purchase the higher version of those one of the drivers.

 

[pete.dakota]

Does the system crash? Or just orbiter? Save for the latter, it could be a power issue. What PSU do you have?

Also; a software company charging for updated drivers? :S

 

[NassJamesGoodLooking]

Does the system crash? Or just orbiter? Save for the latter, it could be a power issue. What PSU do you have?

Also; a software company charging for updated drivers? :S

My system is just ok, but my Orbiter crashed my video performance while I'm emulating.

 

[pete.dakota]

Check your orbiter log after the crash. Post the last few lines here and someone (probably not me ) should be able to tell you what's happening.

 

[Urwumpe]

Also; a software company charging for updated drivers? :S

would be a first, especially since you can get the drivers for ancient Geforce 2MX cards for free - they are included in the ForceWare 9 driver set by Nvidea.

But AFAIR, 225 MHz is the typical peak you can get by overclocking a Geforce 2MX400 (200 Mhz with double data rate), but ICs with that quality are rare in the already overclocked 400 series (original CPU clock was 180 Mhz). Overclocking a CPU/GPU which is already at the limits with it's quality (no margin left in the timing) results in the CPU/GPU failing to respond and in the worst case, even permanent damage.

 

[TSPenguin]

I highly recommend testing OCed GPUs with ATItool. Works on nVidia as well.

I will move this thread to the offtopic section, as crashes on overclocked systems have nothing to do with orbiter itself.

 

[NassJamesGoodLooking]

I'm CRASHED with that ATITool. I'm failed with that.

 

[Woo482]

get a new grafics card you can get a ati 4870 quite cheep and thats better than what you have