Overclocking to what I have, please Advise

[NOOB]

A good while ago I bought an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ for my PC and to run it on I bought a DFI LANParty KT400A to run it on. I bought them on tigerdirect.com and at the time of purchase it listed the mobo as capable up to that processor. No sooner do I get it than I discover that my mobo cant handle the processor and runs it as an AMD Athlon 2500+. I was not pleased. I have tried setting it up in BIOS to run right but it wont so I'm wondering if its possible for me to "Overclock" the cpu to its actual speeds. Could I do this? And if so How? I've never tried overclocking before so any help would be much appreciated.

[silenze]

Yeah, that cpu should work fine in that motherboard, what kind of options do you have in your BIOS as far as frontside bus? Adjusting the FSB is how you would overclock that CPU.. if it's at "200Mhz" in the bios and posting as a 2500+, perhaps you should look for a BIOS update for the motherboard.

It may just be set to 166Mhz.. if so you're running 11 x 166, 1,826Mhz, roughly the spec of a 2500+... is there a 200Mhz FSB option?

[Beemer]

Yep, I would definately check the manufacturers site for a bios update. There should also be instructions on how to flash the new bios.

[NOOB]

I've flashed the bios so now its up to date. still no go. Ok on the motherboard is a switch to set the cpu fsb if i set it to 200mhz(400fsb) my computer will turn on but not boot up so right now its set at the 166 option. In bios I set it up for a 200mhz and it registers the processor so i though woo hoo but somehow its hosed up the system and now i get a random error (blue screen) whenever windows tries to load. :( so i dunno maybe my mobo switch is hosed in which case could i run the cpu at 166 and still get it up to speed?

[NOOB]

I realize I'd be sacrifising some performance since I would "have" a smaller fsb but i think its roughly 13 X 166 for near the same processor speed. would this work or am i way off?

[silenze]

That's the issue, your multiplier is locked, you can only make changes to the FSB speed. :???:

[NOOB]

my bios offers different multipliers its set at default but it has other options

[NOOB]

it has a 'cpu multiplier setting' option that has default and X 8 to X 17

[XPTB]

you can set the multiplier to whatever you want but it won't work. the actual chip is locked, so no multiplier can be changed.