PLEASE HELP

[figgy2967]

all I want to know is HOW to overclock. i dont understand HOW! I just aquired an old GX1 Dell for free and its not bad. 512 MG or RAM (2 256 chips) and a Pentium 3 that runs at 500 mghz. I found several jumers and they were marked: PSWD then the next is BIOS then bus 66 mghz, 266, 300, 333, 350, 400, 450, and 500. i found it at 266 and i put the jumper(one of them, the other was on PSWD and i left that one. the one that was at 266) all the way up to 500. now is there any other way that i can set it up even more? What do i do to overclock it? i dont get it. can ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!

[jurtje]

First of all, you're definitely posting in the wrong section, this should be in "Overclocking".

Your computer is a Dell you say, now being it an OEM computer, it'll probably be difficult to overclock it, because OEM always hide their overclock options in the BIOS and on their motherboards.
Because your computer is pretty old, on that board overclocking is done by moving jumpers like you already did.

You have to see (or maybe find a manual on the net) whether you can raise your FSB over 66 MHz. Apperently this motherboard won't take any faster processors than the 500 MHz, so you can't change the second jumper any further.

Not much luck for you I guess, maybe you can investigate whether there are other motehrboards available on Ebay, of other brands such as Asus or Abit.

Now, if you want to know more about overclocking, read this guide (http://forums.ocia.net/viewtopic.php?t=464), written by me. :D

[figgy2967]

ok, so now i have done much more research on this. I see that i can not raise the FSB through my BIOS because its a DELL, and i assume its gonna be the same way with my Emachines. Do is there anywhere i can get a hacked BIOS for either the crappy (but free ) GX1 or the T-2482 emachine? does anyone know how i can get a hacked bios or go into the system config and disable it myself? anyone please?

[siq]

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If you have any questions or concerns about overclocking please post it in this forum section. Thank you.


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[Trunks]

lol just had my first taste of overclocking, I tried to overclock my girlfriends moms computer. Anway its an amd 890 mhz. computer and i increased the serial bus from like 100 to 110 and it raised the mhz to 990. So i thought cool raised it another 10 and it went to 1090. I thought it was grand until the computer would turn on and immediately do nothing. I couldn't even get back into the Bios. So I panicked and started pulling jumpers out of the motherboard and replacing them to their original location in hopes of correcting my jackassity. Sure enough I reset it. So I'm a bit stupid but I was curious. There were no such multipliers that people have mentioned and i couldn't find voltages, just FSB so I altered that. The computer is a couple years old any idea (minus my naiveness) why this happened?

[Trunks]

Maybe because I did not increase the voltage?

[DaMiEn]

yeah the cpu probably wasnt stable at that speed on stock voltage. the volatge control should be in the bios somewhere if you want to try again. note it could have been other things like the ram

[fstroupe]

yeah the cpu probably wasnt stable at that speed on stock voltage. the volatge control should be in the bios somewhere if you want to try again. note it could have been other things like the ram

Or heat. But most likely the ram was holding you back.

[Trunks]

So what would ram have to do with it? Still new remember

[KryoNexus]

when you change the fsb (bus speed) for the CPU, you also change it for everything in the system. (unless you have the option to lock it to 66/33 in the bios, but this is generally on newer motherboards, and definitely won't be found in a Dell/HP/Compaq/etc. BIOS). Anyway, when you up the speed to the processor, it in turn cranks up the speed to your memory, and any expansion cards you have. usually the first thing to become unstable is your memory. You could get memory that is designed to run faster, but this may or may not be your problem, and you don't really wanna throw money at an old OEM computer.

it is very unlikely that you will find an OEM computer that will overclock very well. there simply is not enough options in the BIOS to take control of the system. To get an effective overclock, you really need to be able to make voltage adjustments, lock certain components down to stock speed, and still increase the speed of the CPU.