Overclocking xp 2100

Callan

Tried to overclock my xp 2100 today. I increased the cpu clock to 150 from 133. When the comp rebooted, after a few seconds the screen went black (i did see that the processor was clocked near 2000mhz) and the stand by light went on. I tried rebooting a few times to no avail eventually I reset the cmos. It seems to be workin fine now. So what if anything did I do wrong, is this a common problem when trying to overclock.

I have a
gigabtye ga 7dxr+
512 ddr ram
ge force 4 ti4200

TinCool

Either your RAM or CPU fan is the bottleneck. My XP1800 overclocks to a XP2000 no probs. Although, see no point in o/clocking it yet as nothing I use currently need anything more than an XP1800.

deckie27

Did you jump straight from 133 to 150? Not good as you found out
The rule to overclocking is to move in little steps
A couple of mhz at a time ?
eg 134, 136, 138 ..........

Make sure the system can Load windows also very advisable to stresss test each step


Prime 95
Is a good too for this
You also have to keeps tabs on cpu temperature you driving the chip faster than is was designed for heat will increase

Cake Fiend

You can't just jump into overclocking, read up on it a bit first. You could destroy your CPU and even motherboard by messing about too much. There are hundreds of useful overclocking guides online, check out www.thetechzone.com and www.tweak3d.net for starters, after that google is your friend.

elexes

as decky said u moved to quick to soon
put it at 140 and see what happens then . which version of the 2100 did you get ?

PPC

Check http://eu.webmatrixhosting.net/Ocdb/ aswell
I got 150Mhz outta the fsb on my one but no higher

unkel

which version of the 2100 did you get ?

Important: if it's the palomino (most likely) then be careful overclocking cause it's the cpu in the xp family that gets hottest!

Callan

Thanks for the advice.

Yeah it is a palomino.

BabyEater

I hit the same wall me motherboard wouldn't go past 150 so me 2100XP was stuck at 2GHz got me new motherboard so i will be setting it up tomorrow to see what me 2100 can do.