Asus overclock help

[imported_Deez]

My system:
Asus P4v8x-x bios 1009.006
P4 2.26 Northwood 533FSB 512K
PQI Turbo PC3200 2x256MB sticks with heatspreaders
ATI 9600 pro 256MB

I have been trying to overclock and I have had some problems, I can't seem to get much higher than 10%. I had previously a p4 1.7 and was told it was bad for overclocking so I got a p4 2.26 which is supposedly better. I am still having the same problem. I cannot get passed a fsb of 148 or it will not boot windows. Before I had cheap Ultra at PC 2700 and when I backed it down to 266 I was able to get it to post in and boot into windows at 10%. So I replaced it with the PQI and that did not help either. I have no pci/agp lock or a ram divider. Hopefully this is not the problem. I have tried adding voltage to both ddr and cpu and it di not help. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Joepublic2]

The chipset/mobo is only validated to run at a 133Mhz FSB. You have ram dividers; all modern platforms have them. Do you mean you can't change them? The lack of AGP/PCI locks definitely excaberates the problem. AGP and PCI buses and cards (and everything that derives it's clockspeed from the PCI clock, which includes the IDE controller in your chipset and USB(?) among other things) are very intolerant of being run out of spec. We know that your chipset supports a FSB/PCI divider of 4 (133/33) and 3 (100/33). So, you might try a FSB of 166Mhz on the hopes that your board supports a PCI divider of 5 (166/33). Otherwise, you're out of luck unless you get a new board or a new platform.

 

[imported_Deez]

I tried going to a FSB of 166 and it will not boot. Many places advertize that this boeard supports a FSB 800 "overclocked". So how would this work if got a 800FSB chip. Should I try an 200FSB in bios. I don't think it would boot, but I haven't tried it. Is there anything in between that might work. Or is there a program that locks the PCI and AGP.