Athlon overclocking with XP. Argg!!

[iamtrout]

I used to be able to overclock my Athlon 1.33 to 1.518 on WIN98SE stably, but when I upgraded to XP, I could only overclock it to 1.433.

If I try for 1.518, XP doesn't load and gives me an error screen and shuts off the computer. If I try to do something a little higher than 1.433, XP loads, but after a few minutes of running programs XP gives me the same error screen.

It seems that my processor makes tiny little computation errors (which don't really affect anything) when overclocked to a speed higher than 1.433, and XP catches them all and treats them like deadly threats to system stability, when WIN98SE didn't seem to care about the errors.

I want to take full advantage of my processor. What can I do? Please help. If you're an overclocker you know how I feel.

I feel like I've accomplished something. I've actually managed to crash XP somewhere around 15 times since I got it a month ago. But it's still better than 98.

 

[Adul]

hehehe.

 

[MoFunk]

You may want to look around in CPU/processors and Overclocking to see if anyone there has seen this issue. I have my 1.4 @1.53 with a dual boot 98se/XP machine with no issues.

 

[Bovinicus]

I don't think you should worry about it, seeing as how very few applications actually take advantage of that much CPU power anyway. 100MHz isn't going to make a noticeable difference really. I have come to the conclusion that overclocking really isn't worth it unless you can get a really high percentage gain in MHz, like 1GHz to 1.5GHz or something of the sort.

 

[sandorski]

Someone else(if I recall correctly) had the exact same problem. The solution was to overclock the cpu, then install WinXP. The conclusion was that XP thinks you have changed the hardware and in it's infinite wisdom decided not to boot!

 

[Thor_Sevan]

The conclusion was that XP thinks you have changed the hardware and in it's infinite wisdom decided not to boot
in it's infinite wisdom
Hahahaha....... thats funny..... Yeah.... microsoft.... sometimes I wonder what the hell they do all day long...
The software engineers sit together and plan this kind of stuff to p** people ! hehe

 

[GoldenTiger]

All of those "little errors" were also slowing down your computer before, too. Use prime95 and test to see if your OC is ACTUALLY good. Chances are, it wasn't in Win98 and was actually slowing down your performance.

 

[Executor]

You need more fans matey!

 

[Zugzwang152]

hahaha, yes, more fans ALWAYS solve the problem!