darkmajig: hey... my friend and i tried overclocking his gateway 233 system. we did almost the same thing: set the jumper so that we can enter the maintenance mode of the bios, changed the speed to 300, reset the jumpers and then tried booting. when we powered the system on, nothing happened: the computer won't even post. he has quite an old phoenix bios and so there is no such thing as softfsb, and so the only thing we could change is that. we tried booting at 266 in vain. does that mean my friend is stuck at 233? thanx!