Windows XP seems to be preventing overclocking???

[Caveman]

Tried running up the FSB on my MoBo the other night... Temps are fine (never above 41 C), and the moBo is highly O/C able. But... Anything past 142 MHz and Win XP pops an error at boot saying that my hardware is running beyond capability and that Win XP will not boot because of this...

Hmmm.

I'm guessing that Win XP has a way to check the MoBo FSB at boot and prevent XP from loading??? Perhaps the value that the OS sees at install is stored in the registry and is checked at each bootup? Perhaps at each boot, there is a tolerance allowed to go past the "previos" setting and if that is not exceeding, one could surmise that an O/C could be "crept up on"??? Perhaps I just need to reinstall XP with a high FSB setting???


Any ideas here? Any registry fixes or anthing?

 

[CTho9305]

hmm, never heard of this. I OC just fine in XP . does yours OC fine under win98? runs prime95 stable?

 

[DN]

I doubt WinXP has any sort of "rules about OC'in" -- it shouldn't care as long as it can function (bootup process, etc).. My guess is that it can't properly read the hard drive and it therefore suspects you are OC'in.. Just lower the FSB a bit..