Overclocking a 608030

[Gorkesky]

Hi,

I recenlty aquired a Powerbook 180c. I have been told that its CPU can be overclocked and is common to be found running at anywhere between 37-40mhz.

The stats of the laptop are:

-33mhz
-12mb RAM
-80mb Hardrive
-MacOS 7.6.1

How is it possible to overclock this machine?

[tweakman278]

woow, how in the world are you running mac os 8.1 on 12 megs of ram? on my 5500 mac os 8.1 takes up 15 megs of ram? :) I honestly dont know how you overclock a macintosh...i've heard there are jumpers on imacs but not a clue with macintosh.

[Tycho]

the older macs used a fixed clock chip to set the speed of the cpu so in order to up the speed you will need to buy a new clockchip and solder it in place of the old one.

look here http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/mhz.html

that guy dosen't mention your 180 but you will get the idea of what you need to do from the other systems.

[Gorkesky]

Does anyone own a Apple# M5545LL/C battery.

This is a Powerbook 180c NiCad battery. I am looking for someone who could give me (for free, Ill pay for shipping) a fully working battery.

I live in Australia.

[tweakman278]

I might be able to get one from the school I volunteer at, they have loads of leftover random peices from dead macs i gut. I'll take a look when i go over there next.

[Gorkesky]

That would be great.

Even if it only holds enough charge for 30minutes it would be great.