Intel Pentium M crashes after overclocking - PLEASE HELP

[techa]

Hello all, New to the forum, thanks for reading :)

Please help, I've tried to overclock my system. It's a satellite A55-s326 laptop, and the specs are below:

Pentium M 725 - 1600MHz; (Centrino system)
512MB DDR SDRAM 333MHz;
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME 64MB;
2 GB DDR RAM, PC2700
i855 board

I've used ClockGen, and here are my initial specs:
CPU: 598.65
FSB:99.76
RAM: 166.27

I ran ClockGen with a PLL selected of ICS 952618, and while using prime95 at it's torture test managed to get my overclock to be the following without test failure:

CPU: 680.56
FSB: 113.43
RAM: 189.04

So after gaining these values and saving them for startup on my laptop, I find that after this most of my programs CRASH on me! I ran Sims 2 and it let me know it crashed and would not continue, and I ran Maya 6 and it crashed on me as well.

What am I doing wrong? Am I leaving something out? Should I do another step to prevent the crashing? Or do I have to open up my laptop to do the manual overclocking techniques? I've seen articles on opening it up and doing the copper wire mod, but I was hoping that ClockGen would show a more safer tweak.

PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks :)

-Techa

[ozzlo]

Hi Welcome to the forums.


1. How long did you torture test?
2. Did you do run the blend test to test the ram also?
3. are you sure you have the correct pll?


Remember that when you overclock the FSB, You are overclocking the whole system not just the CPU. It only takes 1 component that doesn't like being overclocked to hold the whole system back. Usually the culprit is the Pci/AGP clocks because they don't have frequency locks for them on laptops. I am not sure what the EXACT problem is but maybe you can back the clocks off a little bit and see if that get's you stable. Also if you just happen to have another similar laptop on hand we can do some hardware troubleshooting.

Also correct me if I am mistaken but I do beleive that that laptop is not capable of running a 533mhz FSB... You need to have a laptop capable of a 533mhz fsb (AND a 400mhz processor) to be able to do the hardware mod...