confused and stuck with a compaq

[Loopin]

Hey everyone,

I have a compaq presario 5010 and I really want to overclock this beast. Now, I know that these machines are pretty much "whatever comes out of the box is what you get", but I have been poking around and I have done a fair bit with my box. But it is still a 266 and I wanted to get it up to around 300 or 333. I've examined the motherboard thouroghly and the board seems to show that I can do it. But when I change the jumpers to the desired frequency I get nothing, it stays at 266. I'm kind of confused and wanted to know what the problem is. I have overclocked other machines before, and with fair success... but never a compaq.

Anyway, any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely....
Loopin.

[Allan Nielsen]

What EXACTLY are you doing with the jumpers? FSB changing?

You said it yourself, big corporate computers don't overclock well... so don't get your hopes up! :eh?:

[Arkaine23]

Are you using a utility of some kind to determine the FSB or are you reading it from POST? My mobo doesn't reflect any FSB change in the POST, only in benchmarks.

[batboy]

I suspect the jumpers that you're changing are multipliers and not FSB. If so, then that will not work because the multipliers are locked on all Intel CPUs since the very early P-IIs.

[Loopin]

Originally posted by Allan Nielsen
What EXACTLY are you doing with the jumpers? FSB changing?

You said it yourself, big corporate computers don't overclock well... so don't get your hopes up! :eh?:

Yah, it's not fsb, it's the multipliers. And I didn't think that my p2 could be overclocked, I just thought there might have been a chance that it could. but hey, obviously the mobo supports it, so now it's my mission to find a way to unlock it and then share the knowledge with the world. Wouldn't intell hate me t hen! BWA HA HA HA HA! Anyway, thanks a lot.

you guys sure reply fast here.

Loopin