overclock intel 440bx ?

[howard]

i have a pentium II 400 on a intel 440bx board
as far as i can tell.......there is no adjustable cpu speed settings in bios
i have switched jumper to enter 'configure' mode and the only additional maintenance features that show up is the password setting [not usefull]
i have tried softfsb but the 440bx does not appear in list and i am not sure what 'clock generator' setting to use or how to find it or if it will even make softfsb work for my motherboard
is this board speed accessible at all?
this is on a gateway factory pc......
does this fact make a difference?
any help is appreciated!
thanks!

 

[Tim-]

Gateway, Dell, HP, Compaq- all the major players do everything they can to prevent overclocking. They don't want people buying the less expensive models. Typically they use custom bios chips, and remove any hardware jumpers that will allow user selection. Or they use Intel brand MBs that were designed without them in the first place.

Occasionally you can identify the clock chip and use SoftFSB, but I have seen bios' that would lock the machine up as soon as you attempted to change it.

If you have any luck be sure to let the forum know!

 

[Slake]

I used SOFTFSB to oc my PII-350 to 398Mhz. Runs stable and cool. My system is a HP pavilion I inherited from my in laws.Has an Asus P2B98-XV with HP custom BIOS which will not flash anything but an HP BIOS. If you can identify the maker you could buy a new BIOS chip from them. You may still have problems though if Gateway made other mods to the Mobo. You can probably look on your motherboard and find the name of the manufacturer. Look between the PCI slots, thats where I found the Manufacturers name on mine. Then run SOFTFSB and select a board from that manuf. click "Get FSB" then use the slider to increase FSB. I increased it til it locked up the computer then rebooted and selected the next highest setting.
Take my advice with a box of salt as I have little experience OC'ing.

Good Luck!

Ooooh-oooh that SMELL....

 

[user27]

Holy threrad resurection batman!

So, I'm looking to oc my old P3 box so it's a little less painful to run xp on.

It's a 500Mhz P3 so I know the chip should be able to do close on 50% faster.

I recently upgraded to 300 and something megs of ram which is just enough fopr the os plus a few apps.

It was once a PB box so the bios has hardly any options; no hit of fsb or multi anywhere.

I tried SoftFSB17f and input my W164G timing chip but it locked up on me; I guess that's PB's doing so how can I get around it?

Thanks, A

 

[bgd73]

you may find a 66mhz setting and a 100mhz setting, for ram only, or for both cpu and memory.
there was only very few that overclocked, and they were so sensitive, the best of the best stopped young. If it is no settings to find, just install 100mhz ram and know thats all one can do...some got the ata66 drives, after early 1999, late 98, latest revisions...and that needed tinkering via the hdd to know sometimes. western digital made at least one that did both ata33 and 66. that by far is the biggest bottleneck, my own 440 didn't even want that.
I had a compaq with a 12x13 inch board they didn't call eatx. kontiki was its name.