Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.overclock
Titolo: 300A - 450 Double whammy

About a month ago I came to the conclusion that any idiot could
overclock a Celeron 300A.  This was the result of reading tons of
articles & how to's.  The going success rate to 450 seemed to be
somewhere around 90%, so I figured why not.  I didn't have the balls to
just chance it though, so I bought a guaranteed cooling solution from
step-thermodynamics.com
 - if it doesn't run stable @ 450, they'll
replace it.
The the system looks like this:
Celeron 300A (SL2WM Malaysia)
Abit BX6 R2.0
128M PC 133 SDRAM
ATI RAGE FURY 32M AGP
Diamond Monster MX300
It didn't run stable at 450.  It'd boot into windows, but after about 10
seconds - lock up.  I went through 4 or 5 overclocking guides (tom's
hardware, sharkyextreme, bxboards, 
overclockers.com
 etc.) and soft
menued this thing to death.  No dice.  I was able to run at 75MHz and
83MHz stable, but 100 was elusive.  So, since I was a wuss to begin
with, I cashed in on the guarantee and got another C 300A (also a SL2WM
Malaysia) from step-thermodynamics, who imho, are really cool guys who
don't seem to get enough press from the overclocking community.
Again, no luck at 450.  So now I'm left to believe that I'm simply and
idiot in over his head - especially in light of the numerous successful
reports of 450 to 504 listed at bxboards for SL2WM's.  I've only found a
couple reports of sub-450 attempts, let alone back-to-back failures.
I've put about 40 hrs into trying to locate the problem, and figured I
might as well humbly approach the enlighted masses in the hopes that
someone will be able to suggest something I haven't tried.
Any input would be welcome - I'm so sick of re-reading the same guides
over and over.

Excuse me for my bad English.
For me was the same. I did't spend so much time in testing a Costarica which
could run at 450 but the interesting thing is the the dealer guarenteed me
the the processor was tested at 450. I tray in very manner to run it at this
frequency but the ultimate solution is to buy a Celeron 400 (with the
problem that you could not use bus at 100).
Bye Bye.

Hiya
My tekram motherboard does not support user defined cpu voltage, so I had to
tape a few pins before I got my 300A going at 450Mhz.  Basically I had to
run the voltage at 2.4V before anything started happening.
So I'd check that you are running at above 2.2, but not above 2.4V.
If that doesn't work, then try running in the processor at a slower speed,
and go back to it a week later and try again.  I see that you have only
tried for 40 hours so far.  Keep goin'!!!
ND
Try running in the processor.
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seconds - lock up. 
HAVE IT REPLACED. Thats why you paid too much in the first place!
Running $69.45 retail 300A@450 with PC66 RAM in BH6.
Jeff
http://geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/1045/Celeron.html
 

 couple reports of sub-450 attempts, let alone back-to-back failures.
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Hemm.. seems stupid but... did you set agpclock/busclock = 2/3?
also in abit ther's an option in bios... something like "speed error
hold" or whatever... that is to be put on disable. Hope that there is
some sort of thermoconductive compound between the celery and the
heatsink... and finally...  why did you crossposted this message to
it.comp.hardware.overclock? it.* is a hierachy of NG's in italian
language (it stands for italian... as fr.* for french...) so to be
strictly IT (In Topic ;-) you should post in italian...
Crosspost IS always BAD but in this occasion is really wrong: all the
nice people in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking that post a reply to
this message without changing the header will have their articles
posted in it.comp.hardware.overclock where they will not be
appreciated so much....:-(((
So I formally invite all the overclock people out there to avoid
crossposting to it.comp.hardware.overclock and to avoid english
postings here unless it is a REAL necessity.... (maybe someone that
wants a P!!!500@700....)
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