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Adventure Man
01-16-2008, 11:55 AM
Hi guys, I have a Biostar P4M900-M4 Socket 478 Motherboard, a pentium 4 3.4 ghz 1MB Prescott cpu and 3 gigs of Gskill DDR2-667 ram (a 2gb piece and a 1 gb piece filling in both slots on the mobo with a frequency of 333 mhz).

My problem is that when I try to overclock my cpu I get no change in speed even though I change the cpu bus speed. This cpu has a multiplier of 17 with a bus speed of 200 mhz, I tried to change the 200 to upwards of 220 and have seen no change whatsoever in the cpu speed. CPU-Z even reports that there is no change in the bus speed either, that it's still 200! I've made the bus speed change in the bios AND with biostar's windows application for overclocking "WarpSpeeder". Both with the same dismal result.

Am I doing something wrong here? Are my cpu/fsb speeds locked? My cpu idles at 32 celsius and I feel that I could get at least a 200 mhz overclock.
Any advice?
Thank you,
A.M.

odannyboy000
01-16-2008, 10:15 PM
Try updating your BIOS.

Adventure Man
01-17-2008, 09:29 AM
I have the latest bios installed.

odannyboy000
01-17-2008, 01:45 PM
Did you lock all your buses?

Adventure Man
01-17-2008, 03:05 PM
Did you lock all your buses?

how would i do that? Is that an option in the bios?

odannyboy000
01-17-2008, 04:42 PM
Yes in the BIOS under "chipset" possibly you can manually set your timings and voltages as well as lock the pci bus.

George Hallam
01-18-2008, 12:52 AM
May sound stupid but did you save the settings once you OC'ed? (usally F10)

Adventure Man
01-18-2008, 12:30 PM
yeah i saved the settings and everything is buses are locked. :confused: :(

mjc
01-18-2008, 01:22 PM
I'm going to assume that the 'Clear CMOS' jumper is in the 'Run' position (pins 1-2) and not the 'Clear' (pins 2-3)...

That you are attempting to do this at a BIOS level and not use the OS based tools that Biostar includes...

And that you've recently replaced the CMOS battery...

Adventure Man
01-18-2008, 02:54 PM
I'm going to assume that the 'Clear CMOS' jumper is in the 'Run' position (pins 1-2) and not the 'Clear' (pins 2-3)...

That you are attempting to do this at a BIOS level and not use the OS based tools that Biostar includes...

And that you've recently replaced the CMOS battery...


yeah you've assumed correctly. I didn't have to replace the cmos battery as I checked it and it's fine.

Although I did give the biostar OS based tool a try and had no luck either.