I'm relatively new to overclocking, but as I recently acquired an XP-M 2500+ I thought I'd give it a go...but I've already run into a problem 
From my understanding, what I want to do is to lower the multiplier and up the fsb...
motherboard: ASRock K7S41
cpu: XP-M 2500+ (I know the person I got it from and he tells me it's a good "clocker")
ram: 512 ddr333 and 512 ddr400
I've currently got it running fine at 155 x14, whic is an improvement, but I'd like to try for more
The computer boots up and assigns the cpu a default (recognised) multiplier of 14x, which makes overclocking it rather tricky. It occasionally POSTs at fsb=166 but windows doesn't load.
The k7s41 has multiplier control via jumpers, however I believe these jumpers control the BP_FID (which apparently only works with desktop XP chips) and what I actually need to alter is the FID for an XP-M. I can adjust the multiplier using software once windows is running but as the systems boots at 14x I cannot increase the fsb (I've not yet tried upping Vcore but I'd rather solve this multiplier thing first...)
I found a site which has url=http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.html]"pin-mod" instructions[/url] for setting the multiplier on XP chips, but before I resort to dropping tiny bits of wire into my cpu-socket I was hoping there might be other tactics I could employ? I'm not even certain the pin-mod applies to XP-M as well as XP cpus?
From my understanding, what I want to do is to lower the multiplier and up the fsb...motherboard: ASRock K7S41
cpu: XP-M 2500+ (I know the person I got it from and he tells me it's a good "clocker")
ram: 512 ddr333 and 512 ddr400
I've currently got it running fine at 155 x14, whic is an improvement, but I'd like to try for more
The computer boots up and assigns the cpu a default (recognised) multiplier of 14x, which makes overclocking it rather tricky. It occasionally POSTs at fsb=166 but windows doesn't load.The k7s41 has multiplier control via jumpers, however I believe these jumpers control the BP_FID (which apparently only works with desktop XP chips) and what I actually need to alter is the FID for an XP-M. I can adjust the multiplier using software once windows is running but as the systems boots at 14x I cannot increase the fsb (I've not yet tried upping Vcore but I'd rather solve this multiplier thing first...)
I found a site which has url=http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.html]"pin-mod" instructions[/url] for setting the multiplier on XP chips, but before I resort to dropping tiny bits of wire into my cpu-socket I was hoping there might be other tactics I could employ? I'm not even certain the pin-mod applies to XP-M as well as XP cpus?
