oc celeron with WinY2K

[mywong23]

While running my trusty Celeron 300a @450 MHz on Win2k, my computer randomly gets Stop errors; when installing a program. But returning to original 300 MHz config, the computer works with no stop errors. Guess Win2k is very tempermental with hardware setups?

What gives?

 

[Doh!]

From my experience, win2k appears to be a little more sensitive to an overclocked cpu. You can try better cooling & make sure all your hardware is compatible with win2k (updated win2k drivers).

 

[kmmatney]

I've had great luck with my Celeron 533 oc'ed to 800 MHz. My motherboard is fairly new, however (Soyo 7VCA). The good thing about Win 2K is that it has a cpu idler built-in.

 

[dandan]

i also had issues with my celeron 300a when overclocked once i went to win2k.
it was 99% stable at 504mhz which was good enough for me at the time.
if i wanted to play quake2 at the time i had to use softfsb to drop the speed down to 450mhz.

with win98 i was able to get 100% stable above 504mhz.

so i have seen that win2k is a litle more demanding on hardware.

dan

 

[MGMorden]

Yeah. Basically if the computer crashes in one program or OS at on overclocked speed but doesn't at the default, then the chip isn't truly stable at the speed/voltage. You might want to try increasing voltage or dropping the bus just a little.