Avoiding BSOD

[xX-Felipao-Xx]

Hi guys,

I have a poor PC, this one:

- AMD Sempron 3100+ which Speedfan tells its running at 50-52º with my current OC
- MSI k8 Neo3
- Geforce FX5200
- 768 MB of RAM
- Running XP

My bios is really bad, it allows me to change the clock and multiplier, but, as soon as I change the clock a bit, it doesn't boot well and gets stucked in that phase, so I need to do a clear-cmos.

So, the alternative I'm using is ClockGen to overclock the CPU, which is 1,8Ghz stock and 2,0 right now. Its known that I can get more performance from it, but after 2,1 Ghz, I get sometimes BSODs, and if I put the clock to 2,3, it gets frozen and rare stuff, so I have to restart the PC.

What can I do? Maybe thats the top of my processor, is it?

edit: Well, I've been doing some tests, and I got the conclusion that, the BSOD are because any "security" system of the bios or something (could this be true?)

The why: Its not a temp issue, because when I put 2.35 Ghz, it automatically reseted itself (with a BSOD), and when I put it at 2.3, it restarted after a minute, but I checked in Speedfan and the temp has increased a little bit (2-3º)...

There must be a way to disable that thing which is limiting me

 

[blackpanther26]

well. There you may have to adjust your CPU voltages to get more than 300MHz clock out of it. Any ways to help you out. Check out the how to overclock the Athlon 64 section. Yes I know it is a sepron but inside it is much like the Athlon's. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/126122-29-guide-overclocking