G31M-ES2L & E8500 OC Problem

[gr0bda]

I can't OC this CPU at all either through bios or @BIOS (under win xp.) Every time I try to OC it will even sometimes boot to windows just to freeze very early on. Am I just unlucky with the CPU or am I not doing something?
Memory 2GB Gskill PC6400 800mhz

EDIT: I'm wrong about @BIOS, there was some software that I already uninstalled and now don't remember the name that allowed for CPU overclocking under windows, anyway that software failed to oc just as BIOS did.

 

[inzone]

Useually the best way to overclock is in the bios and the thing that stands out to me is the fact that you have only 2gb of ram and I would want a little more than that. The reason it will freeze is because the overclock is too high , so what are you overclocking it to.
Which version of windows xp do you have 32bit or 64bit?

 

[gr0bda]

Xp is 32 bit, I tried to overclock to ~4Ghz for my MAME cab for best performance, (which I read was pretty standard with this processor) but I believe even a little bit of overclock would cause the said system freezing. I gave up on overclocking awhile ago, but now, I've got the computer out of the cab and connected to a monitor rather than tv so I can try to test it out again.
And most of the times I was trying to OC via BIOS, I just mentioned that I tried to used the software that came with motherboard.

Btw 2GB is more than enough for a 32 bit OS to run mostly emulators

 

[inzone]

Did you try to raise the clock by small increments or did you just jump in with 4ghz and I know that you have no wat to tell but it could be the motherboard not being able to overclock and not the cpu.