CPU under-clocked??

Hello,

I just recently found the bill for dell Dimension 2400 and i was reading the the paper that came with it explaining everything that came with it. and when i was reading it it said i had 2.8 GHz CPU ...but on the computer it says i have 2.6 Ghz CPU. So, I called them and they said during the time that i bought my computer they ran out of 2.6 GHz CPUs and put in an under-clocked 2.8Ghz processor.

Is there a way to bring my CPU back up to 2.8 that it should be?

it's an Intel Celeron.

I tried in the BIOS but when i press the button or move my arrow keys nothing happens it wont go down or up..or is that not the place to do it at?

And how dangerous is it to bring the computers CPU back up 2.8 after its been 2.6 for so long?

 

Umm, Is nobody responding because i Don't have a "Super cool" Intel-Duo 6 Million GHz processor?confused

I understand I don't have a "gaming machine", but that shouldn't stop you from at least responding. (it's been 5 days and not one response, hell i would take "Celeron's suk gettin' da Pentium 4 !!!!11111One111111One!"


And....yes, someone just recently said that me in a another forum.I just copied and pasted it here.

 

This is a volunteer forum, and the members here post on their own time. If your post gets answers, then great, free tech support. If not, it just means no one knew the answer or the right person hasn't seen it yet.

AFAIK, Since your computer is a Dell, the BIOS will be locked so there is no way you can access the right options to overclock the processor. A 200mhz bump in speed wouldn't give you that much a performance increase anyway. I think you're stuck with what you have, unless someone else can provide any additional input.

 

2.6 vs 2.8GHz you wouldnt notice the differance
The first thing I'd do is remove the CPU HS a see exactly what CPU you have, there will be identifing #'s on the Chip

If your Bios settings are locked the only other possibility is adjusting via software, IMO if you cant set via BIOS I wouldnt, but thats me

 

there may be a pin-mod you could possibly do, but you'd need to search around some of the more heavy-overclocking style forums to find out.