overclocking laptop

hey guys, i was wondering how i can overclock my dell latitude. i already have ample cooling, i am taking a hint from glenn, i have a box fan i run under my laptop so it will stay cool. thanks guys.

eric

 

i found a program for it now how do i find the name of my mother board? thanks guys.

eric

 

well i thought u said u found the program to show the mother board...
and about the overclocking... overclocking a laptop is bad mojo because there is hardly any cooling and another reason... dells are HORRIBLE for overclocking... even the pcs.. so i must think theyre laptops are even worse... the only thing i could think of is trying to find the pll chip ( the chip that controls the fsb)... youd probably have to take your laptop to do that though.. the pll chip is usually arund 20 pins... then run a program called softfsb.. i dunno the site.. youll have to do a google search.. good luck.. and dont overclock her too much

cheers

 

Eric Please be very carefull what you do,,I do NOT OVERCLOCK my P4 notebook,,,just run the processor 100% 24/7...so I am just taking procautions with the heat to cool the system down to extend chip life,,,HEAT KILLS keep in mind I have a NEW laptop with adiquate cooling 2 big intake fans and copper/alunimum heat fins !!!!,,,mine is a EXTRA MEASURE to reduce heat, Glenn


Now here is the link to that software softfsb

http://www.voodoofiles.com/250

 

sorry eric the dl link is not live,,,do a google, glenn

 

thanks anyway glenn. i'll try to find it. i am trying to solve the problem with my laptop freezing up, i think if i overclock it, it will be able to run xp home, but we'll find out. anyway so how do you run your p4 at full all the time? is it you folding plus using it for normal use? i have never been able to use even 50% of the processor for more than 5 minutes. anyway sorry for the dribble.

eric

 

Eric whats your system specks ???

I disabled Hyper-Threading in BIOS to have ability to run full processor speed on one major core program,,Yes Running Stanford Folding at Home 24/7 ,,,still plenty of resorces for websurfing etc,,,,If I need a day of multitasking I enable Hyper-Thread and dedicate 50% of my processor to the folding cause,,,,The P4 2.8mhz HT has 2 logical brains,,,and have the ability to join them,,..also in preferances of your folding console you can adjust the amout of processor to dedicate so you can advance your processor settings to 100% also draw rate full..right click on the fancy screen you will get your options,,,Glenn

 

system specs on the laptop:
p3 500mhz
333 fsb
256mb
20gigHdd

thats all i remember but i am dropping the OS to win 98 right now because i am tired of it freezing, which i have discovered is caused by trying to run XP home when it just cant run it.

eric

 

I have Dell Laptop CPX H500GT, P3, 256mb sdram with my laptop to run xp necessary to upgrade bios to version A.14.
There are 14 versions, only the last and final one (A.14)supports XP.

No freeze up here.
I did have a problem with some keyoard keys not fuctioning, also seemed to run hot and had some wierd fan noise, I took it apart did some cleaning.
Now all the keys work, got rid of fan noise and even runs cooler now.

 

man you are my savior. where can i find the newest bios and put it on the laptop. you have the exact same system i have. please let me know ASAP. YOU DA MAN. thank you very much asus, please get back to me on those anwsers (sorry a little excited to finally be done fighting this thing)

eric

 

ok i went to dell's sight. they did have that download set up for my laptop. too bad i can't get a os to load. so how can i get it onto my good maching then get it to a cd then into the laptop? i tried downlaoding all those files but they wound't work. thanks asus for your help. now keep it coming so i can finally get this thing to work.

eric

 

i just flashed it over the A.14 and it frooze up on me. any other suggestions asus? i would really apprecaite it.

eric

 

I'have flashed my bios to A14, and now my fan doen't work at all, the laptop heats up in a few minutes and freezes, flashed back to A07, i doesn't start at all . I actually do not want to overclock anything but i had this problem.. and so...