Role of OS in OC (PII 300 SL2W8)

[Guest]

I have a Pentium II 300 SL2W8 that I want to over clock as in Tom's article (http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/98q4/981215/sl2w8-01.html). I did the tape over the B21 method, and also used SoftFSB. The problem I'm having is Windows 98 (first or second edition) locks up on boot up with the tape method, or locks up instantly when changing the FSB using SoftFSB. However, SoftFSB successfully overclocks just fine on the same machine with Windows 2000. Any idea why the overclocking is successful using Windows 2000 but not with Windows 98?
Off the top of my head, main system components are:
PII 300 SL2W8 Costa Rica 40th week
128 MB PC 133 DIMM + 64 MB PC 100 DIMM
Fujitsu 6.4 Gig HD (I know this HD does not like the PCI bus running at 41.5 MHZ (with FSB as 83 MHZ))
Maxtor 5.7 Gig HD (Windows 2000 was on this hard drive in a dual boot.. Windows 98 was on the Fujitsu (also tried another hard drive with win98 but never could overclock successfully)

If you would like any more details on my system, just ask...
Thanks for any help you can offer!

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by RipperRoo on 03/16/01 05:20 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Unolocogringo]

have you tried raising the core voltage???? by covering A-119, B-119 and a-121 you can up your voltage to 2.2volts instead of default of 2.0.in many cases this helps.

 

[Croaker]

I have a p2 266 & p2 300 both will only overclock to 350(3.5*100) I have tried everything to improve on this. Try starting with 3*100 and work up. I have tried many other combos and 350 tested the best.

 

[Guest]

I'm thinking that it's not a voltage problem or something like that.. since my processor really is a PII 450 that Intel slowed down to 300 mhz. What is really confusing me is that the overclocking works in Windows 2000, but not in Windows 98. Has anyone had this kind of problem also?