Athlon xp 2500+ wont perform unless underclocked

karlmalowned

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I have an older system and I've never been able to overclock my cpu, which is a barton 2500+. In the past few years I can only run the clock this athlon xp at only 1.1 ghz, 100mhzx11. I can run it 133x11 (1.4 ghz) sometimes but then it will crash at the loading screen for windows xp most of the time. I don't know if my version of windows being screwed is part of the problem or not.

My mainboard is a A7N8X2.0 Deluxe and my bios is 1008. I tried a athlon xp-m 2600+ on this motherboard too, and it would only run at 100x10, anything higher and it would not start at all. I'm startign to think my motherboard is the problem with these poor performing cpu's.