Pentium M crashes after overclocking? HELP!?

Question

Please help, I've tried to overclock my system. It's a satellite A55-s326 laptop, and the specs are below:

Pentium M 725 - 1600MHz; (Centrino system)
512MB DDR SDRAM 333MHz;
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME 64MB;
2 GB DDR RAM, PC2700
i855 board

I've used ClockGen, and here are my initial specs:
CPU: 598.65
FSB:99.76
RAM: 166.27

I ran ClockGen with a PLL selected of ICS 952618, and while using prime95 at it's torture test managed to get my overclock to be the following without test failure:

CPU: 680.56
FSB: 113.43
RAM: 189.04

So after gaining these values and saving them for startup on my laptop, I find that after this most of my programs CRASH on me! I ran Sims 2 and it let me know it crashed and would not continue, and I ran Maya 6 and it crashed on me as well.

What am I doing wrong? Am I leaving something out? Should I do another step to prevent the crashing? Or do I have to open up my laptop to do the manual overclocking techniques? Thanks!

Answer 1

Ok, here are the basics. CPUs can only be overclocked so far. When you overclock, it is a step by step overclocking that you do. In your case just step down a little, then try to load your games. Step down a step until you games load.

There is a difference of max overclocking without a test failure and game playability.
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Though your CPU can run faster does not make it game capable. If you could overclock to a max and you were (not possible) able to get the games to work, you might have problems like overheating to deal with.

You know why they do not have 4.0 GHz, because of the serious overheating issues. So for now 3.8 GHz is the max speed.

Go to pcworld.com for any more info.

Answer 2

Hi. You don't mention voltages. It's risky to increase them but unless you use less aggressive O/Cing you may have to. Your own risk!

Answer 3

do A roll back if that Don't work do systerm restore point

Answer 4

If you don't know what you are doing - DON'T OVERCLOCK.

If you must do it, look here for help.

http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/