I have an old pc which has 128 of ram and My pc has this intel pentium 2 chip in this huge heat sink it is curently 400mhz and i would really like to overclock it what should i do

thank you

go into the bios and change the multiplyer and fsb. if it is only jumpers pull out your manuel and look at the diagrams.

i dont have the manual i got the pc from my neighbor and its old and i went into the bios i dont see these multiplyer and fsb. so do u have any other advice

thanks

Run a hardware id program on the system and see if you can get the motheroard's spec.

B4 you criticize a bigger man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away, and you have his shoes.

Try one of these programs to see if you can ID the board. Then go to the manufacturer's website & download the manual. You cannot adjust the multiplier, it's locked...all you can do is raise the FSB. It's probably configured thru jumpers or a DIP switch. It's very possible the make/model & jumper settings are printed right on the board.

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

http://www.lavalys.com/products/download.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=3

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz
512MB PC3200
Asus Ti4200 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro

it must be jumpers then. if you can find the manual online you will be lucky

I ran the program and this is what i got now what should i do

CPUID Output
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Number of CPUs 1
Name Intel Pentium II
Code name Deschutes
Specification Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
Family/Model/Stepping 651
Extended Family/Model 0/0
Package Slot 1 SECC
Core Stepping dA1
Technology 0.25µ
Instructions Sets MMX
Clock Speed 397.3 MHz
Clock multiplier x4.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 99.3 MHz
Bus Speed 99.3 MHz
L1 Data Cache 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L2 Latency 7
L2 Speed 198.6 MHz (1/2)
L2 Location On Cartridge
L2 ECC Check enabled
L2 Data Prefetch Logic no
L2 Bus Width 64 bits

eax ebx ecx edx
Function 00000000 00000002 756e6547 6c65746e 49656e69
Function 00000001 00000651 00000000 00000000 0183f9ff
Function 00000002 03020101 00000000 00000000 0c040843

edx eax
MSR 0000002A 00000000 C4880000
MSR 00000017 200060F1 DC5619C0
MSR 0000011E 00000000 0134452F
MSR 0000008B 00000040 00000000

Chipset
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Northbridge Intel i440BX/ZX rev. B1
Southbridge Intel 82371 (PIIX4) rev. 2
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 1.0
AGP Transfert Rate 2x
AGP SBA supported, enabled
AGP Aperture 64 MBytes
Memory Type SDRAM
Memory Size 128 MBytes
Memory Frequency 99.3 MHz (1:1)
CAS# 3.0
RAS# to CAS# 2
RAS# Precharge 3
DRAM Idle Timer 0

Memory SPD
--------------------

DIMM #2

General
Memory type SDRAM
Manufacturer (ID) Samsung (CE00000000000000)
Size 64 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC100 (100 MHz)
Part number KMM3 66S 823CTS-GL
Serial number 20EA5A11
Manufacturing date Week 153/Year 57

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 83 100
CAS# 2.0 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 2 2
RAS# Precharge 2 2
TRAS# 5 5

DIMM #3

General
Memory type SDRAM
Manufacturer (ID) Micron Technology (2CFFFFFFFFFFFFFF)
Size 64 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC125 (125 MHz)
Part number 8LSDT864AG-10BD2
Serial number 4505A547
Manufacturing date Week 50/Year 152

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 83 125
CAS# 2.0 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 2 3
RAS# Precharge 2 3
TRAS# 5 7

Wrong program. You need to use CPUZ v1.26. Download it, unzip it, then click on the CPUZ.exe icon. When the program opens up, click on the MAINBOARD tab

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz
512MB PC3200
Asus Ti4200 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro

As it's a dell you might have quite a bit of trouble. Those systems normally use OEM boards that aren't able overclock because the jumpers or dip switches to do that have been removed on those boards.
The 440bx is a good chipset so you may try SoftFSB. It works with my Asus P2B 440BX board.
Download the program and see if you either find your board in the setting and if that doesn't work check the list of clock chips below the mainboard setup and see if you fin one of them on your board. But only work with the correct one!
It all depends if that chip is able to run above 100MHz FSB because raising the FSB is the only way to OC that Pentium2.
My Pentium2 350MHz would have run up to 465MHz but I had to settle with 392MHz (112MHz FSB) because my ISA cards wouldn't work with a higher FSB!

Hmmmm...didn't notice it was a Dell

Take Free Weasel's advice.

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz
512MB PC3200
Asus Ti4200 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro

any of u have AIM it would really help me im all confused

thank you

Did a Google on overclocking my Pentium 2 and your comments came up......thanks a lot for the good information and for being so willing to help others.