Overclocking a OEM Dell
 

I have a P4 HT dell PC 4600. I was trying to overclock it and I got it up to 3.2 from the stock 2.8 but I can't seem to get my SATA drives to pop back up. Not being recoginzed by BIOS. anybody got any suggestions as to how I can get my ---- back? If I yank the plug out and reset it back to factory defaults I get my SATA's back but if I overclock it at all I lose them.

I need some help from anyone who speaks Geek.

All threads with out Pic suck so heres my frankenstein.
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and yes those are twist ties holding the 120mm fan in a 90mm hole. I used a Hole saw/Dremel combo for the Super Terrific HMT air vent there.

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dell motherboards are worthless, and cases are cheep.

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Not if you get the 14 jigahertz version 8)

Maybe the fact that they aren't working is a sign

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cases are cheap but a hole saw was in the garage. a case wasn't.
WTF? bolts are cheap but Bitchasscraker used JB weld for a BOV. Whats the difference here? It ------- worked. His car hauls ass and my ---- flows like a champ.

The issue is the BIOS. does anybody here know anything about PLL's or BIOS info? I OC'd the PLL I have, 952601 using the layout for PLL 952607 which is pretty much the same but not really. I am trying to find the differerances between the two. Maybe I can re-flash my bios but I dunno.

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I don't know. I build my own because I know what parts are put in it, it isn't full of bullshit software, and I haven't had any problems like this (yet)...

No clue what a PLL is, but I've never heard of an oc'ed proc making drives disappear. Is there a bios update for the motherboard?

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Ahem. My car.

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the problem is you just have 2 hardrives laying in a case, one with the metal topside laying acrost the live moltex connector pins. :P

Might want to try unhooking that cathode light too, the voltage regulators they come with are junk and usualy cause problems with the PS.

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For real though, when you're overclocking and you hit the limit...funny things happen in BIOS. Weird glitches everywhere, especially BIOS. Infact, you might not find glitches anywhere else but in BIOS. You may have fried something serious...I don't know much about dell motherboards but you may be able to get away with just resetting CMOS and trying again.

There might be corruption in the CMOS from your overclocking, so either reset it with the jumper or pull the battery out. I'd start there first. Just restarting the computer won't do it.

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There seem to be a lot of substandard Dell motherboards. I don't know Dells very well, but two of my three P4's were pulled off of dead Optiplex 160 motherboards.

I have a friend who overclocked his HP; it had an MSI motherboard and he just looked up the numbers on it until he found MSI's BIOS for it which allowed him to fiddle clock speeds. The HP BIOS didn't offer any such feature.

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dude you got a dell.



what ever happened to that guy

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He went to HS with an ex of mine from Chattanooga. Got busted for possession, and Dell didn't want him as their rep anymore.

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He's also gay. Must love the O0.

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got plenty ====) in the joint

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Getting drugs for it too I bet. ::)

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Got caught trying to buy weed, and Dell dropped him promptly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Guy#Arrest

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ismugshots.jpg

"Dude like my butt's gonna leak!"

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http://www.andiamsomebody.com/archiv...e_dell_guy.php

Like father, like son :l

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good tip about the lights I didn't know that. I can reset the box no sweat and it will still be overclocked, when I pull the plug on it, reset bios and I got normal clock speeds and all my drives. HP was smart JD they used good ----. Dell used cheap ----. Its odd, I can run Sis Sandra on this thing all day with no problems but just no drives. Im goin to try a different PLL and see what I get I suppose.

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Hard drives don't really like being run at those kinds of angles. The bearings take a ---- pretty quickly.

Can't you just buy a faster pc? that ---- is so cheap these days.

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i wouldn't bother overclocking a stock Dell PC. They're just not built to do it properly. Alot of times when you overclock the CPU, things like the PCI bus, north bridge, south bridge, and other controller get affected and do wierd stuff. I just don't bother with it, the performance gains arn't worth frying your PC or screwing it up for a few megahertz more.

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so my hard drives are going to take a ---- beacause they are at an angle? dont think so. they mount them in servers are verticle or horizontal angles so I think my 2 HD's that have been running like that for about 2 years are going to be just fine.

and maybe E-bola didn't read that post I got about .5gig out of it, not "a few megahertz" Haven't tried yet but I bet I could rip a DVD like 10-15 minutes faster now.

I was just looking for a little help with why my bios drops my sata drives. My bios is up to date I believe. I don't guess anyone knows anything about OEM MB's or PLL's?

too funny I was waiting for ---- about the fan in there at a fucked up angle or it being held in with a twist tie but the HD's! lol.

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Your Dell BIOS, or the company that manufactured your motherboard for Dell's BIOS?

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Well my Dell Bios, but you are hitting on the same thing I have been debating. If I can find out who realy made the board (asus prints them, and sells to Dell or whatever) then maybe I can re-flash the Bios with per se, asus's bios. But Im still not sure if thats going to solve my problem. I understand the Bios is locked but is the chipset locked as well? In other words if I get a bios on it that works and is unlocked I'm afriad I still wont be able to change the multiplyer

I'm stumped. :1

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Dude, both OEM motherboard equivalent and chipset Q's are an easy search of one of the overclocking forums. Get your search on homey.

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Good point, I've been moving into a new house and doing all this ---- when I really need to slow down and wait till I have time to research and do ti right.

but I wanna go faster now damn it.

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or you could buy a 50 dollar decent motherboard and not deal with the choked up dell fsb








p.s. if your pics where higher res i would have stole your windows product key :6

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Yeah I thought about it afterwards but you can get them off the net all day anyway so ---- it. I don't think I can get a MB with sata 800 or better FSB 478 socket DDR 400 Ram Dual channel can I? I'll have to chekc on that cause I might just say ---- it and do that.

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That motherboard is either asus or intel. Get your search on son.

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Yeah Im still looking but everythign so far is pointing to Asus. now the quest is finding some exact numbers

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Regarding the DUDE YOU'RE GETTING A DELL guy,

uhhhh :l

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Holy ---- man. I guess he got desperate

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Thanks for keeping tabs on the gay lifestyle for us, Danno. Most HMTers are too busy ------- ----- to pay attention.