hey guys I'm trying to get clockgen to work on my laptop but can't get any of the plls to work, can you please post like exactly what steps I need to take to test each pll to see if it works? my specs are listed to the left
thanks!
OK, heres what I wrote in response to someone else asking the same question via Pm
Its made up of two replies, the second because the first failed in his case
OK first look at my Laptop Overclockers Page for a hint or two.
Then with clockgen find your pll.
I'll assume you haven't gone through all of the pll's. There are only two ways to find out your pll generator.
1. Open up your laptop, find it on the motherboard and then look at what it says it is. I don't advise this.
2. The other option is not for most people as it can void warranties, so instead you can just try with every pll generator in clockgen.
Right to do this accurately you'll need to open clockgen and do these exact instructions.
> Go to pll setup
> Then tick the box named "ignore GSB/PCI"
>Now select the first pll generator and then click read clocks.
> Open pll control and see if it reads 1862 (or very close, and I mean very close)
> If it does great go to step 3.
> If it doesn't, change the pll generator and click read clocks again. Check the Pll control cpu speed. and continue if necessary down the list.
> If noe of them seem to work, do them all again (ps some crash your computer, don't worry just reboot.)
> If none of them work again, you can go to systool but this is harder, reply to me if you want to know how to do this.
3. Right first you need Notebook Hardware Control With this you need to set your cpu to Max performance. This removes the Intel speedstep function that slows down your cpu to save battery life. But its not necessary when you're connected to the power plug.
Next trun up the Hard drive performance and noise level up to the highest it can go (performance and number wise). Then download orthos, this will test the stability.
Right now increase your cpu speed to about 1950Mhz using pll control in clockgen. Then do a stability test in orthos for about 30mins. The go to 1960, and another 30mins, then 1970 etc
As soon you get an error in orthos or your computer crashes its too high so lower it to the previous good one and test orthos on that speed for about 2 hours. If no error, then great! if not then lower and repeat.
Hope that helped.
Will
PS. Never set the clocks to appear at startup, just do it before each time you want a performance boost (ie gaming) Also Notebook Hardware controls (NHC) has a great feature to show the temperatures of your cpu and HDD. Don't lt the CPU ever go above 80 in my opinion. It shouldn't really be above 60 celcius most of the time. (Mine runs at 40-50) Also overclocking using clockgen increases the RAM also, thus further speeding up your PC!!!
k if you want to go down the systool route its risky.
Systool crashes A LOT! because its an early release, so if your computer crashes mulitple times just restart.
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OK with that out of the way you open systool and from what I can remember go to
1. Hardware monitoring> CPU overclocking.
2. Now you need to do the same thing as you did with clockgen. Go thorugh all of the pll's until you get the right one. There are two ways you can know if you have found it. Firstly systool will say " clock generator detected" (or something similar, I'm afraid I can't remember) HOwever don't assume this is true. You get a lot of false positives, so you also have to look at what clock readings it will give you. If you have set the Notebook Hardware control to max performance(you must do this!) on cpu speed, this should be on 1862Mhz(approximately).
3. If it does say the correct speed great, you can then try and move the fsb slider. NOw only do this byb small bits at a time, as otherwise you are going to crash your pc instantly.
4. If this is successful , then do the same as clockgen. For your information I can achieve a relatively stable overclock to about 2250. But I don't like to go to the limits in a laptop, so I am at 2200 most of the time.
I really hope this works.
Either way tell me
and it's 85, and im burning....im missing winter already, just because of my laptop temps :shadedshu
