Risky FSB OC?

[MiXdNuTs]

I have a shuttle AN35N400 Ultra. I fried my last bios chip by setting the FSB to only 204MHz! WTF! Anyway, I now have a Mobile Barton 2500+ and I want to mess with FSB overclocking because my CPU, Ram, and Cooling are up to it. I am not sure if my system will die again. I can't afford to keep feeding my motherboard $20 BIOS chips. Any suggestions. I guess I could just jack the multiplier up to 12.5 and leave the FSB at 200MHz, but thats only hard and not [H]ard. Any suggestions before I start playing roulette?

EDIT: I am using an ATI Radeon 9700PRO and from what I hear ATI cards hate Overclocked AGP busses. Do you know if my board has a lock for the AGP bus? I can't clearly find a mention of it in BIOS. Thanks.

 

[bobmanfoo]

check my specs. it couldn't go any higher than 230, i think its the chipset that is maxing out.

 

[Dem]

I can't get any higher than about 215 FSB on my motherboard, and I prefer 210 for being stable.

200 doesn't seem to be trouble for nforce boards, but going higher than 200 seems to be a no-no.

Erik

 

[eViL_M@LuM]

241FSB on my DFI lanpart NF2 Ultra and 261 last night on an infinity DFI Ultra NF2 400 before the PSU decided to go poof an fry the board.

 

[MiXdNuTs]

Originally posted by eViL_M@LuM
241FSB on my DFI lanpart NF2 Ultra and 261 last night on an infinity DFI Ultra NF2 400 before the PSU decided to go poof an fry the board.

Doh! I feel you man.

 

[jamestime88]

I am using an ATI Radeon 9700PRO and from what I hear ATI cards hate Overclocked AGP busses. Do you know if my board has a lock for the AGP bus? I can't clearly find a mention of it in BIOS. Thanks.

yes your board is agp and pci locked.