Interesting hardware problem

[Man-wai CHANG]

> Ah, Chang, what is it with Hong Kongers and overclocking ? (just
> kidding! No flames about Singaporeans, please, we're sensitive!) ;)

Anyone remembered the Celeron 300A? I bought 3 of them, 1 slot-1 and 2 
socket 370. All overclockable to 450MHz if not higher.

I had an Abit BP6, running 2 socket-370 Celeron 300A with SMP. Those 
were the days. :)

> The only time I tried overclocking was with the Abit Dual Celeron board
> many years ago. I experienced the same problems as yourself, and also
> unexplained reboots and hangs. It turns out that it had something to do
> with the motherboard design itself, with one capacitor on the board that
> was not rated high enough, IIRC. You should probably check if other
> board users are experiencing similar problems, and if there are any
> work-arounds.

The CUBX is really old by now. But I don't understand why overclocking 
would make the BIOS find more memory... funny...

BTW, it doesn't make sense to overclock CPU now as the speed increase is 
likely less than 50% as in Celeron 300A. :)

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