Pentium 4 not willing to Overclock!

[Adventure Man]

Hi guys, I have a Biostar P4M900-M4 Socket 478 Motherboard, a pentium 4 3.4 ghz 1MB Prescott cpu and 3 gigs of Gskill DDR2-667 ram (a 2gb piece and a 1 gb piece filling in both slots on the mobo with a frequency of 333 mhz).

My problem is that when I try to overclock my cpu I get no change in speed even though I change the cpu bus speed. This cpu has a multiplier of 17 with a bus speed of 200 mhz, I tried to change the 200 to upwards of 220 and have seen no change whatsoever in the cpu speed. CPU-Z even reports that there is no change in the bus speed either, that it's still 200! I've made the bus speed change in the bios AND with biostar's windows application for overclocking "WarpSpeeder". Both with the same dismal result.

Am I doing something wrong here? Are my cpu/fsb speeds locked? My cpu idles at 32 celsius and I feel that I could get at least a 200 mhz overclock.
Any advice?
Thank you,
A.M.

 

[addy999]

Well yea its seems like the speed is locked ////.. you have to replace your overclock...

 

[footballdude2k3]

3.4 isnt too bad, i would only overclock if you need to because they are getting kinda old, i would say just upgrade kinda soon

 

[Adventure Man]

Well yea its seems like the speed is locked ////.. you have to replace your overclock...

what do you mean when you say "you have to replace your overclock"?????

 

[TFT]

what do you mean when you say "you have to replace your overclock"?????

We do apologize for some of our members

 

[Adventure Man]

We do apologize for some of our members

any idea what he meant by "replace overclock"? replace motherboard maybe?

 

[oscaryu1]

That's what I WOULDN'T do. The board itself will probably buy you a new processor.

If it's a prebuilt computer, it'll be locked.

 

[INTELCRAZY]

I don't know about replacing anything besides that board. Biostar is not a good brand, IMO. And they have a worse reputation when it comes to OC'ing.

 

[Adventure Man]

I don't know about replacing anything besides that board. Biostar is not a good brand, IMO. And they have a worse reputation when it comes to OC'ing.

yeah u r right. I have an 8800 gts hooked up to it and all my games are crashing like crazy, blue screens too. I have a weird audio issue in COD 2. I'm not gonna bother trying to figure out why the mobo is bad. I've used Biostar in the past and they should only be used if the computer will be used by your Grandmother, ie internet, ms word, chat. More then that and you're asking for a headache. Biostar makes mostly low end crap. Even their pricier mobos aren't too good.

I do admit though that for basic computing needs Biostar motherboards work well.