When I said How do I get it to boot faster I meant how do I get the comp to actually boot faster than 558mgz? It won't even get to the windows screen. What do I need to do different to get it to run faster? Adjust the CPU core voltage? And thanks for the advise on the fan thing Cyborg.

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Jethro:
Pitabred is the one to ask on the whole overclocking thing. He's into that kind of stuff.

Ok, thanks. Pita, think ya could help me out???

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If your really into this O/C'ing, check anand's site, especially the forums. There's a lot of overclockers who lurk there.

From my limited experience, heat is your problem. You definitely have to get that temperature down.

You may have to increase the voltage to get it to boot. Increase it in small increments, and remember, the higher the voltage, the higher the heat.

One way to check if heat is the problem. Open up the case and get a regular household fan and blow air into the system. That should bring your case temperature way down and you may be able to get the system to boot at that o/c'd speed.

Not all processors are overclockable. Celerons have a very high success rate. I'm not sure how well P3's will do. I think Sharkey's also has a pretty good overclocking section. I think they rate the different processors on their overclockablility.

Do you really want to take a chance and fry that p3. If I toast my Celeron, it wont cost me much to replace it.