hi, im new here, i need some help with my computer. I have a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 motherboard, with a Intel Pentium 3 866mhz, 133FSB, on Socket 370, with 512mb PC133 SDRAM, AGP4x Visiontek Xtasy, with ATi Radeon 9600SE and 128mb VRAM. I have a maxtor 160gb IDE133 HDD, a WDC 30GB HDD, and a PCI SB512 sound card, running XP home SP1.

Hi AW33

Welcome to PCHF

What appears to be the problem?

whenever i use the BIOS to overclock the FSB from 133 to 140, and i use a program that takes the CPU usage to 100%, it restarts the system. I cant figure out why, as the Heatsync and fan came off a Athlon XP 1.33ghz. It worked when i still had a P3 600EB, but now it wont. And i would think i would be able to take it to 975mhz (150mhz FSB) but again, then windows wont even load. Please help!

To be perfectly honest AW33 I'm not one of Overclocking's greatest fans. It can kill a system outright trying to squeeze the last drop out of it.
Perhaps one the other members can be of more help, sorry.

Welcome to PCHF AW33!

moved to overclocking forum as you are not really introducing yourself.

thanks, im not trying to overclock it totally out of proportion, just to 910 or 975. Because its a P3 the CPU multiplier is locked, so i can only change the FSB. The coppermine cores are supposed to be great overclockers too. i wonder whats wrong.