G4 Digital Audio Overclock question

[Joony]

So I followed this guide to overclock my 733mhz DA to 867mhz. It worked fine at first, so I took it back out to apply arctic silver. Popped it back in, dosen't boot, stuck on the loading screen. I shutdown, repower on, works fine! I look at the system profile, it's rated at 800mhz now! 🙁

The weird thing is that I put that same OCed CPU into another G4, it shows up at 867mhz 😡

Do I need to reset something? BIOS? (i'm a Mac noob 🙂)

thanks!

 

[Mechcozmo]

Press and Hold
Command + Option + P + R
before you hear the startup noise to reset the PRAM

It might help...

 

[Mertzen]

Did you see any noticeable performance increase if I may ask ??

 

[Joony]

no-go on resetting the PRAM 🙁

 

[Mord]

arctic silver is conductive so if you got some of it on the circuit traces it could set it back to 800MHz, unlikely but it could happen.

 

[Joony]

nope, no arctic silver anywhere except the core 🙁