So I have this old Acer Aspire 4530 that I bought probably in 2006. It's been through a lot, all the peripherals are broken, and it's basically a slab of tech wired in to a bunch of things, positioned on an upturned shelf (the back (where the exhaust is) is angled upwards with an airflow under the computer... pretty much forming a right triangle with on angle being around 10 degrees high).
So basically, it's non-mobile laptop, that's far outlived it's warranty, and I am too poor to buy anything to upgrade it. Then I heard about overclocking, and I have been trying to do it for the last few days with no success. Turns out, I have a locked BIOS and a motherboard that confuses every overclocking program I have downloaded.
I've checked the forum for nothing really useful, and before you say how OCing a laptop is useless, it's really not much of a laptop anymore. If I need more cooling, I could take apart the case and stick the motherboard near a fan (at least that's what I have planned) because its immobile anyways.
(Off topic)
I was also thinking I could just take everything out of the laptop and stick it in one of the 5 computer cases I have laying around, using redneck tools like duct tape and maybe a saw for the disk drive (I mean cut into the case, not the drive itself). If anyone has any tips for doing this, let me know.
(On Topic)
ADD Version: My computer is old, broken, immobile, I'm too poor to buy anything for it, and I want to overclock it but the BIOS is locked and no software I've found has worked. Help?
Specs;
Acer Aspire 4530 Laptop
Windows Vista 32bit, Home Premium Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon 64 x2 QL-62, 2.0 GHz
Acer Inc Grasmoor Mainboard
3072 MBytes of RAM (DDR2)
NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
Two hard drives at 142 GBytes
Edited by RandoRisqu - 8/10/12 at 10:20am
So basically, it's non-mobile laptop, that's far outlived it's warranty, and I am too poor to buy anything to upgrade it. Then I heard about overclocking, and I have been trying to do it for the last few days with no success. Turns out, I have a locked BIOS and a motherboard that confuses every overclocking program I have downloaded.
I've checked the forum for nothing really useful, and before you say how OCing a laptop is useless, it's really not much of a laptop anymore. If I need more cooling, I could take apart the case and stick the motherboard near a fan (at least that's what I have planned) because its immobile anyways.
(Off topic)
I was also thinking I could just take everything out of the laptop and stick it in one of the 5 computer cases I have laying around, using redneck tools like duct tape and maybe a saw for the disk drive (I mean cut into the case, not the drive itself). If anyone has any tips for doing this, let me know.
(On Topic)
ADD Version: My computer is old, broken, immobile, I'm too poor to buy anything for it, and I want to overclock it but the BIOS is locked and no software I've found has worked. Help?
Specs;
Acer Aspire 4530 Laptop
Windows Vista 32bit, Home Premium Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon 64 x2 QL-62, 2.0 GHz
Acer Inc Grasmoor Mainboard
3072 MBytes of RAM (DDR2)
NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
Two hard drives at 142 GBytes
Edited by RandoRisqu - 8/10/12 at 10:20am







