Recent content by sremick

It's not the BIOS else it would also appear in the clean Windows install on the separate test HDD. In this Windows environment, I've set the power setting to "performance", with the min CPU state set to 100%, and am testing with the laptop plugged-in to AC.

Sequence. :) As I was trying things, I had tried a BIOS update fairly early in the process. The HDD swap/fresh install test was the most-recent in order to fully eliminate hw-vs-sw. I will try ripping out software like you suggest next.

This one has been kicking my butt for a while and I just can't seem to sort it out. Laptop is an HP 15-f039wm, running Win10 Home, with an Intel Celeron N2840 CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/82103/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2840-1M-Cache-up-to-2_58-GHz A while back (laptop isn't mine), the...

Ahh, first post. Be gentle. You might as well consider me technologically-adept but new to modern OCing. I understand what's going on but I'm having trouble getting the right details to make things work well here. I just built a new PC and tried to do everything right (see my signature for...