Bsoding in offset mode?

[hunkeelin]

I am not newbie in RE series Bios. I've own RE4 and now RE5. I enter offset mode and no matter how small the offset voltage is (e.g +/-0.001) it always ends with a bsode during window startup. I'm talking about vCore. What's going on?

 

[Burpo]

More than likely, not enough voltage..

 

[Ketchup]

Yes, more than likely voltage is not enough, or you hit a ceiling that the CPU cannot surpass at any voltage. What speed are you at?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

My best guess is this.

There should be ANOTHER voltage setting embedded in that ASUS BIOS. Look in any submenu having to do with "CPU Power Management" or "Digi+" or "VRM." Scour through the BIOS, but there could be a setting for "Extra Voltage for Turbo" or "Extra Turbo Voltage."

From my readings, the trick was to adjust the "Offset" voltage to a + value as close to zero as you can, while raising the "Extra" setting to get stability.

"Offset" may also affect idle stability. LLC can figure into getting that minimum voltage for stable idle.

Some folks have played with negative offset values, and it can work -- you just don't want it to cause a crash in the idle state, or when the system returns to idle after an otherwise stable load stress.

You also should have taken some monitor readings at stock and successively higher stable clocks. This would give you some guideline to compare in rechecking the BIOS monitors before you let it continue booting to Windows.