F9 Bios and is "cold boot issue" a feature or bug?

[levimax]

I noticed an improvement in over clocking from F6 to F7 but still had the random X-Fi driver load issue. F8 and F9 completely solved the X-Fi issue but I noticed no other improvements (no worse either).

I am not convinced the "cold boot" issue is a bug. The only time I experience it is when I am near the limit of stability with over clock settings. When I find what seems to be the highest stable settings I usually back off a little bit and I have no "cold boot issues". If I run "on the edge of stability" I do experience the "cold boot issue". To me it seems like a Bios feature that disables over clock settings if the Bios detects problems during boot up. Compared to removing my video card to reset the CMOS jumper when I push the over clock settings too far this is a great feature.

Not sure, just a thought.

 

[theelectic]

You see, I thought that too, but I can get F7 to 460x7 absolutely stable - 20+ hours of Orthos, two Prime95 instances and Intel TAT running at 100% load. 470 not stable at all and cold boots and resets as usual. 485 complete lockup which requires video card removal and CMOS reset - ugh. With F8 or F9, the cold boot doesn't go away unless I back it waaay the heck down. I went as low as 400 with F8 before I said to hell with it and went back to F7. 10 or even 20MHz I could live with, but not 60! I even have a MCX159 cooler on the NB, and my NB voltage is stock, so I know it can't be that.