False positive "overclocking failure" wipes my settings constantly

[mistermiek]

Hi,

I have had this problem now on two different gigabyte motherboards. My last one was a Core 2 duo board, my current is the:
GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD3-B3
I have the latest non-uefi bios for the board.

Here is the problem:
There is this handy feature which detects POST failures due to overclocking, and automatically reverts to default clock and voltage settings.
What happens is, if I ever click "restart now", or choose Shut down->Restart from the start menu, when the computer boots again, it believes it has experienced a failure, and all my BIOS settings are back to default.
My computer is 1000% stable with the overclock I've given it. I've tried going milder with settings, and nothing has any effect on this behavior.

It is INCREDIBLY annoying to have to go into the bios and re-enable my overclock every time I forget to shut down completely and then power on. Even when I remember, it's very annoying to have to intervene instead of just clicking restart and walking away.

Has anyone else had this problem? (Like I said, two different gigabyte boards have had it... MAYBE it is PSU related, but I think it may have even spanned 2 different PSUs.)

Thanks for your help...

 

[EXCellR8]

You should be able to disable that feature in BIOS, no? If not, possibly a small toggle switch on the board itself? Sounds like it's just some safety setting that is enabled by default but I'm not sure. I'd take a look at the manual...

 

[manutdc]

Have the same mobo and I used to have the same problem, but it appears to have gone away. If I remember correctly it was related to me using EasyTune 6 to overclock...since I've redone my overclock manually I've not had the problem.

 

[fixbsod]

It may be an issue specific to Gigabyte boards -- I have a GAZ68XPUD3 rev 1.0 F8 bios and this does happen to me every now and then if I have an odd reset. You can save the BIOS settings with their @BIOS (?) tool and then just load the file if/when it happens again. I *AVOID AT ALL COSTS* from hitting the reset button as this can sometimes trigger it and/or the boot loop issue as well. If you can I would try to hard power off and then turn it back on tho this may not help. I have not heard anything on eliminating this feature but would be interested to know if it can be disabled!

BTW I do not use Easytune / any other OC tools. I have a slight "overclock" of allowing all cores to turbo to 3.9 GHz, not just if only 1 core is used.

 

[lenjack]

I have this board and OC manually so there is no problem. I run my 2500k at 4.5G. Haven't tried higher, but I'm tempted.

 

[mistermiek]

EXCellR8: Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a place to disable this feature...

manutdc, lenjack: It doesn't have anything to do with overclocking software, at least in my case. I do all my clock/voltage/etc adjustments inside the "MIT" panel in the bios.

fixbsod: Nice to hear that someone else is having the same issue.. I will look into the @bios software. When it boots in "slow mode" after a reset, it'd be great if I could just load up some software to restore my good settings. (The frustrating thing is having to power down, go into the bios, restore my good settings, and boot up again.)