Forcing RAM Divider

[stelleg151]

Im not sure if this should go in the Motherboard section, but I really need to set a divider for my ram so that I can OC my proc on my Gigabyte 6100 board. The FSB goes up to 300, but my two sticks of crap dont go past 210 or so.

I was thinking if there was some way to trick the BIOS into thinking it was pc2100 (which the BIOS does detect, I tried with a stick of 2700 and it automatically detected and set the divider) then that would be a good solution, but I dont know how I could do that.

Anyways, Im not sure this is possible, and havent found anything on it yet, but anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Makaveli]

I would suggest lowering the Ram timings first. I don't think i've seen any modded bios's for that board.

O almost forgot Try A64 Tweaker

 

[stelleg151]

Thanks man, Ill check it out. Only ever used Clockgen, and it dont support the 6100 chipset, but hopefully the tweaker does.

Oh yeah and no ram timings options either.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I'm pretty sure the bios for that board has dividers. They are labeled "mem clock index value" default is 200mhz, you can change to 166,133,etc..

 

[stelleg151]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
I'm pretty sure the bios for that board has dividers. They are labeled "mem clock index value" default is 200mhz, you can change to 166,133,etc..

If it is, its not in the frequency/voltage control, and I have checked pretty thoroughly, although I havent gotten the most recent bios, the only update that it quoted on the site was irrelevant. I dont have a floppy drive or a flash drive or I would flash it now.

Thanks for the A64 tweaker idea though, Im now running at 2.4 from 1.6, so a 50 percent OC, not to shabby.

 

[5t3v0]

I remember when I had a Gigabyte board, the advanced menu options were hidden for some unknown reason. To access you had to press CTRL-F1 at the main BIOS screen. Have you tried this?

EDIT: PS. I had no luck setting options at startup using any of the versions of A64Tweaker that I tried. Just BSOD'd on me. The 0.6 beta doesnt seem to save the correct settings so avoid that. There is a 0.31 full version which might be more reliable - wasnt for me. You can download it from here.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: 5t3v0
I remember when I had a Gigabyte board, the advanced menu options were hidden for some unknown reason. To access you had to press CTRL-F1 at the main BIOS screen. Have you tried this?

EDIT: PS. I had no luck setting options at startup using any of the versions of A64Tweaker that I tried. Just BSOD'd on me. The 0.6 beta doesnt seem to save the correct settings so avoid that. There is a 0.31 full version which might be more reliable - wasnt for me. You can download it from here.

He's right about the CTRL-F1, all of my gigabyte boards had the advanced menu hidden.