GA-P35-DS3L Overclocking - BIOS keeps on resetting

[cprince]

Hi,

I have the Gigabye GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0 with an E6550. I overclock the processor to 2.8GHz by setting the FSB to 400MHz. I'm using stock CPU and northbridge cooling. The memory multiplier is 2 so that I don't overclock the RAM( 4 x 1GB DDR2 800). The system runs fine and very stable if it booted correctly. However, occasionally, during cold booting the motherboard would reset the BIOS to the default factory settings as if though I had cleared the BIOS. This tells me that something is wrong with my overclocking settings. I've tried increasing the RAM, Northbridge, and FSB voltages to +.2V, but still no help. I find that the time between BIOS resets is longer if I don't mess with the voltages and leave them at normal. I leave the RAM settings at SPD, and I have not tried to change the CPU voltage. What do you think is wrong with my settings? Thanks for your help.

 

[toadeater]

I suspect the trouble is that you are using four sticks of RAM. You may have to loosen the timings and/or raise the RAM voltage to +.3v. I don't think it's the CPU.

Check all your voltages, it could be the PSU causing instability.

 

[hclarkjr]

there is a post here about this issue but i can not find it, i wish anandtech would fix the search feature here :thumbsdown: a lot of people have had this problem with this board, hopefully somebody can find that post and give the link for it

 

[Idontcare]

DO you save your BIOS settings as a profile as well as saving them by pressing F10 to "save and exit"?

I found saving my BIOS settings to a profile (the red background screen) helped to stabilize the rebooting phenomenon with the DS3L.

There seems to be 3 or 4 dominate reasons for folks to have their DS3L not save BIOS settings, determining which one is ailing your board can take some time. I only have 1 of 5 DS3L's give me any trouble, others aren't so lucky.

The thread to checkout is: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ht_key=y&keyword1=DS3L

 

[hclarkjr]

thank you Idontcare :thumbsup: i searched for a good 15 minutes and could not get that thread to come up from a search

 

[Idontcare]

Yeah its definitely a case of "living history" here, you really got to rely on posters who personally recall the threads of relevance.

In my case I knew the specific thread to look for as I had posted in it myself a couple months ago.

But just doing a search for DS3L and then attempting to find the thread of interest out of the 100's that the search pulls up is rather laborious.

 

[kirilus]

Does anyone know how to adjust CAS 4-4-4-12 to 5-5-5-15 and set the DRAM Voltage to 1.9~2.1v on this board? I'm trying to get my E8400 to 4GHz.

 

[Idontcare]

I believe it is "cntrl + F1" you must press while in the BIOS to have the advanced memory timings page made visible. It's either cntrl-F1 or just F1.

 

[kentsfield]

Press ctrl+F1 when you enter the bios (main page). And than go to intelligent tweaker.

 

[hclarkjr]

i wonder why i do not have to hit those keys to get the advanced settings to appear? mine are showing by default all the time. i have the F5 bios on a revision 2 board

 

[Idontcare]

Its a good question. I'm with F7 bios and it does require the extra keyboard work to get the menu to appear. Rev2 of the mobo too.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

I also have this problem... I have settled with a lower overclock of 2.56GHz vs 2.93GHz on an E4500 and so far it hasn't spazzed out on me. I think it's the 1066 strapping: as soon as I hit 266FSB, it screws up.

Anyway, I forget what rev I have. I remember something about having a rev 1 board flashed with a rev 2 F7 BIOS... But that can't be right.

 

[kpo6969]

Try beta bios F9a
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Sup...el.aspx?ProductID=2629

I was still using F8f till this release.
F8 final not so hot.

 

[chuck111157]

I cranked the FSB to 500Mhz, I had to bump the voltages up .2v in the Intelligent Tweaker, set the vcore to 1.4v (in the power settings options it shows as 1.424v) and use the standard setting instead of performance or turbo with Bios F7
and my E6320 runs stable at 3.5, a lot faster than the 1.86 default.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Oh snap, I just necroed a 7 month old thread... Ooops.

Anyway, thanks.