game: List all your reasons why an OC wouldn't stick!

[LOUISSSSS]

lets play this game (and help me, of course)

why dont these settings stick in the bios?

FSB (hence, my overclock), PCI-E freq., ram timings

they're there, but are disabled.

the voltages stick though.

 

[faxon]

bios no love you? not giving something enough juice? and why are you OCing your PCI-E frequency? board has an FSB hole? ram timings are to tight? again with the juice. bios update?

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

Try flipping your battery, we've seen this pop up a couple times and this always fixes unruly (E)P35-DS3L motherboard.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Well, mine would revert everytime my processor went up to 266fsb (default is 200) so try 332, maybe?

Or do you mean you can't adjust them at all?

 

[nefariouscaine]

is the board in question the one in your sig??? - I'm thinking possible corruption in bios - if it won't save something isn't right - for an experiment try to adjust something "lower" underclock if you will - just to see if it saves those settings

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Rhonda the Sly
Try flipping your battery, we've seen this pop up a couple times and this always fixes unruly (E)P35-DS3L motherboard.

As in putting it in upside down?


LOUISSSSS, you have to save your overclock settings as a profile, with these Gigabyte boards. They don't "remember" them for very long, if you don't have them saved as a profile, for some ignorant reason.

 

[aigomorla]

louis...

your bios is stuck.


you need to do the cold start option.

pull the battery, wipe the cmos, pull the main rail.

Hold the power button down for 5 sec.

Then let the board sit without power for about 5 min.

If that still doesnt work, reflash bios. If that still doesnt work, you need to do an RMA.

 

[Rhoxed]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
louis...

your bios is stuck.


you need to do the cold start option.

pull the battery, wipe the cmos, pull the main rail.

Hold the power button down for 5 sec.

Then let the board sit without power for about 5 min.

If that still doesn't work, reflash bios. If that still doesnt work, you need to do an RMA.

well said

i recently had a board lose OC capabilities after a fresh bios update (that's what you get with ECS i guess) reverting to the previous bios let me OC again

My problem may have been different, i was able to change everything, and it would stay in bios overclocked, but in windows it wouldn't change from stock (except for voltages)
it stayed like this after multiple cold starts, so i decided it was best to go to a previous known working bios.

 

[Ika]

The BIOS problem happened to me too (overclock settings showed in BIOS, but not in Windows) - I did a google search and apparently it's been happening to some of Gigabyte's more recent boards (P35 and up). I removed my CMOS battery for a while, let the computer chill out, then put it back in and my overclock is fine again.

EDIT: oops, I have a GA-P35-DS3R. I did a BIOS flash to F12 (previously F11) but that didn't fix it, until I did the battery reset.