Gigabyte GA-7n400 Pro2

[multifacitedonyx]

I have a ga-7n400 pro2, and worst among my complaints is the limits on overvolting. It was not a problem when I had a desktop 2200+, but now that I have a mobile 2400+ it is driving me crazy. The only options in BIOS are to increase vcore by 5% 7.5% and 10%. Starting from 1.45, this does not get me very high. I am stable at 2.4ghz, but know this will go higher with a little more juice.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the Vcore above that limited by the bios? Or to trick the BIOS into thinking this mobile is a desktop, or at least has a base vcore of something like 1.6?

Thanks

 

[Odeen]

Modded Gigabyte K7 motherboard BIOS'es

Courtesy of http://underclock.rocks.it

 

[pooldoc101]

Wire trick it to reset voltage default higher, then you're +5,+7.5,+10, will be respectively higher.http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.html This will give you a guide to wiretrick, just select socket view, then default votage you want. Put a small u shaped wire in cpu socket where it shows.
I did the mod to default to 166 mhz on cpu, helped alot. Good luck and feel free to ask any questions.
Pooldoc101

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: pooldoc101
Wire trick it to reset voltage default higher, then you're +5,+7.5,+10, will be respectively higher.http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.html This will give you a guide to wiretrick, just select socket view, then default votage you want. Put a small u shaped wire in cpu socket where it shows.
I did the mod to default to 166 mhz on cpu, helped alot. Good luck and feel free to ask any questions.
Pooldoc101

Strands from speaker wire work well for this.

 

[multifacitedonyx]

First, thanks for the advice.

I looked at the modded bios, but from what I could see there was no change to the vcore control. I tried the wire trick, but I think I did it wrong. I tried to connect the pins. Should I just put the wires in the respective holes on the mobo and then when I put the CPU in it will connect the wires?

 

[multifacitedonyx]

OK, so I did the wire trick, but I got strange results. I did what the diagram said would get me 1.7 volts, but I ended up with 1.88. This is not due to increasing in BIOS because I have that set to normal. However, my proc is stable at 2.5 which is good. Temps under load are ~ 61 which is not so good.