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I have a socket 754 Sempron 2600+ on a Biostar K8NHA Grand motherboard. The overcloking option in the motherboard's BIOS tops out at 250 FSB (there aren't any higher options at all) so I've been running my Sempron happily at that speed for several months with no problems at all (RAM at a 166 divider so it was running at 216 bus speed).
Yesterday, my system shut down and restarted itself for no apparent reason and loaded Windows at stock CPU and RAM speeds. I figured the BIOS just reset itself so I went into the BIOS to set the overclock again, but the BIOS was still set to 250 FSB even though the system was actually booting at the stock 200 FSB. I cleared and reset the CMOS on the motherboard and let the computer boot once at 200 FSB for both CPU and RAM, then restarted and tried many different overclocking combinations of FSB for CPU and RAM but no matter what, the system still booted every time at 200 FSB. It's almost as if the motherboard is ignoring the BUS settings in the BIOS for some reason. I even reflashed the BIOS (it was already at the newest version) with no change.
Anyway, I can't stand running anything at stock speeds so I need your help. I either need to figure out how to get the settings in the BIOS to take effect when booting the PC again, or I need a software overclocking utility that will let me overclock the machine from within Windows XP. I played around with SoftFSB for a while yesterday evening and it seems to work great. With the memory divider set at 166 (the BIOS did finally take this setting again although it still ignores CPU FSB settings) SoftFSB even let me push the FSB up to 259 with just a bit of instability (a 90 MHz improvement over what I had before) and seems to be totally stable at 258 which is rather nice, and I suspect that it might go even higher when I set the HTT multiplier to 3 instead of 4 when I get home today. The only problem is that SoftFSB doesn't keep settings after a reboot so if I do keep using it, I'll have to manually overclock my CPU any time I restart the computer. This isn't a huge deal, but it is annoying and I'd rather not do it if I don't have to.
I would prefer to get the BIOS to work properly again so I don't have to use any extra applications at all, but if I can't do that, does anyone know of an application that will keep and apply CPU overclock settings after a reboot the way RivaTuner and PowerStrip do for video cards?
Yesterday, my system shut down and restarted itself for no apparent reason and loaded Windows at stock CPU and RAM speeds. I figured the BIOS just reset itself so I went into the BIOS to set the overclock again, but the BIOS was still set to 250 FSB even though the system was actually booting at the stock 200 FSB. I cleared and reset the CMOS on the motherboard and let the computer boot once at 200 FSB for both CPU and RAM, then restarted and tried many different overclocking combinations of FSB for CPU and RAM but no matter what, the system still booted every time at 200 FSB. It's almost as if the motherboard is ignoring the BUS settings in the BIOS for some reason. I even reflashed the BIOS (it was already at the newest version) with no change.
Anyway, I can't stand running anything at stock speeds so I need your help. I either need to figure out how to get the settings in the BIOS to take effect when booting the PC again, or I need a software overclocking utility that will let me overclock the machine from within Windows XP. I played around with SoftFSB for a while yesterday evening and it seems to work great. With the memory divider set at 166 (the BIOS did finally take this setting again although it still ignores CPU FSB settings) SoftFSB even let me push the FSB up to 259 with just a bit of instability (a 90 MHz improvement over what I had before) and seems to be totally stable at 258 which is rather nice, and I suspect that it might go even higher when I set the HTT multiplier to 3 instead of 4 when I get home today. The only problem is that SoftFSB doesn't keep settings after a reboot so if I do keep using it, I'll have to manually overclock my CPU any time I restart the computer. This isn't a huge deal, but it is annoying and I'd rather not do it if I don't have to.
I would prefer to get the BIOS to work properly again so I don't have to use any extra applications at all, but if I can't do that, does anyone know of an application that will keep and apply CPU overclock settings after a reboot the way RivaTuner and PowerStrip do for video cards?
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