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965P-DQ6 + 7950GT will not allow me to change FSB settings.
Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6,
Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. |
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965P-DQ6 + 7950GT will not allow me to change FSB settings.
On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote:
Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? |
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965P-DQ6 + 7950GT will not allow me to change FSB settings.
On Mar 29, 4:40 pm, Paul wrote:
Wade wrote: On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote: Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? If there was absolutely no +12V, it wouldn't boot. If the power supply was weak, then maybe anything demanding a little more power, might cause the PSU to switch off. So the question is, how did you determine it is not giving any power on +12V, and under what conditions ? Did you check the +12V on the main connector, the +12V on the 2x2 connector, the +12V on a Molex drive connector ? Paul The 2x2 is what I am referring to (plugs in to the mobo) - according to SpeedFan it fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.5. I checked on my AMD system with speedfan and it's getting 12 - 12.5, with an antec 350w. The power supply in question is a G3G (some generic brand) 500W. |
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965P-DQ6 + 7950GT will not allow me to change FSB settings.
On Mar 29, 3:54 pm, "Wade" wrote:
On Mar 29, 4:40 pm, Paul wrote: Wade wrote: On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote: Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? If there was absolutely no +12V, it wouldn't boot. If the power supply was weak, then maybe anything demanding a little more power, might cause the PSU to switch off. So the question is, how did you determine it is not giving any power on +12V, and under what conditions ? Did you check the +12V on the main connector, the +12V on the 2x2 connector, the +12V on a Molex drive connector ? Paul The 2x2 is what I am referring to (plugs in to the mobo) - according to SpeedFan it fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.5. I checked on my AMD system with speedfan and it's getting 12 - 12.5, with an antec 350w. The power supply in question is a G3G (some generic brand) 500W. I looked around some more and it appears that speedfan has problems getting good readings with 965 boards. Back to square one. |
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965P-DQ6 + 7950GT will not allow me to change FSB settings.
Wade wrote:
On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote: Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? If there was absolutely no +12V, it wouldn't boot. If the power supply was weak, then maybe anything demanding a little more power, might cause the PSU to switch off. So the question is, how did you determine it is not giving any power on +12V, and under what conditions ? Did you check the +12V on the main connector, the +12V on the 2x2 connector, the +12V on a Molex drive connector ? Paul |
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Wade wrote:
On Mar 29, 3:54 pm, "Wade" wrote: On Mar 29, 4:40 pm, Paul wrote: Wade wrote: On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote: Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? If there was absolutely no +12V, it wouldn't boot. If the power supply was weak, then maybe anything demanding a little more power, might cause the PSU to switch off. So the question is, how did you determine it is not giving any power on +12V, and under what conditions ? Did you check the +12V on the main connector, the +12V on the 2x2 connector, the +12V on a Molex drive connector ? Paul The 2x2 is what I am referring to (plugs in to the mobo) - according to SpeedFan it fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.5. I checked on my AMD system with speedfan and it's getting 12 - 12.5, with an antec 350w. The power supply in question is a G3G (some generic brand) 500W. I looked around some more and it appears that speedfan has problems getting good readings with 965 boards. Back to square one. Try leaving the BIOS alone, and use Clockgen to overclock. Your motherboard is mentioned here, as being supported. Once overclocked in Windows, load up with Prime95, to see if there are any power issues. This may turn out to be a BIOS issue with E4300, you never know. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php Paul |
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On Mar 30, 1:41 am, Paul wrote:
Wade wrote: On Mar 29, 3:54 pm, "Wade" wrote: On Mar 29, 4:40 pm, Paul wrote: Wade wrote: On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote: Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? If there was absolutely no +12V, it wouldn't boot. If the power supply was weak, then maybe anything demanding a little more power, might cause the PSU to switch off. So the question is, how did you determine it is not giving any power on +12V, and under what conditions ? Did you check the +12V on the main connector, the +12V on the 2x2 connector, the +12V on a Molex drive connector ? Paul The 2x2 is what I am referring to (plugs in to the mobo) - according to SpeedFan it fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.5. I checked on my AMD system with speedfan and it's getting 12 - 12.5, with an antec 350w. The power supply in question is a G3G (some generic brand) 500W. I looked around some more and it appears that speedfan has problems getting good readings with 965 boards. Back to square one. Try leaving the BIOS alone, and use Clockgen to overclock. Your motherboard is mentioned here, as being supported. Once overclocked in Windows, load up with Prime95, to see if there are any power issues. This may turn out to be a BIOS issue with E4300, you never know. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php Paul I was thinking about doing that with Gigabyte's EasyTune program, any reason to use ClockGen over that? |
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965P-DQ6 + 7950GT will not allow me to change FSB settings.
Wade wrote:
On Mar 30, 1:41 am, Paul wrote: Wade wrote: On Mar 29, 3:54 pm, "Wade" wrote: On Mar 29, 4:40 pm, Paul wrote: Wade wrote: On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote: Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? If there was absolutely no +12V, it wouldn't boot. If the power supply was weak, then maybe anything demanding a little more power, might cause the PSU to switch off. So the question is, how did you determine it is not giving any power on +12V, and under what conditions ? Did you check the +12V on the main connector, the +12V on the 2x2 connector, the +12V on a Molex drive connector ? Paul The 2x2 is what I am referring to (plugs in to the mobo) - according to SpeedFan it fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.5. I checked on my AMD system with speedfan and it's getting 12 - 12.5, with an antec 350w. The power supply in question is a G3G (some generic brand) 500W. I looked around some more and it appears that speedfan has problems getting good readings with 965 boards. Back to square one. Try leaving the BIOS alone, and use Clockgen to overclock. Your motherboard is mentioned here, as being supported. Once overclocked in Windows, load up with Prime95, to see if there are any power issues. This may turn out to be a BIOS issue with E4300, you never know. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php Paul I was thinking about doing that with Gigabyte's EasyTune program, any reason to use ClockGen over that? Use whatever works :-) Is Easytune a "real time tool" ? Or does it require a reboot to take hold ? I would expect Clockgen to be instantaneous. Paul |
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On Mar 30, 6:51 am, Paul wrote:
Wade wrote: On Mar 30, 1:41 am, Paul wrote: Wade wrote: On Mar 29, 3:54 pm, "Wade" wrote: On Mar 29, 4:40 pm, Paul wrote: Wade wrote: On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote: Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. Upon further inspection it appears that my PSU is not giving any power on the 12V - I assume that is the cause? If there was absolutely no +12V, it wouldn't boot. If the power supply was weak, then maybe anything demanding a little more power, might cause the PSU to switch off. So the question is, how did you determine it is not giving any power on +12V, and under what conditions ? Did you check the +12V on the main connector, the +12V on the 2x2 connector, the +12V on a Molex drive connector ? Paul The 2x2 is what I am referring to (plugs in to the mobo) - according to SpeedFan it fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.5. I checked on my AMD system with speedfan and it's getting 12 - 12.5, with an antec 350w. The power supply in question is a G3G (some generic brand) 500W. I looked around some more and it appears that speedfan has problems getting good readings with 965 boards. Back to square one. Try leaving the BIOS alone, and use Clockgen to overclock. Your motherboard is mentioned here, as being supported. Once overclocked in Windows, load up with Prime95, to see if there are any power issues. This may turn out to be a BIOS issue with E4300, you never know. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php Paul I was thinking about doing that with Gigabyte's EasyTune program, any reason to use ClockGen over that? Use whatever works :-) Is Easytune a "real time tool" ? Or does it require a reboot to take hold ? I would expect Clockgen to be instantaneous. Paul I believe it is real time. |
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965P-DQ6 + 7950GT will not allow me to change FSB settings.
On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, "Wade" wrote:
Hi, I have a very strange problem. My setup is an E4300, GA-965P-DQ6, Leadtek PX7950GT 512, 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 ram (800/6400 and 5-5-5-12 timings) with a 500W PSU. If I alter the FSB or PCI-E speed at all, even if I do not change it from default (200 and 100 respectively), when I save the changes and reboot the computer does a reboot cycle and resets both of those settings back to default (managed by bios). I can lower the multiplier to 6x and I can still not even set the FSB to it's own default without it being reset. I have tried clearing the CMOS, and it didn't help. Some other people have had issues with getting a high overclock without increasing voltages, but understand that I can not even manually set the default settings without it resetting. I have run Orthos blend and small FFT both overnight without issues, and I can use CIA2 to get to 2200 or so and it is stable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did *try* to talk to Gigabyte about this through their global support interface, but the response I got back was basically "I don't know", but in 500 words which try to blame my ram. Given that I can't set _default_ speeds I think it's clearly a BIOS bug, and I am running the F9 BIOS which is the latest and only one on their site. It is rev 3.3, if that matters. I have solved this issue - replacing the Leadtek 7950GT with a Powercolor X1950 Pro fixed it completely. Running at a modest 2.6ghz now. Wont be buying any Gigabyte mobos again. |
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