| Can't get my new Athlon 64 to Overclock... any ideas? [message #64500] |
Mon, 13 February 2006 07:18  |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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Picked up a new Gigabyte mobo with an Athlon 64 3000+ (combo
deal, came packaged together in the same box, so compatibility
issues can't be the case here), and I can't get the BIOS to save
CPU overclocking settings. Anyone know this kinda stuff really
well that might be able to help me out?
I've tried both entering it manually at boot-up, and also the
EZTune windows utility that comes with the board, but neither
one has worked. Settings don't get saved & it still runs at 2.1
GHZ instead of the 3 GHZ equivalent that should be able to get
out of this CPU.
I used the same DDR RAM sticks that I had in my old mobo...
this couldn't be the problem, could it? I know this board can
take PC 3200, but the RAM I currently have in there is a bit
older - maybe 2700 (not sure - would have to verify that).
The RAM shouldn't place any limits on whether or not I can
overclock this puppy, should it?
It's a Gigabyte GA-K8U mobo with a ULi M1689 Chipset, running
on Win XP Home, two sticks of 512k DDR DIMM's. XP is up-to-date
except for I have not installed Service Pack 2 (actually, tried
to install it yesterday when I first noticed it came out, but
had to boot into "safe" mode & revert back to the state prior
to the install, since Windows wouldn't boot up normally after
installing it).
Neil
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