Changes in BIOS not happening...

AMDX23800+

AMDX23800+

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Today I finally managed to get windows to recognise the processors instead of identifying them as 'Unknown Devices'.

I did it by uninstalling the processors, then restarting. However, I then restarted again and the BIOS failed to load, so it loaded the original F2 BIOS.

Windows booted, I then updated the BIOS to F6 again...
But now anyway changes on the CPU speed that i make in the BIOS are discarded as soon as windows loads. The CPU is always stock speed now, no matter what I do in the BIOS.
I have updated the BIOS 3 times (tried from a file, and directly from server), but still no changes.

It's as if when windows loads, windows loads the standard processor speeds with it :S

Any ideas?
 
Have you taken some measurable benchmarks and used CPU-z to make sure it's not just windows reporting it incorrectly?

Intel Burn Test, and SuperPi both give outputs measured in time; ie you should have faster results when overclocked than when at the standard BIOS settings.
 
i'm using CPU-Z, and it displays the standard speeds. Voltage changes when i change it in BIOS, but not CPU speeds or memory speeds.

It was changing fine before i made those ammendments to the processor drivers in windows as stated in the first post. :S
 
have the same board and get the same issue at times its odd and only way ive found to fix it is to do this

remove atx and 12v power connectors, remove bios battery leave for a bit with the cmos clear jumper set to clear.
power up and put your settings back
 
Are you sure it's not actually running at the overclocked speed? Windows always calls it a 'Q9550 @ 2.83ghz' no matter what the speed, windows just reports the CPU-ID string and not the actual clock speed it's running at.
 
Oh and, Gigabyte do have an overclocking utility which can be used in Windows but I don't have it installed...
I could use that program instead but i'd much prefer to use BIOS to be honest :(
 
AMDX23800+ said:
It's definitely running at stock speed, I have checked in CPU-Z.

Have do you actually set to Clear CMOS on the board? Never done it before :(
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Check the manual [you can probably download it easily from the mobo manufacturers sight], it should tell you - normally it involves changing the jumper near the battery where it says CLR_RTC or CLEAR_CMOS from 1-2 to 2-3 while the battery and power are disconnected, but check the manual in case it has any specifics about it - some mobos have a button for it rather than jumpers, etc etc.
 
Right I didn't want to fiddle with the manual CMOS reset on the board, so I went into the BIOS, selected 'Load CMOS from BIOS', loaded the default, then loaded optimized settings, then went back into the bios, changed to the overclock, and it now seems to be working!
Thanks for the help
 
Also with the gigabyte boards, make sure you also upgrade the backup bios.

I had the main bios upgraded to F7, but now and then it would decide to boot from the old bios at F2, and cause all sorts of issues.

Kimbie
 
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