DS3P Problem

[Billy 2 Sips]

Hey all,

I built a pc for my friend the other day with these specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6420
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

Now he'd never done overclocking before so I said I'd do it for him. I read up on it, updated the bios, and followed the settings that are given in the ds3 thread in the motherboard forum.

Everything went ok and when I reached 3ghz he said he was happy with that so I began testing for stabilty. I ran orthos for a few hours and had no problems and temps were fine.

But for some reason after I rebooted the settings reset themselves. It didn't change the voltage settings. But the memory settings went back to auto and cpu clock control settings were disabled.

Now if I change any of them settings it just boots as far as the gigabyte screen then restarts and resets them again. I've tried lowering the cpu multiplier and setting the PCI Express Frequency at 102 and upping the PCI-E OverVoltage Control by +0.1v, and obviously lowering the fsb etc. But nothing seems to work no matter what settings I choose if I change the memory or fsb settings it just resets them before it even boots into windows.

I really don't know what else to try or if there is something wrong with the mobo.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

Billy

 

[SooTyLaD]

mine does this, and i've seen it come up all the time since i bought mine...

i really dont know why it does it, or what triggers it, but to get back into the bios wait until it is about to reset (after maybe 3-4 seconds? not too hard to time) and press the reset button...

i think it basically happens when it wants more volts for either the cpu or the ram...

EDIT: heres a perfect example: you might see in another thread i just made that i was trying to push my cpu up to 3.6gig, long story short it required more volts and temps than i was willing to give... so into the bios i go, key in all my trusty tried and tested values for everything... and low and behold...

4 seconds, restart, 4 seconds, restart, 4 seconds... you get the picture...

so despite the fact that i had it 18 hours orthos stable, i put the ram voltage up a wee bit and its booted now... all in all not a very impressive mobo, despite the thousands of recommendations you will read on these forums... you just dont know what the hell its thinking, or whether it will let you boot up your perfectly stable setup - i wish i had a faulty one but its the same old story of if it all works at stock, no RMA

 

[Billy 2 Sips]

Yeh it's very annoying, even if I underclock the cpu it still does the same thing. It just won't let me boot into windows with the cpu control clock enabled. I've tried going back to the f4 bios but that didn't help either.

I feel bad also cos I recommended this spec to my friend and now I can't overclock it