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Flashing your bios without recording old settings...

Scougar

Scougar

Scougar

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That moment in time when it is late at night and you flash your bios impatiently without recording the old overclock settings and tweaks you made in the bios.

Dang it. Now I have to spend hours putting it back lol.
 
I can't even remember what a stable voltage is etc. At the time I was thinking, whatever... I will just redo it. And ignoring all those details like, how you get the xmp profile to with without crashing... How you get it to not throttle down. All the little but important stuff.
 
I have bought an updated bios online before for my Acer L3600 so I could use a faster CPU, and as it was my main machine that I was using to look for jobs at the time, I just opted to buy the bios.

Anyway... so at present I am back at 4.3Ghz, and I thought it was stable, but sitting on the desktop it will randomly freeze the PC, no warning. It used to do this ages ago when I was trying for 4.4 and 4.5 but I can't remember what setting I changed. Great. Silly me for not recording the settings.

That's the daft thing about this chip, it crashes when not stressed :(

I wish there were some clues as to what went wrong. (I am seeing a LOT of errors in the event viewer. I might just opt for a clean windows install).

Update: Well.. I seem to be back to where I started at 4.3, which is good. I also did a full win10 reinstall, so that is good.
 
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