Gigabyte P31 - CPU clock problem HELP!

ChrissyT88 · 2 Apr 2008 at 19:44

Hi,

Firstly, hope this is in the right area...

I have just put together a PC for experimenting with (using the Gigabyte P31-ds3l), and up until now, it has been running fine. I have been playing with the clocks (of an E2180)to try and boost performance, and all was well... until tonight.

Earlier, the PC crashed while stress testing, and since then it will not change the clock frequency. I can enter the BIOS and physically alter the FSB (say, set FSB to 210 from 200), but then freezes when i save to CMOS. The PC will then boot, but not save the clock settings. However, it will remeber the multiplier setting... I have tried loading the optimised defaults, but this makes no difference, i still cannot alter the clock speed. This is really irritating, and i dont really know how to fix it - is a BIOS flash in order?? If so, how safe is this?? Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Vicar · 2 Apr 2008 at 20:06

Remove battery from motherboard for at least a minute, this should clear everything, including restting the time and date etc....

ChrissyT88 · 2 Apr 2008 at 20:27

Cheers, thanks for the advice. I couldnt remove the battery (gfx card in the way...), but shorted the contacts next to it (said this was essentially the same in the manual). This seems to have worked fine... thanks very much Vicar!

Vicar · 2 Apr 2008 at 20:41

ChrissyT88 said:
Cheers, thanks for the advice. I couldnt remove the battery (gfx card in the way...), but shorted the contacts next to it (said this was essentially the same in the manual). This seems to have worked fine... thanks very much Vicar!

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