Locked BIOS?

bone'ed · 5 Jan 2008 at 11:13

Hi all,
Have been trawling the net looking for info on how to OC my machine,
PB iPower X8620, and have just read on the PB Forum that all their Motherboards are 'LOCKED'

Is this true? Can they lock the board/BIOS?

Please help, if it is then it means a new motherboard

bone'ed · 5 Jan 2008 at 12:54

Does this mean i need a new motherboard if i want to overclock from it?

bone'ed · 5 Jan 2008 at 14:58

Is it worth a try?

Has anybody successfully unlocked a board before?

bone'ed · 5 Jan 2008 at 17:20

Just downloaded and tried a 'coarse' tune up with nTune but knackered my PC up because as iv'e just discovered it doesn't support Quad core CPUs

bone'ed · 5 Jan 2008 at 17:40

I'm pretty new to this game, but the screen went blue with a load of text about safe mode etc, so i restarted the machine, it hung on reboot and the HD was still doing something but it sounded like it was in a loop?!

Restarted it again and booted up in Safe Mode ok, so i went for a repair to last good state and it appears to have worked

Looking for a new board now,

This PC is only 2 weeks old and iv'e spent about 1500.00 on it so far and still cant overclock