My overclocking settings are saved in my Bios can I reinstall windows with out loosin

[jamieuk23]

Hi I recently bought a PC from a guy on ebay who sold me a overclocked system. He overclocked my E6400 CPU and 7900 GTO and my memroy to much higher speeds and I am pleased with everything.

Now the thing is I need to take out the IDE hard drive he has installed on my PC and swap it with a Sata drive as I can only use 2 IDE devices on my PC motherboard and I really need to use 2 X DVD writers, so the drive has to go.

any way as you will dout guess I am gona have to reinstall windows XP and have to do a fresh install of motherboard and graphics card drivers etc etc..

Now the guy who built my PC for me who I can longer seem to get in touch with said this info in his email.


"The overclocked settings are saved in the BIOS, also the settings are saved as profiles within the BIOS. This means even if default settings are loaded in the BIOS, the OCed settings can be easily re-loaded."

So my main ? is... Will doing a fresh install of windows delete all the overclocking settings he has done for me ??

can you overclock the CPU Graphics and memory all via thw Bios ? as I am just wondering if the graphics card amd memory might of been overclocked via software which no dout I will loose when I reformat

I just dont have the no how to overclock my system if I mess everything up so Just want to no what I am getting my self in 4 b4 I reinstall windows.

As all ways thanks for any advice or help !

 

[Gommsta]

The settings for the CPU and memory overclocking is saved in the BIOS, that means on the actual motherboard itself so you do whatever you want with your drives and it'll keep those settings.

The only one that won't be saved is your graphics card overclock settings as this is done by software in windows.

So in short, you can install your new drive and your computer will be just the same, but you'll need to overclock the 7900GTO yourself. There are some great guides on these forums.

Hope this is of some help.

 

[jamieuk23]

The settings for the CPU and memory overclocking is saved in the BIOS, that means on the actual motherboard itself so you do whatever you want with your drives and it'll keep those settings.

The only one that won't be saved is your graphics card overclock settings as this is done by software in windows.

So in short, you can install your new drive and your computer will be just the same, but you'll need to overclock the 7900GTO yourself. There are some great guides on these forums.

Hope this is of some help.

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Is there no way to save a profile with certain software used for overclocking the graphics card so I can save the settings I have now and burn the saved file on a disk then just load it again when I have done a fresh install ?

what software do you recomend for overclocking my Graphics card ? as I think I will just make a note of what my settings are now and do it my self

 

[Gommsta]

I'm sure you should be able to save a profile to disk yes.
Coolbits is as good as any. Just make a note of the settings and set them yourself, 2 min job

 

[Rroff]

I'd take Gommsta's advice and note down all the settings (GPU core and memory clocks) and all those in the BIOS... as you never know when you might need to refer to them...