New boards - do you need to reset BIOS after failed OC?

[men8ifr]

Just wondering - the biggest pain wit my current board was after a failed OC which would not POST I had to set a fiddly jumper to reset the BIOS and start again - very annoying.

Do you still have to do this on newer boards? - just something to look out for thanks.

 

[95thrifles]

Most decent new boards have a clrcmos switch, often on the I/O panel, but a lot of the newer BIO's dont even need this as they have a safety feature which will revert to last known safe config or default if you do go wrong, Ive only needed my switch once, every other time the safety has kicked in and I havent even needed to use it

 

[reflux]

I've used six different boards in the past year and a half and each one resets your overclock if it fails to POST. It's a godsend tbh; having to reset the CMOS manually is an absolute pain, I agree.

 

[Infernum]

Sometimes BIOS resets itself after failed overclock if you power off the PC fully. then turn on again, instead of restarting

 

[5abr3]

In some cases the BIOS doesn't always see a bad overclock as such and newer board tend to have a switch to clear the CMOS rather than faffing around with jumpers, I have only had to clear mine once, every other bad overclock has been detected and corrected on reboot

 

[Corasik]

Sometimes depends on how bad the overclock went, its still possible for a PC corrupt the cmos so badly that the only solution is the jumper. But that said 99/100 times most modern motherboards will have some kinda recovery, be it a 3 fails before auto reset, or a power off for 5 minutes return to default reset.

I think my current board tries to start up 2 times, and if both fails, it returns to bios defaults.

So most if not all boards will still have a clr cmos jumper, but its normally not needed. One cool feature some boards have is dual flash, so if you get a power cut while flashing a new bios download, you can flip to the backup flash chip, boot up, and restore the failed update