Pre Overclocking Bios issue

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Hi folks, brought this up with OC technical support and they pointed me to the forums as someone in here is the wiz kid on overclocking.

I bought and built my first scratch build last week (Radon Intel Core i5 760 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-023-OB&tool=3 )
and set the oc profile in play on Saturday. Everything was fine and the machine and me were both happy (temps were all fine and so on).

Installed a couple of games and some patches on monday and come mid day when booting up I got something about corrupted bios come up and the machine then seemed to dump off the oc bios and revert back to a default safe version.

Now, the gigabyte board comes with a dual bios system and oc tech support tells me that the only time the machine will revert back to these bios is when someone's tried updating the bios and it's somehow corrupted the originals.
Problem with this is I not only didn't do it, I'd have no idea how to do it and frankly as it was working fine on sat and sun, I'd have no reason to do it.

Anyhow, can anyone out there tell me how to re set to the overclock that comes with this board (bearing in mind I really am technically a dunce - it was why I went for pre overclocked rather than a DIY approach)

Bear in mind too that the original page where the oc profile was is no longer there, so it's not just a matter of reloading a preset profile - that I could have managed.

Many thanks for any help

 

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Welcome to the forums

First question that comes to mind is

Did you flash the BIOS to a newer version at all since building the rig?
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IF NOT tech support should be able to send you a OC profile and talk you through applying this profile.

IF you did update/flash the BIOS the OC profile provided by OCUK will have been deleted, which I think is what the tech is saying

 

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Honest to god I've no idea how to flash the bios, and certainly had no reason to - it was working fine so I had everything I wanted.

The only thing I did in the bios that I'd not been told to (which was recommended by a mate with more pc tech than me) was use one of the empty slots to create a back up of the non oc profile - the base one that was running prior to the oc profile being loaded. I think the bios comes with something like the ability to make 5 profiles, oc was the top one, there was a default and I made a third. Something like that.

According to the manual the gigabyte m/b comes with a dual bios system which, again as I understand it, means if the main one fails it falls to the back up one which I think is what is currently showing up. It's not like just the oc profile is missing - the only profile that's showing up is "default", so both mine and the oc one are gone. It's like I'm on a completely different page.

(Cheers for the welcome incidentally - lot on my mind )

I have to admit, when I contacted tech I kind of assumed they'd have a link to a download of the profile that I could just load in and put it to rights again. I'd not expected any issue with it. The tech (I'm afraid I didn't catch his name - my bad) implied that the forum would have better/easier access to the oc profile used and how to reapply it.

 

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I should clarify that the system is running fine without the overclock......darn, well it was yesterday. Today it hung during boot and then failed to repair the start up sequence. (the second time though it booted fine - so now I've no idea what the heck is going on)

Also, as it's my first build I'd prefer not have to RMA the board....damnit I got it all into the case and working or so I thought....I really don't want to unplug it all again.

Then again, if the bios is corrupt is this a signifier that the board's got a serious fault?