Well, something's gone wrong - help

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CeePeeBee

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Hi Guys,

As some of you may know from the other threads I've posted in, I've just built a new 3570K system and was overclocking on my P8Z77-V LX2 board.

I managed to get it stable at 4.4Ghz...saved the profile, and reverted back to stock for the time being. Played a few games last night without issue.

Today, my new desk arrived so I set that up and moved things around. When I plugged things back in everything booted first time without incident etc, however I've just been fiddling around again and AI Suite firstly decided to give me errors, so I uninstalled it. Rebooted and all was fine.

Booted into BIOS to change my OC profile back to 4.4Ghz, and into Windows I went. CPU Z told me I was still at 3.4Ghz with 34 multipler...strange

Booted into Bios and it cleared all my OC profiles and now no matter the settings I put in the multiplier doesn't bloody change!

What's going on - any ideas anyone?
 
Do you have Speed Step enabled and were you stressing the CPU out with something when looking in CPUz?

Also, did you press enter after altering the multi in BIOS? :D
 
Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

I've hit enter in the multiplier and at the top of the Bios it's showing that the target is 4.4.

Speedster is disabled (according to the bios). Using the latest bios which I flashed when I got the machine, however it's only now that I am seeing issues....it was fine until I unplugged everything and moved it across the room, all 4feet !!

Any other ideas?
 
just reflash the same bios again,then re enter your oc settings,sometimes it messes up esp if its crashed ect it just wont save your bios settings
 
I did that...no go. Plus when I was in Windows I was getting errors in AI suite...completely uninstalled that and now resetting bios (battery out, and jumpers cleared).

Gong to give it a minute or two and then boot back up.

The annoying thing was I wasn't using the sodding Overclock until I thought about it today.

I worried its a corrupt bios....I can set the OC and it tells me that it's going t be a particular multiplier etc but then doesn't seem to save it through to so boot.....then restart into the bios again and it shows what I'd expect...weird.

Turned off speedstep to make sure it wasn't me!!
 
no you said in ai? if in bios you need to clear cmos for longer than 30mins(leave battery out) or reflash bios or both
 
Issues in AI is one thing but the other posts show I have issues in bios pal.

I just took the battery out with the power disconnected know 10minutes...really need 30mins?
 
Well give that a go..just going to flash the bios again and reset to defaults....other people seemingly had that after flashing bios too according to google....hmm
 
I'm mystified, I really am.

These are the settings in the BIOS:

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and

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and this is what Windows sees both idle and under load....just to test.

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and

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Thoughts anyone?

I'm going to power down and leave the CMOS battery out for 30mins....but seriously...wtf?

It was working fine yesterday by the way. I had flashed a few days ago, but yesterday was fine....then today, I move my machine 4 foot and bang....this happens.

I've flashed to latest bios now too.
 
Looks like the turbo boost thing is enabled, its likely they are all set to 34x, try either disabling turbo or set it to a higher multiplier.

Edit: As I noticed with X79 you can have the MP set to whatever but if the turbo MP is set to say a max of 38x on all cores, under stress it will only go to 38x even if the MP is set to higher.

Disable turbo and try again, see if it helps.
 
you should leave all the turbo cores on auto and just raise the cpu multiplier to 44x

works fine that way on an asus z68 and gigabyte z77 board

another thing to try is enable all power saving and use offset cpu voltage,try high llc and +0.010v offset then see how much cpu v is being used at load and adjust offset if needed to raise/lower load cpu v
 
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Guys,

You're missing the point. This was working yesterday. And showing in Windows...what on earth could have happened to to it.

I'll try disabling Turbo (however this was enabled when it OC'ed ) previously although I can't check as the OC profiles have been deleted too ;)

Windows works fine so a) that's good b) this is just bugging me!!
 
It happens if an oc fails or you flash the BIOS,it resets it to default or last known settings

Set turbo ratio back to auto and set CPU multi to 44x,it'll work right then
 
Right, I made the changes by leaving the Turbo ratio on Auto and changing the CPU Config ratio to 44 - still showing 3400Mhz in RealTemp and CPU Z.

W..T..F.
 
wazza300 said:
Still showing stick with auto turbo and 44x CPU multi?
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Well, I think I will be able to hold my head up for the shame at some point...I haven't tried it yet (eating) but I found a post on another forum showing real temp and its 'disable turbo' setting...I switched to Real Temp from Core Temp after I setup my OC......I'm thinking that's the thing.

Apparently the setting exists for Laptop users to stop overheating.

Jesus h Christ!!
 
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