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Hello,

posted this is another section, but need help with the oc....
here is the thread:

viewtopic.php?f=36&t=109715&p=1124446#p1124446

any help would be appreciated

I ran into this exact problem and it was fixed thanks to the help from guys in the free clinic. Is there a beep at all? Will it still not post?

One of the guys in the other thread you link to already recommended what I was going to- and that's to flash the bios on the board. Problem is, you have to get it to boot up somehow first so that you can flash it. I was lucky when I had my problem I had an older processor I could plug in and go through it... but you may not have that priviledge.

It could be something else- but it's EXACTLY what just happened to me and flashing the bios worked. The other potential problem is screwing up the whole SATA HDD thing. A lot of people think SATA is data AND power- it's not. So make sure it's power is connected as well.

Let us know what happens!


eno

yeah i got it running and, it was a small piece of tape in the main power connector,
problem now is that i tried the oc from the article, but i just get a error and the pc will not boot, hoping someone can provide a better step by step guide....

thanks

Well, let's avoid the magazine's advice and start from scratch. It's too hard to fix bad OC's rather than start over and walk you up the correct way. I haven't read that article, but I'm assuming your memory is at 1600 speeds and walking up the clocks also walked MemFreq up and putting it out of range.

Start with no OC profile enabled, 1333 memory frequency, stock CPU speeds, and we can go from there.

Here it is straight from the pages I would also like to note that it is better sometimes to take baby steps when it comes to OC'ing not all CPUs are exactly the same. you may not get 4Ghz out of your chip.

yeah i read that....
i was hoping for more of a step by step like
1 open bios
2 go XXX setting
3 hit enter, select XXX
4 go to XXX select

i tried to go by what they had written but i could not find some of the things and others were what i thought were what they had written as the numbers matched but not the name. I thought i had everything, but found it was very confusing and jumped all over the place in the bios.

this is a buddies pc so i do not want to fry the thing and i am by no means experienced in oc'ing.

i know if it was easy everyone would do it, but when i read that they had it stable at 4 ghz i thought i would give it a try.

thanks

I've always had success with MPCs guides, but often enough I needed to do some research in what I was actually doing before I understood how to do it and moreover why I was doing it.

And, before I say much more- judging by your uncertainty... I hope you're prepared to buy your buddy a new board and processor before you go in there dorking around too much. Do yourself a favour and pay close attention to this article:


(refer to the below post. Feel like I was breakin' the rules.)

I was studying the Gulftown one for my own purposes and found it really helpfull. I looked over the Lynnfield one too and it's a similar format. It takes you through the basics, and some specifics of what settings you're changing and why... and how. Step by step. No sense reinventing the wheel here... it's a good guide.

Let us know where you end up after that.


Eno

I was going to post the old sticky for this section, but sadly it's still not whole as far as a tutorial goes. We can do a step by step instead of sending you away from MPC, no problems. We've been overclocking before those other sites' owners got out of Pampers!

Let's start with the basic info of what we're working with:
• Motherboard (+ Bios version)
• CPU (CPUz Screen shot would be nice, but not needed)
• Memory (P/N is optional, but again nice to know)

Also get some basic info tools and benchmarks. We'll both want to share screen shots of information since getting BIOS shots can be iffy. Also, a basic benchmark can be a quick way to know if you're making improvements in performance or if it's starting to net only small gains. At some point, an OC just starts to level off as far as performance goes and going any further shows minimal gains while needlessly stressing hardware.

I also like benchmarks that matter to me; not what other's feel are important. On one computer, I may want to focus on Cinebench to watch rendering ability while noting SuperPi times. While on another machine, I may only at SysMark and a stopwatch. For games, I also like benching for specific games I will actually play a lot. I've played Crysis for about 1hr total, so that bench tells me very little now days.

(Where I find the games I play should be above 35fps, I seldom OC video cards as nothing actually improves. However, OC'ing for applications rewards me with actual quicker times to do stuff. Just my viewpoint. So what's important for you and what do you want to improve?)

I do have to say those figures seem about right, but obviously they didn't stick...and shouldn't. You may wonder why they lowered the multiplier one notch, right? That's why "Baby Steps" as Wiked_smart has stated has been a great mantra of OC'ing in MPC/Forums (hey, I was watching "What about Bob" and it just felt logical to translate it's theme for overclocking!). Punching in any numbers we have gotten to successfully may not work for any random reader running through here, so walking up to your own settings is the best. Just too many variables to say all hardware, even built with the exact same parts, can do the same thing. If there's .1% variance in parts binning, then as all the parts are tossed together you can easily end up with 1.0% variance...so one errant setting could be a bit too aggressive or loose and just not work. I relate it to an engine: I can take one apart, put it right back together, and gain a few horsepower/lbs of torque due to more strict tolerances. Same with OC'ing.

So let's get to it, shall we?