Hi, am new to the forums and am desperate for some advice about this issue I am having with my X48 which has now driven me to my wits end.
The specs of my machine are as follows:
X48T-DQ6
Q9450
850W PSU (silverstone strider)
Nvidia GTX 280
2 gigs Corsair XMS 3 DHX
500 gig Seagate 7200 RPM *(32M cache)
Win XP SP3
I built this rig in June this year, and decided on the X48T specifically because of its extensive overclocking features (which of course attracts a premium in terms of pricing).
I left everything at stock as I wanted to be sure that the system was completely stable before I attempted an overclocking run.
Fast forward 6 months later, everything is chugging along fine and I just happen to have enough time today to start tweaking the bios and doing some synthetic benchmarks.
I updated to the latest F5 bios using the @Bios utility. I have only just seen a thread here stating that there are problems with that software, but in any event the bios updated fine with no apparent problems.
Now the issue I am experiencing is as follows....the bios will not save any overclocking settings in the M.I.T. submenu. This is irrespective of however small or large the overclock is. When I exit the bios, the machine reboots and posts the Gigabyte splash screen. It then however restarts again two seconds later with the M.I.T. bios settings back to default. As stated before, this will happen even with 1 MHZ increase in the FSB.
I combed the internet in an attempt to ascertain whether other individuals have experienced the issue. So far I have only come across the following few isolated reports, but with no solution provided:
Gigabyte X48-DES5 BIOS F7 (Downclock) - Overclockers Forums
XtremeSystems Forums - View Single Post - Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R (P45 Express) first impression
Can`t Overclock My Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Intel X48 - XtremeSystems Forums
[SOLVED] Bios reseting fsb clock oc - Tech Support Forum
Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 wont OC Q6600 - [H]ard|Forum
In case you are wondering, those are my posts at the end of the hardforum thread.
I initially acted on the advice of the techsupportforum thread which suggested there was some sort of bug with the board fan headers. I unplugged all my fans from the headers, and lo and behold the bios begins to save all my overclock settings in M.I.T.
So far so good, I get to work tweaking and testing the limits of the FSB, CPU and memory. I settle on an FSB which gives me an overclock of 3.56 ghz on the CPU. At this stage I was not interested in doing extensive stress testing and instead decided to see whether it would cope with run of the mill gaming.
My machine of course hard locked, but for some mysterious reason this reintroduced the same bios bug which prevented overclocked settings from being saved in M.I.T. Playing with the fan headers didn't resolve the issue a second time, so I decided to take the more drastic step of swapping the RAM into different slots. For me this is a huge pain in the ass as it requires me to remove the GTX 280 in order to access the the plastic arms which hold the memory in place.
Mysteriously this again resolves the bios bug. I then attempt another overclocking run only to have the machine hard lock again during gaming, which reintroduces the bios bug. The issue is again alleviated by swapping the ram back into their original slots!
I personally have never come across an issue like this before when overclocking, but as you may appreciate it is incredibly frustrating. Having to pull my machine apart on a regular basis to be able to overclock is just not feasible, especially considering how much money I paid for this board's overclocking features.
Would appreciate any help or advice people are able to offer.
Thanks in advance.
The specs of my machine are as follows:
X48T-DQ6
Q9450
850W PSU (silverstone strider)
Nvidia GTX 280
2 gigs Corsair XMS 3 DHX
500 gig Seagate 7200 RPM *(32M cache)
Win XP SP3
I built this rig in June this year, and decided on the X48T specifically because of its extensive overclocking features (which of course attracts a premium in terms of pricing).
I left everything at stock as I wanted to be sure that the system was completely stable before I attempted an overclocking run.
Fast forward 6 months later, everything is chugging along fine and I just happen to have enough time today to start tweaking the bios and doing some synthetic benchmarks.
I updated to the latest F5 bios using the @Bios utility. I have only just seen a thread here stating that there are problems with that software, but in any event the bios updated fine with no apparent problems.
Now the issue I am experiencing is as follows....the bios will not save any overclocking settings in the M.I.T. submenu. This is irrespective of however small or large the overclock is. When I exit the bios, the machine reboots and posts the Gigabyte splash screen. It then however restarts again two seconds later with the M.I.T. bios settings back to default. As stated before, this will happen even with 1 MHZ increase in the FSB.
I combed the internet in an attempt to ascertain whether other individuals have experienced the issue. So far I have only come across the following few isolated reports, but with no solution provided:
Gigabyte X48-DES5 BIOS F7 (Downclock) - Overclockers Forums
XtremeSystems Forums - View Single Post - Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R (P45 Express) first impression
Can`t Overclock My Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Intel X48 - XtremeSystems Forums
[SOLVED] Bios reseting fsb clock oc - Tech Support Forum
Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 wont OC Q6600 - [H]ard|Forum
In case you are wondering, those are my posts at the end of the hardforum thread.
I initially acted on the advice of the techsupportforum thread which suggested there was some sort of bug with the board fan headers. I unplugged all my fans from the headers, and lo and behold the bios begins to save all my overclock settings in M.I.T.
So far so good, I get to work tweaking and testing the limits of the FSB, CPU and memory. I settle on an FSB which gives me an overclock of 3.56 ghz on the CPU. At this stage I was not interested in doing extensive stress testing and instead decided to see whether it would cope with run of the mill gaming.
My machine of course hard locked, but for some mysterious reason this reintroduced the same bios bug which prevented overclocked settings from being saved in M.I.T. Playing with the fan headers didn't resolve the issue a second time, so I decided to take the more drastic step of swapping the RAM into different slots. For me this is a huge pain in the ass as it requires me to remove the GTX 280 in order to access the the plastic arms which hold the memory in place.
Mysteriously this again resolves the bios bug. I then attempt another overclocking run only to have the machine hard lock again during gaming, which reintroduces the bios bug. The issue is again alleviated by swapping the ram back into their original slots!
I personally have never come across an issue like this before when overclocking, but as you may appreciate it is incredibly frustrating. Having to pull my machine apart on a regular basis to be able to overclock is just not feasible, especially considering how much money I paid for this board's overclocking features.
Would appreciate any help or advice people are able to offer.
Thanks in advance.
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