Giga-byte EZ Tune/Bios o/c problem - Intel

Redstone · Apr 21, 2003, 03:09 PM

Here is a EZ Tune or bios mystery I cannot figure out.

I just got a Giga-byte 8SQ800 Ultra with the F5 bios and DDR400 MEM.
I had been using the bios for about a week to set the CPU speed just fine, but decided to load EZ tune and give it a try. The strangest thing happened.

Now (In the bios) if I set the CPU to any speed besides 133 it boots up underclocked by 1 Mhz. With my 2.53 CPU, I set it to 160 and the memory to 400. But it boots to 159Mhz and the memory to 398. I Uninstalled EZ Tune and the problem hasn’t gone away. Tried 150Mhz and it booted to 149. Reinstalled EZ Tune. I cannot change the set up to have both 150/400 within the program. Strange.

Anyone ever hear of that before?
Reflashe the bios?

Qba73 · Apr 23, 2003, 09:12 AM

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Originally posted by Redstone
Here is a EZ Tune or bios mystery I cannot figure out.

I just got a Giga-byte 8SQ800 Ultra with the F5 bios and DDR400 MEM.
I had been using the bios for about a week to set the CPU speed just fine, but decided to load EZ tune and give it a try. The strangest thing happened.

Now (In the bios) if I set the CPU to any speed besides 133 it boots up underclocked by 1 Mhz. With my 2.53 CPU, I set it to 160 and the memory to 400. But it boots to 159Mhz and the memory to 398. I Uninstalled EZ Tune and the problem hasn’t gone away. Tried 150Mhz and it booted to 149. Reinstalled EZ Tune. I cannot change the set up to have both 150/400 within the program. Strange.

Anyone ever hear of that before?
Reflashe the bios?

i dont use eztune (never trust a windows based overclocking utlity) however i have the same problem, i set 186 fsb and when it posts it shows 185, havent been able to figure it out, however in windows my speed is conncurrent as if i had it set to 186, weird. i have a sinxp1394 which is pretty much your board.

Redstone · Apr 23, 2003, 02:03 PM

I got a response from Giga-byte and they just suggested loading the optimized settings in the bios. Completely lame answer. I tried it anyway and it fix anything.

Even stranger, I let ez-tune clock my system to 160x19 and 400memory, then reload and it booted to those specs. Then went back down to 150x19 in the bios... it booted to 149x19 again. Since this all started after I loaded Ez-tune, that program has to be effecting the overclock.
So I let ez-tune clock it again and i am running at 160x19 3040mhz at each boot. 32c idle and stable so far.

Still bugs the sh@t out of me, not being able figure out whats going on.

Qba73 · Apr 23, 2003, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Redstone
I got a response from Giga-byte and they just suggested loading the optimized settings in the bios. Completely lame answer. I tried it anyway and it fix anything.

Even stranger, I let ez-tune clock my system to 160x19 and 400memory, then reload and it booted to those specs. Then went back down to 150x19 in the bios... it booted to 149x19 again. Since this all started after I loaded Ez-tune, that program has to be effecting the overclock.
So I let ez-tune clock it again and i am running at 160x19 3040mhz at each boot. 32c idle and stable so far.

Still bugs the sh@t out of me, not being able figure out whats going on.

Drop eazytune, and try the 1:1 ratio to get a higher overclock (1:1 is the first memory timing option in the list in the bios) thats what got me past my 169 limit with this chip. i Had a 2.53 and i traded it for the 2.4b cause it was a better overclocker. the highest i could hit was 152 with the 2.53.

Redstone · Apr 24, 2003, 01:59 PM

Could you be more specific in steering me to the bios adjustment?
Which bios section is it under?
Which field do you open?
What exactly does the 1:1 setting look like?

I see there is a choice under the memory for:
Auto
Manual
100Mhz
133Mhz

Am I in the right place? If so which one is 1:1?

Thanks