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Limp Gawd
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This is my first post. I got gigabyte ds3, E6300, and Patriot pc5300.
Initially I could not overclock over 2.5GHZ. after nights of reading here and elsewhere, I was able to overclock to 3.150 GHZ but unstable. 3GHZ is more stable with Prime95.

then I did not satisfy and want to try my ego. I continued to overclock with 450 FSB using BIOS F5. Suddently, no matter what FSB I changed to, the DS3 always used stock FSB (266). before if my setting is too much, the DS3 just reset FSB to default (disable). now it did not reset anything and post with default FSB (266).

I tried so many things: clear CMOS using jumper, flash to old and new BIOS. nothing worked. I get into window with default FSB (266) or 1.8GHZ.

if I fried the DS3, then it should not have worked at all. but it is working. it is just that it won't take my FSB changes. is the CMOS corrupted? I search very where but no luck.

please help me. I am tired after staying up all night playing with my new rig. now there is nothing I can do. Can I return it to newegg? it is less than 2 weeks.

thanks alot.
 
Please give people a chance to respond before bumping your thread. This ain't a chatroom and responses are not always instant.
 
a half hour isn't very long to wait for a reply.. ;) edit: snap, lethal beat me.

and you said you cleared the bios.. did you load optimized defaults? can you run just 267mhz fsb?
 
I fixed it guys. I think that I did not clear CMOS correctly. Initially, I just put in a jumper and took it out after a few second.

out of frustration, I tried again and again. well, I unplug the power, put in the jumper for more than a minute. then plug in and left the jumper in for another minute. BAM, it works again. I almost hate Gigabyte for an unpredictale behavior.

I could not find anywhere in the manual that show how to clear CMOS using jumper. I did it based on my past experience with ABIT board. the mannual just shows how to clear using the battery but it did not explan how to remove the battery. I don't want to break the thing.

thanks anyway.
 
the question I have now what have caused it to not take any FSB changes?

is it because I use EasyTool? and it messed up? I just played around with Easytool. I like BIOS better.

or it it becuase I played around with BIOS setting too much and it corrupted?


one thing I noticed is that the heat sink on the INTEL p965 chip is VERY HOT to touch. it is safe? my voltage is only 1.375 or less. and the cpu temperature is around 45degree C on prime95. should I cool it down? how? or just ignore it?

thanks,
 
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