Pre-Boot auto bios safe mode?

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I have a gigabyte ga-73vm-s2 and when i try and oc it it says something about safe mode and halts before booting and suggests to change settings, why does it do that and how can i change/fix this?

edit: it allows me to boot anyways but doesnt show that anything is changed in cpuz.
 
Boards with some kind of overclocking protection feature may offer to restore default settings if your overclock failed - did the system shut down abnormally or fail to turn on until you tried a couple of times?
 
nope not that i know of it might have took a little longer show the bios screen.
 
no it booted but it didnt use any of the changed settings according to cpuz, any ideas?
 
Can anyone help me, Is there a way to bypass the revert to defualt and just have it do a no post or something. Also can someone explain what is happening or why it does the bios safe mode thing.
 
Your BIOS behavior is both normal and desirable. The BIOS has detected abnormal behavior and forced safe settings. The BIOS in my Biostar board offers this protection as well.

You're going to have to isolate the actual problem, such as:
- Vcore too low for faster operation.
- Vram too low for faster operation.
- Vram timing settings too tight for faster operation.

Google the overclocking guides for how to isolate CPU speed from memory speed while overclocking. Understand that when you increase FSB, you also increase other bus speeds. Understand that higher CPU and memory speeds may require increasing Vcore and Vram.

Generally, you isolate potential memory problems while overclocking CPU by lowering memory speed by memory divider. Similarly, you isolate potential CPU problems while overclcoking memory by lowering CPU multiplier.

Read the quides.

Hope this helps!
 
I have read many guides, so you are saying that if it goes into safe mode then i need to change seetings around until it doesnt go into safe mode?
 
Here is a guide that explains the isolation method of overclocking: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=1497607&enterthread=y

If your BIOS doesn't allow changing either memory timing or memory voltage, then you leave the timings on Auto (as if you have a choice) and look for Memory Ratio adjustment to control memory speed. Without adjustment for Vram, you're going to be forced to use lower memory frequency as you raise CPU speed - because that's the only memory variable to you - to keep your memory within stable operating limits.

Hope this helps!
 
i also have an unlink setting that allows me to set seperate values of whatever i want for the cpu fsb and the ram fsb would this be helpful?
 
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