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    A09 Bios Alienware 14 -unlock bios anyone?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by viktor89, Jul 17, 2016.

  1. viktor89

    viktor89 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I try to enable overclocking in Bios under performance and it keeps disabling it. However Intel XTU still lets me overclock upto a certain extent.

    I'm wondering if we could somehow make the Bios overclock "enabled" feature stick-it'll somehow make XTU work better?

    It keeps getting disabled. Anyone has a link to unlocked A09 bios ?
     
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    viktor89 Notebook Enthusiast

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    btw I got my Alienware to run on 102 mhz stock is 100 mhz - so from 2.4 ghz to 2.448ghz
    Undervolt is -65m
    Multiplier is 36, 35,34,34
    I have gotten it to work on 102.5mhz as well and run undervolt at -70mv and ran two 15 min stress test in XTU and temp stayed below 80 C

    Played Skyrim at highest possible setting and temp stayed below 75
    Also I had the highest score in XTU submission lol
    Then Skyrim froze and computer restarted -so I backed off and now I'm at above settings. So far all is well.

    I don't understand -how are we able to overclock when BIOS has overclocking disabled ?
     
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    viktor89 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh it's 4700mq stock cooler and what not.

    SSD 960GB Sandisk

    16GB RAM

    765m


    Score was 762 on XTU highest for anyone with my settings and cpu/mobo combo
     
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    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

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    Dell use secure flash on all 2013/14 AW models. You can't use/find a unlocked bios for those models. Try Throttlestop. You find it in this forum. A better choice than XTU.
     
    Papusan, Jul 18, 2016
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    viktor89 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok no wonder.

    I was going crazy on Google trying to look it up.

    I can understand XTU that's why I was using it.

    What's good about Throttlestop? why do you think it's better? not putting you down just want to know.
     
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    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

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    You can put 4 Oc profiles on the fly, increasing multi up or down, voltage adjustment, power settings, monitoring of clock, wattage + TS doesn't stealing processing cycles like XTU... + much more. Ask @unclewebb and other brothers for help in the Throttlestop guide in this forum. XTU is a Bloatware in comparison.
     
    Papusan, Jul 18, 2016
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