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    HP ENVY 14 Beats Edition 2000-cto, advanced bios menu?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jonny4, Nov 18, 2011.

  1. jonny4

    jonny4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just trying to figure out how to get into the advanced bios because for some reason My 1600mhz memory is clocking in at 800mhz, at least speccy says it is. I know on my old HP TM2t it was f10 and a or q but that doesn't seem to work on this guy.
     
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    yknyong1 Radiance with Radeon

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    DDR is double data rate. So when you see 800, it is actually operating at 1600MHz.
     
    yknyong1, Nov 18, 2011
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    akshysh Newbie

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    That does not work. I flashed the modded bios to access the advanced menu.
    My envy was semi-bricked.
    Its not worth a try unless someone figures out a way to get past the RSA signed bios'
     
    akshysh, Nov 18, 2011
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  4. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    you can't really flash modded envy bioses.

    you can try the bios key + A back and forth really quick as the computer boots to access the advanced bios.


    well if it's the same as the cto 1xxx (so f10 then a, back and forth rapidly)
     
    MagusDraco, Nov 18, 2011
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  5. jonny4

    jonny4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know ddr3 is double data rate but I have never seen my desktop with 16gb of ddr3 1600 say 800mhz with speccy, nor have any of my other computers. I would not have asked unless I thought there is something wrong, now if for some reason the crappy bios in these pc's reports 800mhz to speccy instead 1600mhz than fine I can live with that. I have tried the methods listed above and I still can't access the advanced menu, thank you.
     
    jonny4, Nov 19, 2011
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    wetwillycf Notebook Consultant

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    DDR means that it works on the tick and on the tock or rise and fall of the clock pulse of the system. that means that though it works at 800 MHz, it sends and receives data twice as fast, hence the 1600 spec.
     
    wetwillycf, Nov 19, 2011
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