OCZ/Rebrands/M17 Overclocking Guide - CPU & GPU

Alright, flashed bios, it prompted me to hit any button to restart computer in which i did just that. Then it powers itself off i had to manually turn the comp back on because it didnt fo it itself. Questionable but i said w/e, like E said it bios cycled a couple times...now to where im at the moment. The screen is black with a prompting or blinking line on the top left screen. And thats it, how long am i suppose to be on this screen, om afraid to hit any button or even power down. Kinda scaring the out of me right now

 

You shouldn't be on that screen for more than a second or two....

I would power off and cross my fingers and start up again

 

i hate to say this...but you may have just bricked your system...
sounds like you might not have waited long enough or the flash didn't take.
stick in a usb floppy/usb drive/ssd express/ and see if it will read during boot. you will more than likel;y need to try a blind flash.

 

wow, so how do i do that? i followed the directions and told me to hit a button to restart and now i'm at this point? this is ridiculous. how did i not wait long enough? for what? wow.

 

hey, lets not shoot the messenger..

i just know from prior flashing that not all computers flash the same. i have flashed every computer i have ever owned and periodically they just wont flash right. no matter how close you follow the simple instruction....

first things first.... will it boot from any of the listed devices i mentioned earlier?

 

okay i had the usb flash drive i used to do the flashing, its still connected, i restart the comp and bios comes up and back to the black screen. thats it

 

okay i restarted hit f2 and got into bios and i was able to set the prior boot to my usb drive. saved and exited and now i'm back to dos

 

hey!!!
if you can do all that...then just check your bios settings to make sure your booting in ahci mode or raid mode and not standard mode. depending on how your system was setup when you got it. when flashing bios, it sets everything back to default.

edit: in your case..it needs to be set back to raid in the bios.

 

also in bios menu it also said version .027 just like E-wrecked said. so i'm confused, did bios flash correctly or what. i'm thinking about going back to boot my usb flash drive and in dos update kbc and see from there.

 

hold on there speed racer...

1: usually you flash the kbc first.
2: you flash the bios
3: go back in bios and make sure your set back to raid

in your case...go flash the kbc as well.

so far, your fine. it's all working, but it's not reading the drive right is all. so no need to worry right now.

 

omfg it worked...for a sec i didn't understand what u were saying about the mode, then i found that it said raid 0 mode was disabled. then i just simply enabled it and bam...WOW. thank you a bunch john u saved my comp's life. you're the man. +++rep

 

yea its official i'm currently back on the m17 posting this reply atm. phew... that scared the out of me. i started thinking about calling the geek squad from best buy to see what they can do about it. man oh man.

 

no problem. glad i was here to help is all!

 

okay after taking a few rescue breathes i'm back to where i was hoping to be. alright, so E-Wrecked said that the KBC may not update for m17 users? i tried to update KBC anyways and...yes it said that the file or program isn't suitable for my system or someshit like that. i guess all theres left to do is try to OC my cpu and see whats up with that.

 

sounds good. give her a try and report back with good news!

 

hey glad you got it going those were my first thought as well. i asked him if he could still get into the bios and was going to have him check the raid and ahci modes... my wife made me get off the computer to go pick up our daughter though lol.. im glad it worked for you

 

i should have caught on the first time when he said blinking curser.

 

yes, so should I...it is harder to tell when you cannot see what he is seeing, though.

Either way, he's up and back in happy land

 

anybody else having problems with AMD GPU Clock Tool? i got gpu-z and gpu clock tool up and whenever i drop down to bin 6, adjust clock speeds and hit set clock the screen flicks once then the clocks just go down to 297/405 and theres no changes in gpu-z. i've closed and restarted the program but same thing everytime. hmmm...

 

Have u read the OP? Any driver after 8.10 doesn't OC.

 

oh okay, good to know. thx

 

Why isn't this stickied?

 

Cause no mods visit us.. And I'm not worthy

 

you guys already know they aren't about to sticky no "how to crash & burn your 2500-5000 dollar laptop in 6 easy to learn steps" no matter how useful it is...LMAO!

 

Why not? There's stickies on flashing gpus to overclock.. That's much more dangerous

 

i just ran through a bunch and not one of them is stickied with "over clocking" in the title. so maybe if you dropped that part...they might sticky it...lol...heck if i know...you know me..i was being funny

you have a few guides that really need to be stickied, to be honest.

 

eh.. I need more attractive titling.. like, the 8.12 modded driver should be titled, "OCZ/M17 Modded ATI Drivers - Scaling Enabled! Performance Enhanced!" Instead of limiting it to the 8.12 theme.. Eh..not a big deal. I'm just doin my thang. The 7811 BIOS thread shoulda been stickied IMHO

 

I did some searching but couldn't find satisfactory answers...so...

Is is possible to adjust the CPU voltage from within the BIOS for non-extreme CPUs? If it isn't possible to adjust voltage, how is anyone getting any significant overclocks? Is there a lot of headroom in the 45nm mobile chips?

For overclocking (via setFSB) is there any value in SODIMMs rated for 1333 (over 1066) or does the ram just adjust by dividers to stay within its own range?

Is there a thread somewhere for overclocking results?

Thanks

 

OK.. well, you can't adjust voltages whether it's an extreme CPU or not with the BIOS. I'm still trying to figure out how to adjust voltages via Vista - it appears that isn't going to work either. I did find the whitesheet on the x9100 and am considering doing a pinmod to hike the voltage. Just haven't taken the time to tinker with it.

The RAM will handle timings and such, as requested by the MOBO. You could consider adjusting timings on your own, I began toying with MemSet today - Didnt seem to make any difference with artificial benchies - but whatever. Overclocking results vary by computer, but if you look at my sig you'll see what I have accomplished. Also, there's a thread on the OCZ forums comparing DMC4 benchmarks, Crysis Benchmarks, etc. Wish I had the link, but I'm sure it won't be too hard to find.

 

Thanks E-Wrecked, appreciate the information. Your overclock is impressive. There is obviously some headroom in the intel 45nm CPUs. I have a Q6600 that has been running at 3.2 for a while now but not without a lot of tweaking. A 500Mhz increase at no voltage cost (especially from 3-3.5) is great.

 

Have you tried RMClock to change voltages?

 

i always thought that rmclock only used the true voltages of a cpus standard range. meaning if the cpu did .0925 then that is the lowest you could go per manufacture and the same for max voltage. per say...1.250 or what ever the number is for the chip used. even when you unlocked vid mod.

 

AFAIK the development on RMClock has stalled. The original developer is no longer with the project and the new management hasn't released anything in a while. This was my main fid/vid control software for a long time but recent CPUs aren't fully supported. I've actually been hunting for an alternative. I've never known RMClock to be able to raise the voltage above the BIOS value. I always used it to undervolt...

Anyone with CrystalCPUID experience? Will that allow for voltage increase above the stock value?

As an aside, can the Intel thermal monitor be disabled from the bios? TM always caused me grief with voltage issues because it runs in hardware and seems to override any software requests.

 

me and emike talked to the developer of rmclock a few months ago, but nothing came of it. so i dropped it as any type of solution since i don't need to undervolt and it was never a cpu over clocker.

crystalcpuid wont go set above or below intel specs on your cpu

 

yea.. you'll be hard pressed to find any software that can. That's why folks pinmod for voltage, there are 7 pins total which control voltage from the MOBO to the CPU - They also tell the system how much voltage to send max, and minimum. Unless there is an option in the BIOS to control voltage, then software can't request excess. Or..that's what I gather from my research. ;P I'll point you in the right directions if you wanna find out HOW to pinmod the Montevina CPU - Here's intels datasheet which explains BSEL1 and 2 - as well as VCC, VSS, Etc. http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/32012001.pdf

This guide explains some of the basics.. and offers an image of what the socket-p pins do and where they're located on a dual-core CPU
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=154324&page=2

With these 2, that's all you really need to pinmod - That, a piece of copper wire, and maybe a bit more research on google. But, these 2 are the most important pieces of the puzzle.

 

Does this bios version allow overclocking on any m17 cpu(not extreme)?
Also, can the overclock be done in bios (via voltages and multipliers) and not by system software?

 

Only Extreme CPUs are able to be overclocked via BIOS. And aside from undervolting via software nothing else can be done to voltages.

 

dang i was hopin to make my t9400 a x9100

 

well i just used this guide and i hit 14k ....from 12, 519- 14,057.... not bad

 

well now....nice dammn work!

 

Hey guys I just flashed to the new bios and that went well but when I went to flash the kbc k-bat it brought up a screen saying it wasn't the right one and wouldn't let me do anything. Any suggestions?

 

Nevermind, I went back and read some of the posts. Well I got it to 3.325 and got a score of 14802, up from 14004. Very nice Thanks for the BIOS

 

I plan to buy a Q9200 for that notebook, when you tell they have some issues what they are ?

The max stable FSB supported by this board on my Asus G50VT is 300MHz, this will be the same for my M17 ( I have not receive it yet).

If the problem is that the bios dosen't support overclocking with highter coeff (8 too 12.5) This would tell that if I can use SetFSB only I can reach 2.7GHz max .

 

i have seen people bring it up to 2.93 on that cpu.

 

Wish someone can make a Video
& help others on How to Overclock

need step by step instructions
PLEASE

 

Did you even read the first post?

all you do is click 2 buttons


if you can't figure out how to overclock with the first post ... you don't need to over clock

 

How with SetFsb or with highter coeff in the bios ? Because if it with SetFBS this would tell that the FSB is set to 322MHz ... With my Asus G50VT after 300FSB with the same chip PM45 it not prime stable.

 

that asus doesn't have the voltage to break that fsb.

can you take a screen shot of cpu-z and setfsb stocked?

 

Yes will do that tomorrow.But question, when I use SetFSB I lost my wireless connection, don't know why ... you dosen't have this problem with the OCZ ?

Second you canfirme to me that 320MHz for the FSB on the M17 is easy stable ? My ram will be Kingstone Hyper X 5-5-5-15 1.5V 1066MHz, the NB will not be to loaded with 320MHZ of FSB ?

 

it should be stable. i can't confirm that one hundred percent but i know the pm45 can be pushed hard

for you wireless update your drivers and see if it still happens.