Help OCing 680i

[silentinjection]

Hello all, I read the overclocking guide and have attempted many many times to OC my e6600, but every time I save settings and it reboots, I get a warning that the mobo is now in safe mode, and it resets to default all my clock speeds. It keeps the multiplier and the voltages to what I changed them to, and the ram as well. I looked all throughout the bios and can find no disable function for the "safety measure." Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[Capper]

Please list your full system specs....without them we'd all be guessing at what the problem is, as well as guessing at possible solutions

[silentinjection]

Sorry about that, I don't post much. It should be in my signature now, but I will post here anyways.

EVGA 680i SLI mobo
intel core 2 duo E6600 @ 2.4 (for now)
2 GB DDR2 800 Crucial Balistix memory @ 4-4-4-12
XFX gforce 7800 GTX

[gvblake22]

Make sure you don't have the motherboard's CLR_CMOS jumper set on the wrong pins.

[Panda Man]

Could you also post your voltages, ram speeds and multiplier as well? Perhaps an over-volt is causing the safety to kick in.

[Quakindude]

Originally Posted by silentinjection

Sorry about that, I don't post much. It should be in my signature now, but I will post here anyways.

EVGA 680i SLI mobo
intel core 2 duo E6600 @ 2.4 (for now)
2 GB DDR2 800 Crucial Balistix memory @ 4-4-4-12
XFX gforce 7800 GTX

I have a similar setup. The 680i is a dream to overclock with and I've had my E6600 up to 3.6Ghz on air. That's over volted though, so I don't keep it there.

By far, the best way to over clock is by having the right information first. nVidia has an excellent guide written specifically for our mobo. You can check it out here. I suspect that you are trying to over clock without first unlinking your ram from the CPU. Any how, check out that guide, learn it, understand it and then, over clock it. If you have any questions after going through that guide, let me know.

[silentinjection]

Thanks everyone, i'm gonna tinker with this more tomorrow after class and work, I will let you know if I get it up or if im still stuck.

[silentinjection]

Hey again, I haven't gotten a chance to fiddle around yet, classes have started again, but I was wondering if anyone has had that warning screen before and what it means when it comes up. Thanks.

[Capper]

I've been tinkering with the ECS 680i board for the past two weeks for the review, and haven't encountered that warning yet. I will say I've been pushing this board extremely hard and have a E6600 (2.4GHz) pushed to 3.6GHz at 1.35V....running 24/7 really stable. I've use Corsair, Kingston, Crucial, and OCZ memory, NVIDIA and ATI video cards, and several different power supplies without issue.

I'd recommend clearing the BIOS and starting over from scratch following the guide that Quake linked for the 680i based boards.

[silentinjection]

Hello again, I tried some things. So I have tried leaving the voltages at default and modifying the multiplier to 7x and the fsb to 1400 so its just a very slight oc, and I get a beep and have to restart. I then tried the same thing with the voltages set at 1.587v, 1.5v, 2.3v, and 1.5v from top to bottom. The rest were at auto and my memory was set to 4-4-4-12 and the ratio is 1:1 linked. I have never gotten the comp to boot at a 9x multiplier only 7x has worked, but now not even that is working.I have also disabled the cpu halt state, and the other 3 settings in that menu as suggested by the guide. I am really at a loss here. I reset my bios and tried again, and still nothing will work. Im not even getting to the warning screen I mentioned earlier, I just get the beep on restart.