When your bios does not show advanced info.. (1 Viewer)

[Brett DiMichele]

Hey folks...

Back to the Over Clocking subject yet one more time. By now

We know that I am running the Intel D845BG MoBo with an Intel

Express Bios. I recently flashed the Bios to Intel Version

PT84510A.86A.0021.P03 and feature wise there are no new

Options in the Bios Menus.

I know that Intel takes the position of Anti-Over Clocking in lieu of

Offering a more “stable” platform. I am a car nut and the whole over

Clock is like Nitrous Oxide to me. It’s available and it’s cheap (or in

This case free) and it’s driving me nuts not being able to do it.

I cannot even see my Bus Speed or AGP Multiplier in the Bios. Half of

The advanced features seem to be grayed out. I wonder what would be

Required for me to make these options available if they are available at

All……….

Any ideas?

 

[Masood Ali]

All I can tell you is that from my experiences with Intel motherboards in the past, there was no way to get them overclocked without the use of an outside device (if that option was available).

 

[Brett DiMichele]

Masood,
I am comming to the same conclusion. I downloaded and printed
the full 130 page documentation for the MoBo (at work on a
Laser Printer of course!) and I read through it and to access
the advanced bios functions you must switch the MoBo Bios
Jumper into config mode. But no where in the documentation
does it say this will display multipliers!
Argh!

 

[Patrick Sun]

Yet another reason to buy Asus MBs.

 

[Brett DiMichele]

Patrick,
I had an ASUS in my last PC and it was a great MoBo.. Lasted
me 7 years till the bios died (and even then it was just
a matter of $20.00 for a new Award PNP chip) but it wasn't
worth spending another $20.00 on IMHO (P5 Pentium 133Mhz)
But still, even though Intel doesn't want you messing with
Multipliers this is one hell of a QUALITY MoBo.. It has some
very good features and rock solid stability (which is why
it's the MoBo that Micron uses)
Hey MoBo's are fairly cheap... I may just pick up a Soyo
Dragon just to piss with