[SOLVED] BIOS keeps reverting to unstable overclock on reboot

[Marvin121]

I've recently been experimenting a bit with overclocking to give my aging computer a little more power. I found a stable overclock but now it seems to reload a different unstable overclock at boot, seemingly at random. I have tried loading the optimized defaults, manually setting what I know to be stable overclocks, reseting the motherboard by removing power and the battery but it still just reverts to the same unstable overclock. Anyone know why this might be happening?

AMD FX-8350 4 GHz 8-Core Processor
Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

 

[drea.drechsler]

I've recently been experimenting a bit with overclocking to give my aging computer a little more power. I found a stable overclock but now it seems to reload a different unstable overclock at boot, seemingly at random. I have tried loading the optimized defaults, manually setting what I know to be stable overclocks, reseting the motherboard by removing power and the battery but it still just reverts to the same unstable overclock. Anyone know why this might be happening?

AMD FX-8350 4 GHz 8-Core Processor
Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Are you running any motherboard utilities? Are you running AMD Overdrive? You might try uninstalling those if you are.

Also, look at any other third party utilities like MSI Afterburner.

 

[Marvin121]

I am not running amd overdrive and I have MSI afterburner but that only affects the GPU doesn't it?

 

[drea.drechsler]

.... I have MSI afterburner but that only affects the GPU doesn't it?

That...i'm not sure about! I think it might do CPU overclocking on some systems, I'd check into it. Or just look through and through to see if there's anything to affect CPU for FX processors. Or just make sure it's not set up to start automatically on system boot up.

 

[Karadjgne]

You have OC Genie or other such? That'll affect bios settings. Especially if it's a board mounted button.

 

[Marvin121]

You have OC Genie or other such? That'll affect bios settings. Especially if it's a board mounted button.

No I don't have anything like that

 

[Karadjgne]

What about Asus Suite, it has Turbo-V to boost the cpu like a software OC.

 

[Marvin121]

What about Asus Suite, it has Turbo-V to boost the cpu like a software OC.

No, I haven't got that either

 

[Karadjgne]

Did you save the OC to a profile like profile #1 and bios is set to enable profile #1 at boot? That would overwrite any prior bios changes or saves to any other profile.