How Do I Set Adaptive Voltage

[ShakedG]

I have reached a successful overclock of my i7 4790k with an Asus Maximus VII Hero at 4.6 GHZ and 1.23 V in manual mode. I now wanted to set up the power saving settings. So I went to the BIOS and tried setting the adaptive voltage. I set the turbo voltage to 1.23, and the offset to a negative 0.05. That gave me an idle 1.24 V and 1.3 V while stressed. So I tried setting it to 1.18 V with a positive 0.05 offset. It didn't even post, because it tried to give the CPU a core voltage of 1.6 V (!!!). So once again I tried to do this, but this time through Intel XTU. It brought the same result.
Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a better way to do this? Or is this just part of the Haswell power management, and if so, is there any way of overcoming this and actually setting an adaptive voltage?

 

[leigh76]

I just tried to set an offset, and then set it back to auto. It would not let me. I had to clear the CMOS, and then redial in my overclock settings for it to reset back to "auto".

Try clearing the CMOS and re-entering the overclock settings in. Don't change the offset to anything, just leave it at "auto".
Looking forward to hearing the results.

Edit: Another way to reset everything without clearing CMOS would be to load the default settings (F5 while in BIOS) and then re-entering overclock settings.

Necro........ to save CMOS reset 'TYPE' 'AUTO' ie: not numbers.... but letters 😉