- Dec 28, 2011
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- i7 2600k, Asus Z68Vpro Gen 3 Mobo
Last night I decided to run HW Monitor for no particular reason than to behold my finely tuned machine, and was aghast to see my v-core was at a stratospheric 1.36-1.39 range under load, and my machine was indeed not finely tuned. Temps were peaking into high 40s quickly. I had just finished playing Witcher 3, and am paranoid now just how bad it was during gameplay. I typically have a VERY conservative overclock using offset voltage peaking no more than 1.32 and a humble 4.2Ghz. 1.39v is just insanity to me.
Skittish, I restarted my computer and went into BIOS settings and everything was in French. J'ai dû former ma compréhension des paramètres du BIOS à nouveau. After going into trance and recalling junior high language classes, I was able to set the BIOS back to good 'ole English, restored defaults, cleared the CMOS, put my own OC settings back, and then passed out. This morning I replaced CMOS battery (clearing and replacing settings once again), thinking a period of a few months this computer was unused might have drained it like an old car sitting in a garage. One thing I noticed was the mobo system time was a couple hours off.
OC settings are staying at my settings and I now have HW Monitor on at startup to monitor closely. Bless you CPUID.
Would a bad CMOS battery cause that kind of settings corruption, from v-core to language? And what kinds of lasting damage could I have done to my CPU? If the BIOS got scrambled last time I unplugged and turned off, that would have been a couple weeks ago during my fan filter cleaning ritual. I shudder to think it's been cranked to that crazy voltage the whole time.
Last night I decided to run HW Monitor for no particular reason than to behold my finely tuned machine, and was aghast to see my v-core was at a stratospheric 1.36-1.39 range under load, and my machine was indeed not finely tuned. Temps were peaking into high 40s quickly. I had just finished playing Witcher 3, and am paranoid now just how bad it was during gameplay. I typically have a VERY conservative overclock using offset voltage peaking no more than 1.32 and a humble 4.2Ghz. 1.39v is just insanity to me.
Skittish, I restarted my computer and went into BIOS settings and everything was in French. J'ai dû former ma compréhension des paramètres du BIOS à nouveau. After going into trance and recalling junior high language classes, I was able to set the BIOS back to good 'ole English, restored defaults, cleared the CMOS, put my own OC settings back, and then passed out. This morning I replaced CMOS battery (clearing and replacing settings once again), thinking a period of a few months this computer was unused might have drained it like an old car sitting in a garage. One thing I noticed was the mobo system time was a couple hours off.
OC settings are staying at my settings and I now have HW Monitor on at startup to monitor closely. Bless you CPUID.
Would a bad CMOS battery cause that kind of settings corruption, from v-core to language? And what kinds of lasting damage could I have done to my CPU? If the BIOS got scrambled last time I unplugged and turned off, that would have been a couple weeks ago during my fan filter cleaning ritual. I shudder to think it's been cranked to that crazy voltage the whole time.
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