[SOLVED] What are the steps to turn OFF overclocking?

[Tech Questor]

I just recently purchased an Arctic Alpine 12 cpu cooler for my Intel Core i5 4690k processor. I couldn't afford anything more. So I know that I can't overclock with it nor do I want to. I don't know much about computers. I got this one from an old tenant a long time ago.

Could somebody please be so kind as to tell me the steps to turn OFF overclocking on my system and KEEP it off?

My motherboard is the ASUS Maximus VI Impact.

Thank You

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Go into the bios, it's usually a key like del or f2, etc and go into the bios, and tell it to set to stock settings.

You should also be able to unplug the computer, take out the battery that's on the motherboard, leave it out for 10-15 minutes, put it back in, and that theoretically should reset it.

 

[Tech Questor]

Thanks. I know I have to go into the BIOS to turn it off but once I'm in the BIOS how exactly do I turn it off? The BIOS is very confusing for me. If anyone is familiar with my exact BIOS could you please give me the exact steps to take to turn off overclocking once I'm in the BIOS?

Also, I've already had the battery removed for many days but I've read that with certain BIOS settings overclocking will automatically be turned on everytime you boot up your computer?

 

[Karadjgne]

With Asus, in bios just hit F5. That'll return the bios to factory optimized settings. After that, just reset things like xmp for the ram etc, or a simple lock core OC (nothing to change but click the lock all cores button) which is well within the ability of the motherboard and cooler at stock settings.

Then look in the Boot tab, delete any profiles the old user might have saved, save your current bios settings to profile #1, make sure profile #1 is the default profile.

Then hit F10 to save and exit. On boot, it'll use profile #1, which is the settings you specified. It'll always use profile #1, regardless of any further changes, unless you resave the profile to something different.

 

[Tech Questor]

Okay I'll try that out. Thank you for the information.