Overclocking RAM on HP pre-built

[Mattattack94]

I recently purchased a pre-built HP desktop and I'm looking to overclock my RAM but the HP BIOS does not have an option to enable XMP or change RAM speed. What am I doing wrong or do I need a different BIOS?

[Jurrunio]

Maybe the chipset of the board doesnt allow such thing? Also HP may use propritary software for that rather than the BIOS because prebuilts are for those that think BIOS stands for "butchered in obvious sawmill", something scary like that.

[jasonmbrown222]

You can look into bios unlocking (Bios modding), to unlock it. Although its really just making settings visible. I have only done this on a laptop. What is your desktops model number (I will try and see if the bios has any of those features hidden, or if it just doesn't have them)

Word of Warning: If you screw up your bios, you wont be able to recover it unless your motherboard has a built in bios backup chip, or you have the physical hardware to flash a bios. If you are still interested you can check if anyone over at https://www.bios-mods.com/ has already made an unlocked bios, You can also request them over there. Alternatively you can look up guides to unlock it yourself (again at Risk of Bricking your motherboard).

I wish you luck!

[Mattattack94]

33 minutes ago, jasonmbrown222 said:

You can look into bios unlocking (Bios modding), to unlock it. Although its really just making settings visible. I have only done this on a laptop. What is your desktops model number (I will try and see if the bios has any of those features hidden, or if it just doesn't have them)

Word of Warning: If you screw up your bios, you wont be able to recover it unless your motherboard has a built in bios backup chip, or you have the physical hardware to flash a bios. If you are still interested you can check if anyone over at https://www.bios-mods.com/ has already made an unlocked bios, You can also request them over there. Alternatively you can look up guides to unlock it yourself (again at Risk of Bricking your motherboard).

I wish you luck!

Here is the model number: TG01-0170m

[jasonmbrown222]

Im pretty new to bios modding, I don't think I grabbed any useful information. There isn't much information about your computer anywhere. I couldn't even find the motherboard model anywhere. All I could see in the bios tool I have was that it goes up to 2400mhz, but given that the computer comes with 2666mhz i probably did something incorrectly (Or that would be 4800mhz... its been a while since I did ram xmp/overclocking). 

I would try asking on bios-mods, give them your motherboard model number and prebuild model. See if someone there is able to help.

 

I don't trust myself to do my own bios modding at this point (I mean I will but if I break something then I get to use an EEPROM Programmer). There is absolutely no way I would be willing to send out a bios I modded without testing it first, and without the same motherboard I'm not sure of a method of testing it.
 

[Mattattack94]

1 hour ago, jasonmbrown222 said:

Im pretty new to bios modding, I don't think I grabbed any useful information. There isn't much information about your computer anywhere. I couldn't even find the motherboard model anywhere. All I could see in the bios tool I have was that it goes up to 2400mhz, but given that the computer comes with 2666mhz i probably did something incorrectly (Or that would be 4800mhz... its been a while since I did ram xmp/overclocking). 

I would try asking on bios-mods, give them your motherboard model number and prebuild model. See if someone there is able to help.

 

I don't trust myself to do my own bios modding at this point (I mean I will but if I break something then I get to use an EEPROM Programmer). There is absolutely no way I would be willing to send out a bios I modded without testing it first, and without the same motherboard I'm not sure of a method of testing it.
 

Ok, thanks. I will go ask there about it.