Unable To Clear BIOS

[TubbyTubb]

So I was trying to reset all of my settings to try some different stuff along with some benchmarks well I tried loading defaults in the BIOS, but nothing changed. Next I turned the power off discharged the capacitors took the battery out used a small screwdriver to short the clear CMOS pins turned everything back on went into bios and everything is still OC'd. I boot into Windows open CPU-Z its still going at 5.2Ghz and no matter what I try I can't get it to clear, does anyone have any idea of what could cause this and possibly a solution to it????

 

 

Thomas

[SupaKomputa]

Unplug the pc and take out the battery for 1 minutes, probably your bios still had some charge.

[TubbyTubb]

Ok I'll try that and report back, thanks.

 

Thomas

[TubbyTubb]

11 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Unplug the pc and take out the battery for 1 minutes, probably your bios still had some charge.

Done what you said I even waited for 2 minutes with nothing plugged in and it still OC'd not sure what else to do.

 

Thomas

[TubbyTubb]

I need to do a fresh install of Windows, something happened and I can't even get into windows and none of the repair options are working, I'll work on it later today and let y'all know what happens.

 

 

Thomas

[SupaKomputa]

1 hour ago, TubbyTubb said:

Done what you said I even waited for 2 minutes with nothing plugged in and it still OC'd not sure what else to do.

 

Thomas

Well i should work, did you check the oc values in the bios?

It should reset itself without current.

I assume you overclock it in IPM, so the oc value is applied when you start windows.

 

btw is not unusual to run raid with SSD, probably better if you use a single 980 at 500gb instead of 2x 250gb.

ssd usually run faster at higher capacity, similar to raid.

[TubbyTubb]

I did check the settings in the BIOS and everything is on auto besides setting it to allcore and I set it back to 36 to have 3.6Ghz, but after I done that I tried to boot and it says critical process died and it won't do a system restore, repair or anything just gives me the BSOD. I'm not sure what IPM is never heard the term. I currently have the power cord unplugged I put a clear CMOS jumper on it then I removed the battery, I'm hoping that works but we shall see tomorrow. Also with the 2x250Gb in RAID-0 I'm averaging 3.6-3.8 Gb/s so I'm extremely pleased with the speed of them. Plus I don't have the extra cash laying around to get another drive. My next question is if the clear CMOS works tomorrow and I still can't boot into windows can I just unplug the 2 storage HDD'S and the Samsung SSD'S and then do a clean install on the NVME drives without it causing problems as in will I be able to plug the other drives back in and the RAID setups be there like they were before this happened??? This also occurred right after I updated the BIOS which it done successfully with no issues. But I still can't understand how the OS got corrupted like it did or why it wouldn't clear the CMOS that I've done a million times.

 

Thomas

[SupaKomputa]

The clear cmos is bizzare, that doesn't make sense.

Yes unplug any other storage before reinstalling.

[TubbyTubb]

Just an update I have everything back up and running didn't lose anything valuable so I'm very happy about that. I did have a question though. As long I I take the throttle limits off with the PL1 and PL2 setting will my CPU automatically OC and stay there @5.2Ghz?? Along with my memory being OC'd for just day-to-day stuff and then if I wanna play with some benches I can just go in the BIOS and manually OC it to where I want.

 

Thomas