Recently upgraded to a new AMD Athlon X4 760K Black Edition, 3.8 ghz stock clock (4.1 boost), and any attempt to overclock it even 100 mhz fails, causing aero effects to be disabled and instability - won't even run WEI (if using software like AMD Overdrive/MSI Control Center), and using the BIOS' auto overclock causes the computer to not even start. What's even more bizarre is when I manually use the BIOS (and I have updated it several times to different versions to try and fix this), I can't even control voltage or the clock multiplier (Multiplier and Voltage are stuck on "Auto" with no option to change, +/- buttons do nothing). MSI Control Center allows me to do that, but gives the effects before (Aero, instability).
Not really sure what's going on here, at all, but I've tried just about everything under the sun and looked extensively at threads with similar issues, but no avail. I'm starting to come to the guess that it's either the PSU or Mobo, but nothing that I've researched makes me think that it is one of those (Mobo handled my A6-5400K OC'ing fine, and the PSU seems to be sufficient to run the hardware). Besides the CPU's inability to overclock it seems to run as it should, and The 7790 overclocks fine with MSI Afterburner.
Thanks!
Mobo: MSI fm2-a75ma-e35
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K Black (Stock cooler)
GPU: PowerColor TurboDuo Radeon 7790 1GB
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
PSU: RD500 2SB 500W
Not really sure what's going on here, at all, but I've tried just about everything under the sun and looked extensively at threads with similar issues, but no avail. I'm starting to come to the guess that it's either the PSU or Mobo, but nothing that I've researched makes me think that it is one of those (Mobo handled my A6-5400K OC'ing fine, and the PSU seems to be sufficient to run the hardware). Besides the CPU's inability to overclock it seems to run as it should, and The 7790 overclocks fine with MSI Afterburner.
Thanks!
Mobo: MSI fm2-a75ma-e35
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K Black (Stock cooler)
GPU: PowerColor TurboDuo Radeon 7790 1GB
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
PSU: RD500 2SB 500W