Having trouble safely Overclocking i5-3570k on Windows 10 (Asrock z77 extreme4) motherboard

nastynas

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Ok so it's a bit of a catch 22 situation.

So there is no way for me to get into the motherboard's BIOS before signing into windows 10. This is where I would overclock my CPU.

So what I would have to do is sign into windows10 and use a Asrock provided utility that restarts my computer THEN puts me into BIOS.

Now if I accidently overclock my CPU too much and crash my computer while trying to find a sweet spot in clock rate/voltage I wont be able to get back into windows and therefore change my settings and tone down my CPU to stop the crashing.

So how do I go about doing this? I need to figure a way to get into BIOS before windows boots but there is no shortcut key I can use or anything

On previous versions of windows there was a key I could press to get into the BIOS every time but windows 10 requires me to boot into the operating system first which I may not always be allowed to do.
 

Aladdad

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Well, Asrock motherboards have this thing called ultra fast boot option in the bios, if you have that enabled it will take you to windows without letting you have the option to boot into the bios. it even gives you a warning "you won't be able to access bios unless you reset your cmos" now i can't think of anything than this, did you enable ultra fast boot before from the bios?

since you can access via the application i would say go to your bios and see if thats enabled and set it to default or just fast boot and not ultra fast :)
 

nastynas

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yea I was already aware of that option in the BIOS and mine is set to normal as opposed to Fast boot/Ultra Fast and it still boots directly into Windows 10 directly with no way to get into BIOS
 

nastynas

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well when I restart it goes directly from the being off-state (black screen) into the blue icon for windows 10 and straight into my login, on windows 7 it used to display my motherboard and a shortcut key guide (F5 to enter BIOS, F6 safe mode, F7 debugging mode etc..) now I never get this screen.