Irreversible OverClock Asus Ai Suite II

MrYorkiebar

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Oct 9, 2016
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These are my current system specs:
CPU: AMD FX 4350 4.3GHz OC (NOT ANYMORE)
Motherboard: M5A97 EVO R2.0
Memory: HyperX FURY Series 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz CL10
Storage: WD 1TB Black Drive 7200 RPM
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R7 250 OC 2GB GDDR5
Case: Corsair Spec-03 Orange
Other:Network card and Blu-ray R/W
Power Supply: Corsair CX430M
Other: Blu-Ray R/W drive + Network card

I always had my CPU frequency on the recommended overclock for my CPU which was 4.3 GHz.

This was set by AMD overdrive. I recently tried the auto tuning on the Asus AI suite II. I selected the extreme OC because I'm such a daredevil and YOLO I guess. It increased the clock speed to 4.6GHz. This is clearly unstable, as less than 10 minutes of game-play on any slightly demanding application (every game) causes my PC to crash. There is No return to normal option in the Asus AI suite. I tried resetting my BIOS by removing the battery which made the bios display 4.2GHz on the Max CPU speed and yet when I continue to OS it shows 4.6GHz on all monitoring programs (AMD overdrive, HWiNFO64) including Asus AI suite itself!! The worst part is that changing the CPU ration on AI suite makes my PC crash and no setting has changed. Resetting AMD overdrive or AI suite just makes it crash also without change. The only option so far is the power management on Windows itself which successfully limits the speed to 4.45GHz at 97% or 3.9GHz at 96% (I don't think windows does math very well).

I want it back to 4.3GHz like it was before, it was fine and dandy at that speed. Please help!
 
Solution
Hey Me.
Try doing the following things on this particular order:
1. Try removing and re-inserting MOBO battery (it won't work but still do it)
2. Restore RADEON SETTINGS to factory defaults
3. Restart immediately and go into BIOS.
4. Reset to defualt settings.
5. Restart immediately and go into BIOS.
6. Go to AI tweaker tab in advanced mode.
7. Set all tabs from manual to AUTO.
8. Start PC
9. IF nothing has changed try steps 5-7 again and restart to windows manually

Do everything in this exact order and it'll probably work.
REMEMBER to save the current CPU config as a profile in AMD Overdrive, the BIOS and AI suite II to stop it happening again

MrYorkiebar

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Oct 9, 2016
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4,520
Hey Me.
Try doing the following things on this particular order:
1. Try removing and re-inserting MOBO battery (it won't work but still do it)
2. Restore RADEON SETTINGS to factory defaults
3. Restart immediately and go into BIOS.
4. Reset to defualt settings.
5. Restart immediately and go into BIOS.
6. Go to AI tweaker tab in advanced mode.
7. Set all tabs from manual to AUTO.
8. Start PC
9. IF nothing has changed try steps 5-7 again and restart to windows manually

Do everything in this exact order and it'll probably work.
REMEMBER to save the current CPU config as a profile in AMD Overdrive, the BIOS and AI suite II to stop it happening again
 
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