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Some Overclocking Options Are Grayed Out On My Bios ??

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contactadam2002   09-05-2009 at 01:29:18 PM

My BFG 680i motherboard has greyed out most overclock options in the bios (such as FSB, CPU and RAM speed) all that’s left is the CPU multiplier and a few other things. Ntune is unable to implement any changes that it makes (even those that are greyed out in the bios). There is a very quiet high pitch squeak (like a dog whistle) when I try to change the fsb memory clock mode and it also freezes at this point. I do not know if the motherboard is responsible, but I am unable to make any changes to the graphics card fan speed or clock speeds either. To my knowledge I am running the most recent version of the bios. When everything is set to default the same occurs. Here are some photos taken from various bios menus that should be useful:

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This is where the squeak can be heard and the bios freezes.

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http://i108.photobucket.com/albums [...] 091758.jpg

These are all my components and setup:
BFG 680i motherboard
Intel QX6700 Quad core
4x1gb Corsair Dominator CM2X1024-8888C4D
Inno3D Geforce 8800GTX 500w Xlico PSU
Zalman CNPS 9700 LED
4 regular sata HDD 2 DVD drives
1 front 12cm intake fan and 1 rear 12cm exhaust fan
WinXP SP3

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richardscott   09-05-2009 at 02:07:14 PM
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change fsb memory clock mode to linked then you can adjust the fsb and oc :P plus read stickie on top of forum

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4ryan6   09-05-2009 at 02:16:16 PM
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Well if BFG follows all the other M/B manufacturers the automatic OCing feature has to be set to manual to access all the manual adjustment features.

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contactadam2002   09-05-2009 at 05:04:51 PM
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richardscott wrote :

change fsb memory clock mode to linked then you can adjust the fsb and oc :P plus read stickie on top of forum



When I try to change the settings from auto to manual (better known as linked, unlinked or auto) this is where I get to the screen that I can do nothing on as all option are grayed out and my RAM is seen as 800Mhz instead of 1066.

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richardscott   09-05-2009 at 06:46:11 PM
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is there not an oc unlock setting?

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