Hi all,
This is my first post and I'm having some major issues with getting any form of overclocking out of my system. Unfortunately I am at work and am unable to take screenshots at the moment, but I will welcome all information yall can give.
Let me start out by saying I have searched these forums and read just about every post that turned up for "e8400" and "EP35". I have also read the Core2Duo guide that, I believe, Earthdog wrote as well as the Gigabyte guide that Shadow put together. None of these posts nor guides have resolved my issues.
With that out of the way, a bit about my system. I am running an E8400 3.0 GHZ on a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L mobo and 2x2 GB of DDR-2800 RAM (specifically this ram. I have the standard CPU heatsink that came with the CPU, running at idle at about 37C.
I am completely new to overclocking, but reading through a bunch of guides and these forums makes it sound like achieving 3.6 is very simple. Up the FSB from 333 to 400 and set the System Memory Multiplier to 2.00 (making the value 800).
Basically, my BIOS look similar to this, except my Standard Memory Control is 5-5-5-18.
When I save the BIOS, it automatically reboots once (is that normal?) then starts the computer. Within 10 seconds, it reboots again to completion. Unfortunately, the BIOS has reverted back to its normal settings (pre-overclock).
After trying those same settings a few times, I started fiddling around with other settings. I tried upping the FSB by as little as 5, but the same problem happens. I have ran memtest which passed. I don't know what else I can do. If yall have any suggestions, please let me know!
This is my first post and I'm having some major issues with getting any form of overclocking out of my system. Unfortunately I am at work and am unable to take screenshots at the moment, but I will welcome all information yall can give.
Let me start out by saying I have searched these forums and read just about every post that turned up for "e8400" and "EP35". I have also read the Core2Duo guide that, I believe, Earthdog wrote as well as the Gigabyte guide that Shadow put together. None of these posts nor guides have resolved my issues.
With that out of the way, a bit about my system. I am running an E8400 3.0 GHZ on a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L mobo and 2x2 GB of DDR-2800 RAM (specifically this ram. I have the standard CPU heatsink that came with the CPU, running at idle at about 37C.
I am completely new to overclocking, but reading through a bunch of guides and these forums makes it sound like achieving 3.6 is very simple. Up the FSB from 333 to 400 and set the System Memory Multiplier to 2.00 (making the value 800).
Basically, my BIOS look similar to this, except my Standard Memory Control is 5-5-5-18.
When I save the BIOS, it automatically reboots once (is that normal?) then starts the computer. Within 10 seconds, it reboots again to completion. Unfortunately, the BIOS has reverted back to its normal settings (pre-overclock).
After trying those same settings a few times, I started fiddling around with other settings. I tried upping the FSB by as little as 5, but the same problem happens. I have ran memtest which passed. I don't know what else I can do. If yall have any suggestions, please let me know!
