Overclocking kills Audio

dave1701

dave1701

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For some weird reason, when I overclock, it wasn't even that much, just 13%, to 2.7ghz, my audio stopped working. When I put it back at 2.4 it worked again. Any Ideas?
 
I'm assuming you're using the FSB to OC, which is fine and dandy, but it might be increasing the speed of your sound chipset and making it unstable? This is honestly a shot in the dark, but I've heard of stranger things happening from overclocking.
 
Motherboard make/mode? Most likely it's what sword said - most cheap/OEM mobos have FSB and other bus speeds running off the same clock so increasing FSB is going to up your PCI(-E)/AGP as well and make your devices behave funny.
 
It's an older computer so yes, It's probably got the FSB linked to everything else. What brand and model? There might be BIOS updates to allow you to change the option.
 
http://ee.giga-byte.com/products/mb/bios/ga-8i845gv-c.html

Here's the story:

This motherboard apparently supports hyper-threading, but you need a bios update. Using the F5 file, I tried to flash the bios with the application that came with the bios update file and it said "Filesize incorrect, please download the 4mb BIOS file". I tried using the q-flash in BIOS and got a similar error. I even tried the risky @BIOS and it didn't even work. They all said the same thing, incorrect file size. I guess my bios is confused and thinks that it needs a 4mb file? I don't know, this is all very frustrating. I've been extchanging messages with gigabyte tech support, but so far it less usefull than starring at a wall. Any Ideas?
 
What's an instant flash utility? Is that Q-Flash, if so I allready tried that. Yes I do have a flash drive too.
 
What's Q-flash say? It should work. Try putting the file on the flash drive (make sure it's the only file) and updating through q-flash
 
Question - 1007322
From : Joshua [ [email protected] ]
Sent : 11/25/2010 03:59
Question : I'm running Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG

Answer - 1005367
Answer : During post does it indicate which version of the bios you are currently running?

Question - 1005367
From : Joshua [ [email protected] ]
Sent : 11/21/2010 02:39
Question : Yes printed on the board it says 8i845GV. F9 doesn't do anything in my BIOS
Answer - 1001775
Answer : Dear Customer

Please look at the model # which is printed on the board itself, is the model correct?
You can also go into bios and press F9 for system information and check the model # there as well

Question - 1001775
From : Joshua [ [email protected] ]
Sent : 11/13/2010 06:43
Question : I did download the F5 file, and used q flash in bios and it said "incorrect file size" I am sure this is is my motherboard, and I have tried do update it in bios, with q-flash, and @bios. They all say the same thing. "incorrect file size". The flash utility that downloaded with the update said "download the 4mb file" I don't think there is a 4mb file.
Answer - 999034
Answer : Dear Customer

Please download the F5 off our website, use the q-flash utility to updating the bios

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/BIOS/motherboard_bios_8i845gv_f5.exe


Question - 999034
From : Joshua [ [email protected] ]
Sent : 11/7/2010 10:48
Question : The Bios update downloads for this motherboard don't seem to work. The in the flash update utility, it says "incorrect file size, download the 4mb bios file" it does the same thing when I try to update in bios.


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Model Name : GA-8I845GV-C
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M/B Rev : Not sure
BIOS Ver : v6.00
Serial No. :
Purchase Dealer :
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VGA Brand : Integrated Model :
CPU Brand : Intel Model : P4 Speed : 2.4 ghz
Operation System : Win XP SP : 3
Memory Brand : Type :
Memory Size : Speed :
Power Supply : W
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That's my conversation with Tech support so far....
 
dave1701 said:
That's my conversation with Tech support so far....
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Ouch, this is quite the puzzler..... I guess it might help if you could take a camera pic of the message. Too bad you can't take BIOS-shots. :) Are there any archives that you didn't extract from the download?
 
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I've never seen this happen before...

I did a google search on that error, there's a few hits and all of them were unable to solve it... "tech support" isn't much help either. :o

This really is an odd problem.
 
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