To the oblivious Gigabyte mobo owners.

[WorldIndustries]

So, when I got my Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 motherboard, I noticed the BIOS settings were a little... Basic. There weren't any memory options or anything like that. So I was regretfully assuming that this motherboard couldn't overclock for crap.

I read through the manual, and they didn't mention any way of getting to advanced settings, nor did the website... Only when I started reading though the Via-Arena forums, I discovered that advanced settings are locked and to unlock them, you have to press CTRL+F1 while in BIOS. I did so, and now I've got a whole bunch of settings to mess with (which will also help me with overclocking).

Just felt that this needed to get out to anyone who has a Gigabyte board and didn't know this. It sure helped me.

 

[Alex81388]

They were in my manual

 

[Greg]

Hmm, maybe I will try this on next boot (although there seems to be plenty of options in the BIOS)

 

[WorldIndustries]

They were in my manual

My manual is garbage... Here's a quote from it that made me laugh:
"Incorrect using these features make cause your system broken."

But yeah, there's two options there I'm not sure of:

M1689 Gated Clock
This field is used to enable or disable the gated clock.

PCI/14M/USB CLK PowerDown
This field is used to enable or disable the PCI/14M/USB clock
power down function.



I'm really hoping that gated clock has something to do with PCI, as I can't find a PCI lock on this mobo... Anyone know what these two options mean and what they do?

 

[Ste]

Ya, Um, I guess the Memo Didn't get to you, Gigabytes aren't that great for overclocking. They are more for reliability, If you wanted to Overclock why didn't you Buy a MSI or DFI?

:/

 

[WorldIndustries]

Because I don't have much money, and the Gigabyte K8U was the cheapest board I could find that had decent reviews.

I guess I can still overclock it 20% 'til I manage to buy a better overclocking board. I'm sure that won't raise the PCI frequency enough to damage anything.

 

[CntdwnToExtn]

i had to update my GA-K8NS in order to get all the o/c features
went from F4 to F18 version. heh.

 

[WorldIndustries]

F18? Mine was F3, I just updated mine from the internet, and the most recent one was F5.

 

[CntdwnToExtn]

might just be the different models?

 

[uzi9mm]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF!



On the back of my gigabyte mobo box it says it supports the CIA and MIB function.... but i failed to enable it until today when I saw this thread.. And it works!!!! I got all of these really nice and gangster settings..

Thank you WorldIndustries