make sure that you also have the correct Management Engine Firmware with your BIOS, you can't go switching around BIOS'es without making sure the correct MEFW is also installed.

 

incompatible (old) ME FW with a new bios will result in things like the 39x multiplier issue.

 

yeah man I see what you're saying but If youre getting no lock and fine on the same bios and then suddenly you boot back into win like I did and its stuck at 35x. same bios same everything. board just decides on its own to lock at a certain multi. wtf?

 

I was benching 32m just fine and then I rebooted and its screwed all of a sudden/

no ln2. on h2o only 5ghz. temps were 24c. 1.45vcore and 1.85vdimm.

Edited June 1, 201212 yr by trans am

A superPi time of 6.28 is 5GHz.

All these sound like a firmware corruption issue ( either main BIOS or ME ).

Never had any issues on the Gene-Z and the Gene, neither on the UD3H ( as far as these issues are concerned ).

Perhaps it is somehow triggered by running 1c1t ?

That's the only thing I haven't done in any of my SB & IB sessions.

Insulation-wise I vaseline the baby excessively and thoroughly, never had any moisture/condensation or any water drops at all on any part of the motherboard.

 

Speaking of 1c1t, I remember having the multiplier locked to 39x ( or was it 36x ) with Clarkdale and both on Gigabyte & eVGA P55 mobos. ( didn't try raising the CPU Multi in windows, or maybe I did and it wouldn't change, can't recall for sure ).

If u only use 1 core you'll get 39xmulti in windows which you can adjust in GTL

If u only use 1 core you'll get 39xmulti in windows which you can adjust in GTL

 

strange, I had 2 cores enabled.

On gigabyte z77 board?

Edited June 3, 201212 yr by dinos22

Has anyone who's stuck with this problem tried a Sandy bridge K chip to see if that clears the multi? Gamer suggested that by accident, looks like it didn't work for him though

Anyone tried the DFI style CCMOS? (that is, leaving the board for a few days with no battery).

I had tried and didn't help.

Becnhed 4 hours under LN2, multi still working

 

MVG+3770K

So does anyone have this problem without benchin 1c1t? I didnt have problems with multi since i used only 2c2t, too bad i had much more problems

Has anyone who's stuck with this problem tried a Sandy bridge K chip to see if that clears the multi? Gamer suggested that by accident, looks like it didn't work for him though

 

Tried, but didn't work.

sooo rma these boards or hold out, what do you guys think?

Here the mobo is now damaged for the earthquake under a shelf, problem solved....

I observed that on my X16 locked board Z77A-GD65 when all cpu phases run, I have "DrMos alert led" turning on (red). On new board, I don't have this

I had this issue with an Asrock Extreme6 and it was fixed when I flashed to an older bios. I guess I just got lucky. :celebration:

Or maybe the MSI issue can be solved by flashing an older BIOS with older firmware as well.

 

I don't have the GD65 at hand, but maybe someone who does can try to flash with the 10.3b2 BIOS? It also has an older ME included: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/BIOS/Z77/7751_A32.rar

I can try tomorrow in dos, hopefully it doesnt cock block me by rolling back.

Make sure you verify the ME has been indeed been flashed. Sometimes I get an error message which says that the ME wasn't flashed.

Just throwing an idea here: might the 16x be related to the 'slow mode' function?

 

The MVG has a slowmode switch that 'solves' a fixed 16x ratio. Perhaps the MSI board is somehow locked in slowmode?

On the UD5H, I am stuck at 39x, didn't have this problem on the Maximus 5 Gene

 

Turbo disabled, bios f8c, i7 3770K retail, air cooling, manual bios settings

Edited June 5, 201212 yr by Christian Ney

On the GD65 i just had the x16 problem went in to bios to set some mem timings and then went into win and then x16 only and could not change it damn!

 

But then i pressed the oc genie buttom and the pc restarted 2-3 times and then voila full multi controll again.. so try to mess with that buttom

^ genius, I will try this in a bit

I tried it few days ago, but didn't help, maybe on some boards it will

what version of the Bios and MEI is everyone using when these issues are experienced on the GD65?

you can see your MEI version under settings -> system status

if you upgraded the bios, what method did you follow?