Jahmer Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 I have a 4 month old HP pavillion with Phoenix award bios cmos. Running baseline temps under load and am hitting 55c. I want to slowing start to bump the frequency. I go into the bios, and I can't change the greyed out fields. I attached 2 screen shots. What am I missing? HP pavillion a6500f 2g, e2220 200x12mult currently (stock). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 (edited) Most motherboards bioses from companies such as HP, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. are locked. Unless you buy an aftermarket board 99.99999% of the time you can not change the FSB or the frequency multiplier. They don't want people screwing around with potentially harmful setting on their warrantied computers, plus its cheaper for them to throw the cheapest board out the door that does stock settings wit the bare minimum components. Those same boards that they output have components that are "probably" just barely within specifications for stock speeds, so if you started overclocking (were it even capable) it wouldn't be nearly as good as an enthusiast board or even an "el-cheapo" aftermarket board... Edited November 11, 2008 by Andrewr05 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 Well put. The grey areas there are for informational use only and can't be changed. If you pop in a new cpu or different ram, it will reflect the hardware change in the grey areas. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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