can someone post or link to one of those earlier bios versions? all biostar has up is the july 10 version and when i use that one i can't get any voltage changes to stick.

also can someone tell me what the mch gtl ref voltage does and what the cpu core 1 and 2 gtl ref voltages do?

i dont understand... i found an earlier bios dated 0620 on biostar's website and flashed it last night. i could make changes to the voltages and they would stick for everything but the CPU, it would stay at 1.18 v no matter what. if i use the 0710 bios on their site right now none of the voltage changes work. am i doing something wrong? have no problems changing voltages with the factory bios (may 30th date maybe?)

i'm trying to overclock an e8400 that i bought from a guy who swears it will go over 4ghz on air cooling but i can't even get it stable at 3.6 and i have run a gajillion memtest's and the ram seems to be handling the settings i have really well so i'm about positive it's either the mobo or the cpu. the board does show my 12v rail as 11.88 but it's wrong because i checked it with a voltmeter while it was playing crysis and it's putting out no less than 12.28. if it's reading getting seeing etc the voltages wrong couldn't that cause my overclocking problems?

there is nothing to post, it won't let me change the cpu voltage. no matter if i hard reset or cut the power off and on a dozen times, it does not change the voltage.

nevermind - i am ashamed to admit what the problem was. it was an ID 10 T error. seems i thought i had a Tpower I45 but in reality I ordered the wrong thing and got a TP45 HP 5.x board. guess they must be pretty close for the bios to actually flash and boot the thing and probably lucky that not being able to change the voltage was the only problem i ran into. hell they actually look a lot alike but still that is an unbelievably stupid error on my part.

i could flash it using the flasher utility accessed from F12 but i wondered why it was every version i tried from the windows flasher reported incorrect rom id