P170EM

I was going to just accept the 4gb as I got the card at an extremely good price and the seller offered me a partial refund on top so I was going to keep it, but It turned out to be faulty

 

My new processor arrived today, can't believe how fast the delivery from China was. All is well, I am able to adjust the multiplier higher in intel XTU. But I can't find a option to adjust the ram command rate , I have Samsung eco memory and wish to change it to 1T. I don't have the the option in xtu or the BIOS

 

1T doesn't even work on the P870, if that is any comfort

 

Yeah that's one option that's missing. By default 1-2 sticks always run T1, and 3-4 run T2. Premamod bios always run T1.

There is limited XMP support for an older spec using older XTU versions. You'll have to flash the sticks yourself for that.

 

Flashing sticks seems like hard work. I checked on Prema's website and am unable to find his bios, I will try contacting him directly and hope that he helps

Edit:

Iv started a conversation thread with prema on the forum, is that the best way to contact him? Thanks

 

You can also edit your own bios using AMIBCP. You can flash the bios to always run T1.

 

That's a good idea, I'll give it a try.

 

Be careful with that tool. There are some seemingly innocuous changes that cause bricks (disabling HT is one). Things like memory command rate, CPU multiplier, TDP UP can be set fine though.

 

Thank you for the heads up. I'm going to try enabling some hidden menus. If I some how set something wrong and brick it, is there a way to reflash back to stock?

 

You can't enable hidden menus. Many of the options presented by AMIBCP do work though. You just need to flash bios whenever you wanna change something.

Recovery on Clevo systems is shakey. I've never had a brick scenario where the emergency recovery feature worked.

 

Physical programmer is about the only way to be sure and taking a full backup beforehand is a must.

 

I agree, there are some things that you really do not want to YOLO.

 

Hello. I'm looking for an unlocked BIOS for p170em for a friend, or possibly an EC firmware set. He's got tremendous problems when changing an original 7970 that burned out to a newer one, CLEVO 1.1 vBIOS card, but the machine is having none of it. When launching a game - throttling like crazy, as if it was running only on Intel GPU. I've heard that some fiddling may need to be done, because the machine doesn't like AMD, but this is getting ridiculous. Can anyone help?

 

Unlocked BIOS settings wont do anything for that.

 

Then what can? The laptop may land in my, well, lap, soon, so I'm trying to gather some Intel on how to resolve it.

 

Testing a different Vbios could help.