Acer Aspire E380 R01-C0 With Unlocked Overclocking Options

[vernaides]

The only thing I can think of that can help you right now is a spare chip with the original Acer BIOS flashed in it...

[drewstew]

Can someone guide me to what I'm doing wrong, or not doing! I have an ACER E380 with 4gb PC2-5300 installed. This can run at 333MHz, but is limited to 200MHz by my original R01-CO Bios. I'm not trying to overclock, just run the RAM to its potential!
Thought I'd found the answer on these pages, and have worked patiently throught all the steps. Have a bootable USB with all the recommended files, with the M613Z_BIN file.
First of all, is that the right BIN file? There's an early post by 1234s282 that suggest it should be 61AO615.Bin, but I can't find a link to that.

I've had all the frustrations others have reported, first of all "The Program File's BIOS-lock string does not match with your system". I don't get that now, but just get kicked to the awdflash help screen and can't go any further. Bootblock is "Disabled" in Bios.

I've tried the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r command; the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r /f command; and the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /f command. All return me to the awdflash help screen.

Only thing I haven't tried are CMOS jumpers. Any advice please?

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Can someone guide me to what I'm doing wrong, or not doing! I have an ACER E380 with 4gb PC2-5300 installed. This can run at 333MHz, but is limited to 200MHz by my original R01-CO Bios. I'm not trying to overclock, just run the RAM to its potential!
Thought I'd found the answer on these pages, and have worked patiently throught all the steps. Have a bootable USB with all the recommended files, with the M613Z_BIN file.
First of all, is that the right BIN file? There's an early post by 1234s282 that suggest it should be 61AO615.Bin, but I can't find a link to that.

I've had all the frustrations others have reported, first of all "The Program File's BIOS-lock string does not match with your system". I don't get that now, but just get kicked to the awdflash help screen and can't go any further. Bootblock is "Disabled" in Bios.

I've tried the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r command; the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r /f command; and the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /f command. All return me to the awdflash help screen.

Only thing I haven't tried are CMOS jumpers. Any advice please?

B.....computers! Thought I'd try with just the /f command one more time, and you know what - it worked! Now I've got a different problem. Thinking that maybe setting a "Supervisor password" in the original BIOS might let me access hidden options, I set one. Now when I enter the new Bios I get an "Enter Password" screen, and guess what - the old password doesn't work, and I can't go any further. I'm really stuck and would appreciate help please!

[drewstew]

Can someone guide me to what I'm doing wrong, or not doing! I have an ACER E380 with 4gb PC2-5300 installed. This can run at 333MHz, but is limited to 200MHz by my original R01-CO Bios. I'm not trying to overclock, just run the RAM to its potential!
Thought I'd found the answer on these pages, and have worked patiently throught all the steps. Have a bootable USB with all the recommended files, with the M613Z_BIN file.
First of all, is that the right BIN file? There's an early post by 1234s282 that suggest it should be 61AO615.Bin, but I can't find a link to that.

I've had all the frustrations others have reported, first of all "The Program File's BIOS-lock string does not match with your system". I don't get that now, but just get kicked to the awdflash help screen and can't go any further. Bootblock is "Disabled" in Bios.

I've tried the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r command; the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r /f command; and the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /f command. All return me to the awdflash help screen.

Only thing I haven't tried are CMOS jumpers. Any advice please?

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Can someone guide me to what I'm doing wrong, or not doing! I have an ACER E380 with 4gb PC2-5300 installed. This can run at 333MHz, but is limited to 200MHz by my original R01-CO Bios. I'm not trying to overclock, just run the RAM to its potential!
Thought I'd found the answer on these pages, and have worked patiently throught all the steps. Have a bootable USB with all the recommended files, with the M613Z_BIN file.
First of all, is that the right BIN file? There's an early post by 1234s282 that suggest it should be 61AO615.Bin, but I can't find a link to that.

I've had all the frustrations others have reported, first of all "The Program File's BIOS-lock string does not match with your system". I don't get that now, but just get kicked to the awdflash help screen and can't go any further. Bootblock is "Disabled" in Bios.

I've tried the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r command; the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r /f command; and the
awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /f command. All return me to the awdflash help screen.

Only thing I haven't tried are CMOS jumpers. Any advice please?

B.....computers! Thought I'd try with just the /f command one more time, and you know what - it worked! Now I've got a different problem. Thinking that maybe setting a "Supervisor password" in the original BIOS might let me access hidden options, I set one. Now when I enter the new Bios I get an "Enter Password" screen, and guess what - the old password doesn't work, and I can't go any further. I'm really stuck and would appreciate help please!

Well, I'm working to the extreme edges of my competence with computers, but Googled my problem, and solution was simple - remove the CMOS battery. And it worked! Can now get computer working to potential!

[bcrens7]

im still kinda new at this i cant find where to adjust the cpu voltage i have every thing eles figured out but idk how or if i even can adjust my cpu voltage

[vernaides]

I think there's a separate unlocked version of the Abit BIOS that has the CPU undervolting functions. I don't have it though.

[TheSlickster]

Thank you. I read the whole thread and part of the T180 thread http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ac...ng-Options
and saved the original bois on my E380 w4400+ using the winflash from T180 thread, and flashed the 613 bin from here using all the switches and the /f and it certainly worked - I am overclocked to 210fsb from 200 as I type this.

I got some Coprocessor detected in Vista32 after the flash not sure what that is and windows update couldn't find anything for it, but I changed some bios
settings so whatever - set my ram above the 506mhz it was stuck at as well...to 667mhz

So far - great ! A good friend of mine who is definitely an enthusiast and a cpu know it all for real told me I couldn't overclock this Acer E380 so later on today he is going to eat his words - yumm yumm he's very hungry and will be very full !!!! He dislikes Acer is an Asus fan - lol this is great !

Thank you !

[teknikAL]

I used this patch for the coprocessor issue: VistaWin7_x64_SMU_driver_mod_by_Fernando
NVidia forums: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=159750

Thank you. I read the whole thread and part of the T180 thread http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ac...ng-Options
and saved the original bois on my E380 w4400+ using the winflash from T180 thread, and flashed the 613 bin from here using all the switches and the /f and it certainly worked - I am overclocked to 210fsb from 200 as I type this.

I got some Coprocessor detected in Vista32 after the flash not sure what that is and windows update couldn't find anything for it, but I changed some bios
settings so whatever - set my ram above the 506mhz it was stuck at as well...to 667mhz

So far - great ! A good friend of mine who is definitely an enthusiast and a cpu know it all for real told me I couldn't overclock this Acer E380 so later on today he is going to eat his words - yumm yumm he's very hungry and will be very full !!!! He dislikes Acer is an Asus fan - lol this is great !

Thank you !

[xDonny]

What am I doing wrong? You all say you can change voltages and such... mine are all greyed out, they two I can change (Voltage 1, and Voltage 5) are just ...'s in the select options and you can make no adjustments, any suggestions?

[lyon_lee]

For screenshots of BIOS setup, please visit http://www.bios-mods.com/blog/?p=142

We finally have some really really exciting news. The battle for these common boards to have stable OC menus, voltage modification, Phenom II support, and a professional retail BIOS has finally come. Our most helpful members banana19 and MrTangoWhiskey have found an ABIT retail BIOS, that successfully flashes to all of the OEM boards mentioned with full control of voltage, OC, and has support for all Phenom I/II proccessors.

So before we get to specifics, a brief timeline on the modding proccess for this motherboard. This has been going on for over a year, and it has taken a lot of support and research to get this board where it should be. We originally started off modifying the HP BIOS for the board. we were able to get overclocking options from it, but the menu was very unstable and items were always floating on the screen. After about 8 months of searching for the solution within the HP BIOS, we realized that poor coding quality in the BIOS was unfixable, and it was time to find the retail fit. I had been doing research on this when a kind member on the forum pointed that this BIOS had all the goods. Its version numbers were similar, it had the same chipset (BIOS donated from ABIT board) and abit has always been known for having overclocking options. With this unlock, we have unlocked what we would see in a retail award bios. The most appealing features are control of AMD Cool and Quiet, Adjustment of CPU FSB, PhenomII support (65-95W recommended) and even setting the voltage and memory timings.

That said, what are you waiting for? Here’s what we need to get started:
1. First, we need to prepare a bootable USB to launch DOS and flash the new BIOS. To do so, download the HP USB disk format tool and install it here


2. Once installed, open the utility and select the USB to format. Below, tick the bubble for creating an MSDOS startup disk. It will then want you to point it to a DOS image folder. You will need to download and unzip this DOS image (do NOT use your own DOS image) here Once it has completed formating your drive, open up the USB in My Computer. Verify that there are only three files on the USB, making sure to unhide protected operating system files in explorer to see them. If you see three DOS files, you are ready for the next phase.

3. Now we will copy over the ABIT BIOS image as well as the flash utility. You will need download AWDFLASH and copy it over to your USB here Once awdflash has been copied over, download the Bios image and save it to your usb from here

4. Once these files have been copied over, you are ready to flash. Reboot windows, and when the BIOS screen comes up hold down Esc and select your USB to boot off of. You will then see a WIN98 splashscreen temporarily flash and you will be in DOS. Once at the prompt, type in the following command:

awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /cc / cd /cp /wb /r

Once you type this in you should see on screen the progress of the BIOS flash. When it has finished, it will automatically restart the systen. When it does, tap the delete key to eter the BIOS. There are a couple of this that you will instantly have to do for the best results. Set Smart Fan to Auto in PC Health setup, Enable HPET Support in Advanced BIOS setup, and in the standard setup, MAKE SURE that the floppy is disabled, or it may stall windows for several odd reasons. Out of our four testers, we have all had success with this mod, each on a different board. I was a second tester for the Nettle2 and have a few more words. If you are planning to do this, I recommend backing up windows in case you have to reformat, which wasn’t that bad considering WHS backs up my data. Also, if you hear loud fan noise do not worry. First off, I am the only tester who had tis issue, but if you do have this issue then unplugging the rear system fan on the back of the case will instantly make the box silent, and colling isn’t affected. I have also made a work around for solving the fan speed issue, if you need it (which you shouldn’t) then you can hit the support forum. We are ensuring 24hr. technical support for these boards, and by become a member of Bios Mods (free) you can post on the forums with any questions.

Update: Please enable PMU in the BIOS to help lower your temps and keep your fans in line.

Thanks for posting the bios mod. Installed on my Aspire E380. Works fine, except the loud fan noise you mentioned. What is the work around? Thanks agian.

[teknikAL]

I have had success with the ABIT Phoenix bios (version 2006/12/19; Date 07/16/2008) flash and have been running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ with no problem.
I have attempted to use a Phenom II X4 905e 2.5 mHz 65watts, but the system will not post; fans spin and HD light goes on.... Do I need more power, the PS is rated only250watts max.
Has The Wiz or anyone else come up with a solution for this ?

The board is HT2000 MCP61PM-AM Rev. 1.0A 15-V01-011011. There is only the CMOS jumper I can see on the board. What could be the problem...
I have re installed the Athlon II 64 4400+ Bribaine processor without a problem...

Allen

OK... I just looked up this thread: HP MCP61PM-HM (Nettle3) 5.17 With Unlocked Overclocking Options; and will try stuff suggested by The Wiz in the first post.
http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-HP...727#pid727