Acer Aspire M1610 R01-B0 With Unlocked Overclocking Options

[lecky]

Thanks for the unlocked bios. I couldnt get the link for the boot flash to work if. If anybody has any problems using winflash on windows 7 comes up non award bios right click the aplication and change compatability to win xp sp3 worked fine for me thanks again guys

[lecky2010]

Thanks for the unlocked bios. I couldnt get the link for the boot flash to work if. If anybody has any problems using winflash on windows 7 comes up non award bios right click the aplication and change compatability to win xp sp3 worked fine for me thanks again guys

THE LASTEST BIOS VER R01-B1 UNLOCKED

[hagisbasheruk]

Thanks for this great bios mod, now running my E4400 CPU @ 2.67Ghz CPU TEMP1 20C CPU TEMP2 24C

This is my first post on the forum

[gogo14]

hi all .am new here i hv used thes unlocked bios in my acer aspire m1610
the update was done with success but after rebooting nothing is changed
should me change any thing else?
thanks all and excume me for my english

[sssstew]

Yeah big thanks to Lecky for the BIOS, works a treat, gone from a slow celeron 1.6ghz to a good 2.12ghz.

Gogo - you need to go into the BIOS and change the CPU frequency from 200 to 266.

[mrguen]

Thanks for this mod. It flashed smoothly under windows xp home sp3.

I was wondering if I could use PC6400 RAM since ACER specifies M1610 is limited to 400/533/667 Mhz RAM. Well, you can use PC6400 (800 Mhz) after flashing the BIOS. You just have to set it up manually otherwise it will select 533 Mhz speed.

Here are the benchmark before / after upgrade

CPU speed RAM MaxxMem2 Benchmark
1.8 Ghz (200/100/33) 1Go PC5300 C: 2400 R: 2999 W: 2833 L: 139.1 ns
1.8 Ghz (200/100/33) 2Go PC6400 C: 2820 R: 3064 W: 2897 L: 129.1 ns
2.4 Ghz (266/100/33) 1Go PC5300 C: 2676 R: 3259 W: 3087 L: 126.4 ns
2.4 Ghz (266/100/33) 2Go PC6400 C: 3212 R: 3788 W: 3675 L: 113.2 ns

So it's an increase at best of 2400 to 3212 Mo/s (memory copy) + 33% as we could expect.

CPU benchmark using CPUFree Banchmark 37,84 s/ cycle to 28,37 s/ cycle

It was worth spending this morning + 25 euros.

[mrguen]

WARNING:

I used the config 266/100/33 + DRAM at 800 Mhz one day, playing games. I had 2-3 freezes but it didn't even quit game (stracraft II). The day after the computer broke down after about 15 minutes.

It seems my 500W power supply was not enough. I had replaced the original 250W power supply 15 months ago because I integrated a GEFORCE 8800 GTS card that pumps quite a lot. The CPU din't heat (still 23° c!) and I hope nothing else than the power supply has burned.

[rustystefan]

Award flash not working in Windows 7, anyone got working link to the MS dos download option link on previous page

[mrguen]

Here are the steps I took in order to overclock my acer M1610 /1.8Ghz and avoid a crash.

Since the motherboard specs only considers 400/533/667 Mhz DRAM frequency, I didn't use the 800 Mhz option available with the BIOS mods. Instead I used PC6400 RAM (800 Mhz) with a decreased CAS latency (5-->4). Here is what I did


* Plug my computer into a protected plug against high voltage, since I suspect the broke down of my machine may have been triggered by AC poor quality (we have nuclear AC here).

* changed the 500W power supply of the PC for a high-end 460W power supply.

* kept DRAM frequency at 667 Mhz, but used PC6400 5-5-5 (800 Mhz RAM) and forced the BIOS to use CAS 4 instead of CAS 5 or auto mode.

* according to an internet site I disabled CE1 function and spread spectrum in the BIOS.

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BIOS setup:

Advanced bios features / CPU features / CE1 function: auto -> disabled

Advanced bios features / DRAM clock/Timing Control/ Frequency : 667Mhz -> unchanged
Advanced bios features / DRAM clock/Timing Control/ DDR2 CAS latency : auto (5T) -> 4T

PC Health status / CPU Warning Temp: 70°c -> 60°c
PC Health status / CPU Shutdown Temp: 90°c -> 80°c
PC Health status / SYS Shutdown Temp: 70°c -> 65°c

Frequency Voltage Control / Spread spectrum: enabled -> disabled
Frequency Voltage Control / CPU Host/PCIEX/PCI: 200/100/33 -> 266/100/33

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The benchmarks are now

2.4 Ghz (266/100/33) 2Go PC6400@667-CAS4 C: 3261 R: 3982 W: 4123 L: 118,8 ns

Perf CPU Free Banchmark: 28,4 s.

This configuration brings a perf increase of about 36% (memory copy) as compared to the original configuration and I hope it is safe. It is even better than when using PC6400@800-CAS5 !

I did a 8 hours stress test Ok. Temp monitoring shows a peak temp of about 57°c. Average temp around 50°c. It is borderline. The computer is running ok since a month.

[curtislee1994]

i have installed the bios R01-B2 and i can confirm it works And for all of you guys having great difficulties i may post a video on youtube on how to install...

I have a intel dual core E2140 1.6Ghz And it is now running at 2.2Gz and 3.15Ghz on proformance With speedfan i have set the % to 75% and it is staying around
26c - 34c

i used winflash to install the bios... works perfect many thanks for the download (Y)