HP COMPAQ Iris8 with Unlocked Overclocking Options

[TheWiz]

GREAT NEWS! The Abit BIOS appears to be working with voltage and every OC option imaginable, plus support for all AMD CPUs through Phenom II. Please do not test, you can read our progress at the Acer Aspire E380 thread. We want to make sure we have all of our bases covered first

TheWiz

[banana19]

I'm guessing this gateway/e-machine board may use the same or similar bios as well. MCP61P-AM http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Sh...3Rmv.shtml

if you want another bios to play with

Nick

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heres another interesting thread that includes another modded bios based on the abit one for the iris 8.
http://forums.ngemu.com/hardware-discuss...rst-2.html

Nick

[banana19]

Hey Guys,
This is basically based directly off the Nettle2 Bios, and has been updated with bugfixes etc. For overclocking options it will be under Power then Overclocking Options


To flash correctly please create a bootable USB flash drive and use AWDFLASH to flash the bios and ONLY AWDFLASH. I will post the links at the bottom. Enjoy!

AWDFLASH: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1525839/awdflash.EXE

To Make HP USB Drive Bootable: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1525839/Progr...0Drive.exe
Go to bootdisk.com if you need a startup disk. Use the Win98 Startup disk with this software.


Here's the Link to BIOS: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1525839/Bios/iris8mod.bin

flashed iris 8 gl6 with this bios. unlocks most everything. including voltages. Enableing ddr timing options did crash it.

overclocked a 2300 4450E processor to 2600 by increasing voltage and fsb to 230 with a 4x hypertransport.

http://forums.ngemu.com/attachments/hard...rst-new.7z

Nick

[TheWiz]

Hey Nick,

I just upgraded my box with this BIOS and I am having no luck booting Windows (BSOD) and my Fan is going at full speed, but I can access BIOS etc. Thoughts?

TheWiz

[banana19]

Hey Nick,

I just upgraded my box with this BIOS and I am having no luck booting Windows (BSOD) and my Fan is going at full speed, but I can access BIOS etc. Thoughts?

TheWiz

had no prob booting to windows. Although windows did install a few different drivers on first boot, i assume it was installing drivers for the other sata controller thats not really there. I would try ether clearing cmos with jumper or if you have a windows dvd boot off dvd and do a repair to see if it would work better with the right drivers to start with. Also I read one person installed a fresh copy of windows, something about different memory registers.

As a side not im not using the onboard video, not sure if it made a difference.
Smart fan is turned off by default in the bios. If you turn it back on the fan acts like normal.
Also ddr is set to 533 by default. change setting to maxmemclk and you can set the 800ddr

nick

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Hey Nick,

I just upgraded my box with this BIOS and I am having no luck booting Windows (BSOD) and my Fan is going at full speed, but I can access BIOS etc. Thoughts?

TheWiz

had no prob booting to windows. Although windows did install a few different drivers on first boot, i assume it was installing drivers for the other sata controller thats not really there. I would try ether clearing cmos with jumper or if you have a windows dvd boot off dvd and do a repair to see if it would work better with the right drivers to start with. Also I read one person installed a fresh copy of windows, something about different memory registers.

As a side not im not using the onboard video, not sure if it made a difference.
Smart fan is turned off by default in the bios. If you turn it back on the fan acts like normal.
Also ddr is set to 533 by default. change setting to maxmemclk and you can set the 800ddr

nick

oh i also used the default batch file from abit when i flashed and just changed the file name to the new bios. it had a ton of options enabled in the flash program.

[TheWiz]

OK. I cleared CMOS and set up the options. My CPU fan now acts normal, but the rear FAN still blasts away. No luck for the original OS, doing a format now.

Ill keep you posted.

TheWiz (and thanks for your quick reply)

[banana19]

OK. I cleared CMOS and set up the options. My CPU fan now acts normal, but the rear FAN still blasts away. No luck for the original OS, doing a format now.

Ill keep you posted.

TheWiz (and thanks for your quick reply)

my rear fan is just a cheapo Led fan from best buy. seems to be acting normal. make sure raid is disabled if you see that option. prob should make sure its not trying to boot off a non existant floopy or somthing too.


nick

[TheWiz]

Wow, this was pretty fun. So I am sitting here trying to get the Win7 install CD going and its taking an hour just to get to the setup screen. So I do my research and turns out that on some systems not disabling floppy in the BIOS gums up the works. so right now Im in windows, doing my updates and all looks good, EXCEPT! I still can't get the BIOS to set the rear fan at a normal speed. I have the smart fan set to auto and it works on the cpu fan and not the rear. It can read the RPM of the fan so I definitely think something is suspect there. I am going to install speedfan later and see if that is my final verdict.

TheWiz

[TheWiz]

OK. Everything is working well, except my system case fan is NOT working right, (always 100 percent blow) In the PC health status there is only stuff for the CPU fan, so i see no way to control this. Thoughts?

TheWiz

[banana19]

OK. Everything is working well, except my system case fan is NOT working right, (always 100 percent blow) In the PC health status there is only stuff for the CPU fan, so i see no way to control this. Thoughts?

TheWiz

I1ll open this case back up tonight and see where i have the case fan pluged in to. I dont remember if i plugged it in to the motherboard or if its just on a power supply adapter. promised to fix my wifes lap top also. Its 9:15 AM here now just to give you a time idea. You get it over clocked at all? I can actually clock mine higher with the original ram in 1t instead of 2t pair i have in it now, but the 2t is obviously more desirable.

ctrl f1 gave a few more options.

thanks
nick