New DS rig boots with or without overclock

Hey guys, new to the forum and love my new DS computer, but having a really painful problem and hoped one of you supergeniuses could help me out.  BTW, DS has been awesome about helping me but this problem is stumping me bigtime.  When I boot up, the computer either picks the stock speed of 2.66 Ghz or the overclocked speed of 4.0 Ghz.  Speedstep is disabled, W7 is set to high performance, and temps are fine.  The core speed stays the same no matter the load or time on the computer.  Under CPU-Z I notice the multiplier is always x21, but the bus speed and qpi link are different (133 and 1592 for stock, and 190 and 3429ish for overclock).  When it boots as 4.0 Ghz, the computer flies....FSX at max settings is smooth and NWN2 at max plays about 90 fps average.  When it boots at 2.66, FSX runs about 4 fps and NWN2 at about 25 fps average with all the same settings.  Again, it just seems to be random when it decides to boot up overclocked or not, and loading up the system when the stock speed shows up does not change it.  Any ideas?  Below are my system specs.

Guitarfan....Hey, so this is what I've found so far....and it's a little strange.  Basically, the computer will either start up on a single boot or do the ole double boot, which of course scared me the first time I started it since I'd never seen a rig do that before.  According to what I've learned from different forums, the double boot is normal for a lot of these Intel chipsets and supposedly is designed to occur to help the overclock, tho in my case it does the opposite.  Now when it decides to do the double boot is a bit random as well, tho it seems that the colder the computer, the more chance of a double boot.  When the computer has been used a lot, it tends to restart or just boot with a single go and not shutdown part way through and start up again.  Annoying, but supposedly normal.  Here's what happens with mine tho.  If it single boots, it starts overclocked.  If it double boots, the initial screen (if you see it, sometimes there's no signal to the monitor and it's just blank) shows the overclock, but when the double boot/restart occurs the new startup screen shows stock and windows loads at 2.66 Ghz.  So single boot...oc, double boot...stock.  Here's the weird part. If during a double boot I decide to make a pit stop in the bios, when I exit the bios it will boot up overclocked.  Even if I made NO changes in the bios.  Seriously, just hit Del and go to bios, look at it and say "hmm, bios", exit without changes and it boots up overclocked.  I've made changes to the bios that doesn't affect the double boot.  I'm hoping a newer bios for the E758 mobo will fix the double boot, since in my case that's what APPEARS to stop the overclock.  The good news is there's a workaround for now if it double boots by stopping at the bios.  BTW, the difference in performance in games between the stock and OC is enormous on my system.  Hope this helps, and these things are finicky.  Yours may never double boot and you may have zero issues, but if it does don't be too alarmed.

I would recommend updating to the latest BIOS first. If that doesn't fix it, contact us and we'll have you try completely different overclock settings.

Awesome!

the odds of a new BIOS, or driver coming out, from the time they build your PC till you get it, is pretty good. Also I believe that this person installed a Beta bios.

it has nothing to do with crappy code, it has to deal with new products. BIOS needs to be updated to be compliant with new RAM, keyboards, mice, sound cards, GPU's CPU's hard drives, ect... Yes they are continually working on bugs, like some won't boot when very cold, or to give better stuff, like new  memory timing options.. The list goes on for nearly forever. lol

Edited by justin.kerr - 20 Jan 2010 at 9:21am

what code? in the BIOS of the MOBO, or GPU? or in OS? what are you trying to do? lol

read this, might lead you in the right direction.. a little. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/everything_you_need_know_about_nvidias_gf100_gpu

you can save your oc to a profile in the bios, that way you will save them.

formating the HDD has nothing to do with the cpu oc, cpu oc is nothing but settings in the bios, there is a good chance that DS has already saved your oc to a profile, call them and ask.