ITK tutorial

[gone_fishin]

Okay, all I changed was the FSB from 600 to 1067. I put that on my floppy and restarted. It ran some text and restarted again, and left me at the double prompt. I shut it down and went into maitenence mode, changed my RAM to 800 5-5-5-12, disabled audio and secondary SATA, and set my SATA to AHCI. Saved changes and turned off. Put my jumper back and turned on Windows. Nothing changed. My pentium D 930 is still at 3GHz. What did I do wrong?

Did you make FSB setting change in the default configuration overide section? You also have to set the "do you want to continue" options to yes to turn the changes on, and since you say you only changed one setting and not the "do you want to continue" settings from the default "no" to "yes" it is not set.

[jbizzler]

Yes those are the FSB settings I changed, but no I did not select yes to "do you want to continue". I'm getting two fields titled "do youw ant to continue?". Which should I use?

[jbizzler]

Now all my fans turn on but nothing else. I guess that means it works and my system isn't stable enough for this OC?

[jbizzler]

Okay, so which settings EXACTLY do I change? I want to do this from the beginning.

[jbizzler]

K guys. I'd like to note that I could never get this to work, and it worked when I reverted to BIOS 0908. However, I had to wait a few minutes for it to boot up.

[Sneaky]

when i "generate media" onto a bootable DOS floppy, these are the only files there - its missing some of the stuff that you have in your screenshot, why is that?


thanks in advance

-Justin

[uOpt]

OK, just to make sure:

Using this method I have to put in one particular set of FSB, multiplier and voltage into the BIOS.

Questions:

- do I have to have Windows with any part of this toolkit running afterwards?

- the +/- 30% burn-in still work as before, but now they are based on the new FSB, right?

- it is still +/- 30% only in the BIOS, right?

- it will give me voltage control on non-extreme CPUs, right?

- do I need to close the debug BIOS bridge ("BIOS mod") first?

[mupets_revenge]

I just modded myself a bios for my pentium D 805

Set fsb to 800mhz ... burn in to -30% and voltage to 1.45v

then flashed. Had a bit of a panic need to leave it unplugged for a bit b4 it works.

So I can now adjust the burn in from -30 to +30 based on the 800mhz giving me lots of control and yes this is doable from bios!

Does that help answer some of your q's?

Also remember to alter the ram settings as the default timmings may be too tight and give you a no boot

also no u dont need to hardbios mod connecting the two things for this to work.

[ScottFern]

Excellent idea! This helps put the information in plain sight for people in need of this information!

[Funky]

- do I have to have Windows with any part of this toolkit running afterwards?

No, you only need ITK for making changes and generate media. thats it.

- the +/- 30% burn-in still work as before, but now they are based on the new FSB, right?
-

Yep

- it will give me voltage control on non-extreme CPUs, right?

You will have to set voltage using ITK, it wont give you that option in bios for no EE CPUs.

- do I need to close the debug BIOS bridge ("BIOS mod") first?

No, this mod is there to avoid exactly thiis bridge mod.

[uOpt]

Thanks, guys

One more:

No, this mod is there to avoid exactly thiis bridge mod.

But this is more powerful than the bridge mode because it gives me unlocked multipliers and it gives me more than +30% FSB overclock (via higher base)

The bridge mod gives me none of these two, right?

Does the bridge mode give me Vcore control on non-EE CPUs?

[Funky]

ya, if you short debug points above BIOS CONFIG pins on the board it will unlock all these options in bios and you wont need ITK anymore.
But many people prefer not to solder on their board either due to lack of skills or to avoid voiding warranty on their boards.
Its really your choice. I will be doing mod as i am really sick of making all those changed again and again and flash again and again :P

[uOpt]

Wait, so the solder bridge solution gives me all of > 30% OC via bigger base FSB and Vcore control on non-EE?

[Funky]

Ya,
I havent tested it personally but thats what it says in the sticky on top.

[eva2000]

confusion with the memory timings section there seems to be 2 sets of values ? one for tightest and one for max loosened ??

also if i want default 266fsb do i need to touch system bus frequency override on bios settings > main section or just chipset configuration > default configuration override ?

also after i generate mediate there's only 5 files on my floppy ? doh forgot to make fdd bootable :o

[gone_fishin]

Just set all memory timings to 5 5 5 15, you can manually tighten them up later in the menus.

just chipset configuration > default configuration override. You must choose yes to both section heads to turn them features on, ie the do you want to continue questions.

Glad to see this thread is still helpfull.

[eva2000]

Been playing with ITK to make custom bioses to flash to. Found out you can only flash to a custom bios if you existing bios is of the same version. Otherwise, at flash time you will get a error message saying 'incorrect reference bios revision'.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherb...74.htm#upgrade

Can I upgrade the BIOS and make custom settings changes simultaneously?
The Intel® Integrator Toolkit does not allow you to simultaneously upgrade your PC's BIOS version and implement custom settings.

Example: Your PC currently has BIOS version P12. You create a custom .BIO file with the toolkit using a new BIOS (P14) that contains customized settings. You cannot install this custom .BIO file on your PC have the custom changes 'stick'. You must first update the BIOS to P14 and then apply the custom changes.

[mupets_revenge]

Hello i tried this again and got it working but the voltage change that i set does not seam to actually change the cpu voltage from the stock.

I am using speedfan to read the cpu voltage and although i set 1.5 in the itk it is still running at 1.3 acording to speed fan. Who should i beleive? What can i do to make it actually change the voltage?

[badboy]

How do I get higher than 3.74mhz on my Pressler 920? I can do 3.8ghz easily. I used the latest bios for the motherboard. All I need is 271x14 which is 3.8ghz. I don't see many option after flashing with this method.

[eva2000]

Hello i tried this again and got it working but the voltage change that i set does not seam to actually change the cpu voltage from the stock.

I am using speedfan to read the cpu voltage and although i set 1.5 in the itk it is still running at 1.3 acording to speed fan. Who should i beleive? What can i do to make it actually change the voltage?

known bug when speedfan or everest is run, it resets vcore to default = solution is to not run speedfan or everest

[eva2000]

Anyone messing around with ITK know what the 2nd burnin percentage option is for ? it only lists 0-4% options ? wonder if it's for MCH or fsb voltage ?

I know the one above it is for fsb % between -20% and +50%. But what's the one underneath it for ?

[mupets_revenge]

wondering about the same thing myself. I tried with it on 0 and 4 and couldnt find out what it had changed if anything.

[eva2000]

well was hopeing it increased mch/fsb voltags a bit LOL notice any voltage changes ?

[uOpt]

To spare other people the disaapointment I had:

The ITK does not give you free CPU multipliers on locked CPUs.

I misunderstood that earlier. On the BadAxe you seem to get just a few more timing controls from the ITK compared to the debug bridge mod.

[bencip19]

Boards with 4Mbit FWH:

Intel® Desktop Board D945GPM

Keeping in mind that I'm quite the amateur (as evidenced by the fact that I bought the D945GPM in the first place )...

1. What is 4MBit FWH?
2. A lot of the options shown in your demo are unavailable (+-30% burn-in, setting any voltages).
3. I can set the processor multiplier and the FSB speed. But my options for memory are still 400MHz, 533MHz, and 667MHz. I guess there's nothing I can do to overclock my memory (which would suck, since I have some G.Skill 800MHz 4-4-4-12's waiting to run...)
4. I downloaded this ITK in the first place to mess with my processor temp--it's at 63C idle, even with the Freezer 7 in there. But when I loaded the ITK, I didn't get the temperature controls plugin as shown in the manual (called there "Intel Precision Cooling")... if I'm going to overclock, I'm REALLY going to need it. Anybody have any luck with it?

Anybody else running a D945GPM? I'm enjoying the 5.1 speaker sound and onboard graphics, and got the sucka for a $66 open box deal at NewEgg, but this computer was built for doing MATLAB (engineering/research software), and I really want to squeeze out some better performance.

Any ideas or recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Ben