F8c, dated November 24th 2006...few days old so i suspect an F8d is in the works. One thing i noticed in bios was profiles, never noticed this before but was probably present in F8b.
You can press F11 to save a profile and you can save these profiles to bios....you can choose from 8 custom profiles and name them as you want, F12 is also another new option which allows you to either load a profile from bios or use the last known good bios/profile. Intel AHCI and SATA bios ROM remain unchanged, JMicron is still updated to 1.06.59.
The overclocking persists, and i think it's releated to FSB.
As you can see from the screen shot below i input my standard 425x8, but once again upon shutting down the PC it freezes/no POST. I have to push the reset buton whereby i POST but upon entering bios my CPU Host Clock Control is disabled.
Thus i have tried something different, FSB of 345x8 and 345x9..both work and i can shut down the PC and reboot (but have since learned that these settings will not work either), anything over 350FSB won't work...it's like we're back to the old days of bios version F1-F4. Appears this new bios is back to beng FSB limited. Something GB are aware of and have said they are coming up with a new method for FSB overclocking.
My current settings are 345x9=3.1GHz running a 4:5 devider on the memory giving me 862Mhz with 4-4-4-12 set manually. [update] - on further use the bios is still unstable at anything above 266FSB, i tried 340, 334, 300...it's the same scenario, once you power down and push the power on the PC hangs, it will sit there for 30 seconds or so and then POST, but your overclocking settings are disabled.
Clearly the Watch Clock Timeout issue has not been addressed in this bios.
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