Can't Change Back To Stock CPU Speeds

[Clstrphbc_donut]

I have been trying to set my CPU ( P4 2.4 w/ HT) back to its stock speed, but it won't let me! Everytime i set the CPU overclock to 0% on my Asus P4P800 it fails POST and says "Overlock Failed" (or similar), then changes it back to 5%, then reboots. Havent tried overlocking it more ie. giving it 10% but surely it should let me revert to the CPU's original speed! Any help greatly appriectiated.

[Kezzer]

you wha? Are you using some kind of "on the fly" program to overclock? I didn't know overclocking your CPU works in percentages.

Otherwise, go into the BIOS, change the Front Side Bus speed or change the multiplier.

[Russ]

^^

or just choose "load default settings"

[Rythmic]

Could be RAM timings or anything that causes the PC not too boot - the ASUS boards just through up the message if the initial POST fails. Try the default settings options as Russ says.

The % overclocks come from Asus's BIOS as well - it's their 'easy overclock' options....

[Kezzer]

damn you asus

[Clstrphbc_donut]

Right, well had a look through the overclocking part of my bios. Finally discovered (coz i dont like messing in BIOS's too much) how to change what i think is the FSB. The one im looking at for the FSB is called "CPU External Frequency" and ranges from 100-400. Yes it is the Asus easy overclocking thing, because when i changed the setting to manual, it gave me several options like:- CPU External Frequency, CPU Vcore, DDR Reference voltage, AGP/PCI Frequency, amongst others. Going to try the default settings thing, but do you think i could change it back manually if this doesnt work? And am i right in saying the CPU External Frequency is FSB? Thanks again

EDIT: Changed back to defaults, everything is fine. Thanks a lot for all your help!

[Russ]

yes you are right