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I upgreaded my old i3-2310m to a used i5-2430m for just 20 dollars so I am using the 2430m now, I'm satisfected with the performance gain over the i3, but I want to tweak the system a little more.

hi again guys. happy new year to all. long time since I posed here I'm trying to unlock the MSR 0x1AD register wich is responsable of unlocking the turbo ratio limits as far I know. I think this can be done by unlocking one of the MSR 0xCE bits, bit 28 if I'm correct (not sure anyway) I was wondering if someone who acomplished this can help me a little. not sure if I should edit one of the BIOS modules or if it is ME firmware related. @Khenglish did you acomplished this?

@Khenglish oh, keep us updated sadly I am outside home for some days and I dont have access to my spare chips or external programer in case something goes wrong, so I will be unable to flash anything in a few days. relating your tests, as far I understood, you are going to tweak the ICC settings using FITC in order to get more stability and be able to archive higher OC than 105, right? correct me if I am wrong

(UEFI) Dell XPS 15z L511z modded BIOS - and HOWTO we made most of our tests on that topic, both hardware and BIOS mods tests, success and failures are there.

true ^^ however, I am now also a little disapointed expecting something higher for a long long time, and after all, finally, when mistery solves, it was just like a software mistake reporting wrong data due screwed time measuring. edit: and yeah, I'm also interested on messing with that bclk strap and tweaking the multipliers with xtu, my brother have a non-extreme ivy bridge and he is able to modify the turboboost limits with xtu software by using prema modded bios. I suspect, this can be done by adding xtu modules to the bios (we didnt had success doing this on the other forum anyway ..., I was just able to replace similar modules with newer or modified ones, but not add new at all)

I feel really confortable with my windows 7, but every time I see that crazy OC mentions, I even think to upgreade to windows 8 UEFI just to run that speeds (I dont like windows 8 too much anyway, it looks like something just for touch screens like tablets.) I wish there could be a way to replicate that 125 or 133 mhz OC and get it working too for windows 7 legacy my cpu have a max multiplier of 28 28 x 104.34 mhz (my current stable bclk OC) = 2'921 Ghz (that is the highest I can get) with 133 , it would be like 28 x 133 mhz = 3'724 Ghz for all cores not an small improvement.. ^^

hi all m17x r3 users. I am trying firmware mods for other fell laptops with similar hardware, but since the m17 r3 seems to have more overclocking options, I am checking the firmware. however I would like to get the ME firmware of the alienware with the firmware options to compare them with my machine. and I would need a firmware dump from you that can be made with fptw software would backup the whole chip to a 4 mb file and would backup only the ME region to run those commands you need ftpw64 wich can be DL here: fptw64 if anyone can provide one of those dumps, I would be very happy

thanks for the info guys. well, I am outside my home now with the laptop and cant test to much at this week, so I will leave for the moment as it is. however is really disapointin that someone with the same chipset and stuff got a 125 mhz or higher OC with a random app, than someone who unlocked descriptor and unlocked the firmware I am thinking about contact CLOVER developers to see what "magic" are they adding on it.

tried 0x00000100 it did disabled spread spectrum, checked cpu-z and it showed exact 100 however, experienced crash while moving BCLK slider even just minimal 0.1 mhz after doing this mod. so for some reason, even the base clock is 100, it is not stable or crash while OCing the BLKC, it doesnt makes sense it happens after disable spread spectrum, wich is usually a feature wich limit OC, but werll , for some reason it does. I will return to 0x00000000 then since it at least seems stable and basic BLKC OC works.

@Khenglish thanks! well, one of the unlocked options in the bios were spread spectrum, it was already disabled, but well, as many of other bios options, I was unable to test if it was really disabled or not. so yeah, ensuring it is disabled through ME firmware editing should be a good idea too ^^ ok, this is how my current setting looks before it was on 0x0001_0000 but originally I changed it to 0x0000_0000 while first modding the ME as many other features marked on green color, I set the indicated value for FCIM overclocking on the documentation. it made overclocking work after changing all the indicated values in past however I supose I will have to change more stuff should it be 0x00010100 ? (setting SSC2 and SSC3 active low settings to 1b instead 0b) how yours SSC CONTROL value looks?

well, using xtu, I cant past 105 mhz, it start becoming unstable 104.42 seems stable after months. relating jkbuha's machine, I dont think it differs to much from mine, and he is able to reach 125 mhz and even higher (he said he didnt tested higher because he was already satisfected with it hehe) so obiusly, there must be something wich clover loader does than I am missing, such as loading those straps Khenglish mentionated. not sure if I need to mess a little more with FITC and the ME region since I saw many DMI/ PEG and PCIE references there. I used CCT command too, wich is part from the ME tools I previously uploaded to this topic and while doing cct.exe gcdr I get following Intel (R) Clock Commander Tool Version: 7.1.20.1119 Copyright (C) 2010 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. clock_id = 1 [DIV1-S] clock_usage = {Display} frequency_min = 120.0000 MHz frequency_max = 120.0000 MHz ssc_change_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_up_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_center_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_down_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_percent_max = 0.50 % clock_id = 2 [DIV2-S] clock_usage = {BCLK, DMI, PEG} frequency_min = 80.0000 MHz frequency_max = 300.0000 MHz ssc_change_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_mode_control_up_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_center_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_down_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_percent_max = 0.50 % clock_id = 3 [DIV3] clock_usage = {PCIe, PCI33, SATA, USB3} frequency_min = 99.5463 MHz frequency_max = 100.0000 MHz ssc_change_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_mode_control_up_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_center_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_down_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_percent_max = 0.50 % clock_id = 4 [DIV4] clock_usage = {Display_Bending} frequency_min = 119.3473 MHz frequency_max = 120.6599 MHz ssc_change_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_mode_control_up_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_center_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_mode_control_down_allowed = 1 ssc_spread_percent_max = 2.50 % clock_id = 5 [DIV1-NS] clock_usage = {Display} frequency_min = 120.0000 MHz frequency_max = 120.0000 MHz ssc_change_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_up_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_center_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_down_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_percent_max = 0.00 % clock_id = 6 [DIV2-NS] clock_usage = {BCLK, DMI, PEG} frequency_min = 100.0000 MHz frequency_max = 100.0000 MHz ssc_change_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_up_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_center_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_mode_control_down_allowed = 0 ssc_spread_percent_max = 0.00 % HECI CMD Status = 0x00000000 (SUCCESS) previusly modding the ME region, I changed some settings to FCIM overclocking setting acording with the pdf documentation. one of the things I altered was the ranges from DIV2-S wich is now: frequency_min = 80.0000 MHz frequency_max = 300.0000 MHz and is the bclk slider on xtu that I have on 104.42 setting, it let me allow move the slider bar between 80 and 300, however the stable margin is way much lower, probably the interesting part is from 99 to 110. this is a part of 1.5MB FW Bring Up Guide 7.1.20.1119.pdf wich can be found here CPT_1.5M_7.1.20.1119 with the rest of the tools like CCT, FITC and FPTW wich I used for me modding. my hm67 chipset cougar point, features the EXTREME PCH SKU abilities from that table this part sounds interesting mmm, is center spread or any other clocks domains the thing I should play with?

thanks , just noticed and replied it already ^^ about your message in this board what kind of bricks? well, even it is suspected to be for hasswell only, I would like to investigate further because this also surprised me I'm focusing now at what Khenglish said and it seems posible for our sandy bridge mobile systems. is it some kind of hardware damage? or more likely standard brick on corrupting the bios/me flash regions? I soldered a socket on mine, so I can swap and reprogram easly the whole 4 mb chip in few minutes. so that is not a problem for me, I am just worried about the other 512kb chip, that one I dont have backup or socket installed on it, I suspect that is the one with the EC info. (I usually prevent modding stuff wich can corrupt that zone) so getting more info about that modification would be nice I'm interested on OCing the machine more, and I'm open to aditional hardware or firmware mods in order to get the max from my machine I already did many stuff for the L502X, but I feel I can go further specially when the 15z (the slim version of the L502X, has been already OCed to 125 mhz even without hardware or firmware mods, just an app named clover , but it isnt an option for me since I cant run my windows OS with it, and I'm also looking for a firmware and more permanent solution.)

@Prema well, relating the laptop, I have 5 spare bios chips and a programmer, so if I brick it, it doesnt matter if it is bios region or ME,I can recover it, (I already did more than 5 times .. ) so I'm not worried about getting on more risky mods. relating the bios, I spent some months modding it. one of the things pending to do is create for example fn+2 shortcuts to turn full fan mode like you did on yours, I sent you several messages on different boards and even on email, but didnt got answer as for the bios way I cant find DMI/PEG ratios on the unlocked menus. all I got was be able of OC the blkc by just 5 mhz by using intel XTU. but cant OC using the bios you have pics of my bios here L502X modded bioses download (GPU voltages and more!) how I can tweak those ratios if non being able to set it from bios menus? anyway to "hardcode" it to some of the bios modules and then flash the modded bios with that setting allways set? or it can be accesible from software like XTU after tweaking the ME firmware more? thanks in advance

@ezsolt well, you can try the bridge pins trick. examples for some laptops: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/2091-lets-enable-overclocking-all-6-7-series-laptops-24.html#post84052 and also this one for the L502X L502X modded bioses download (GPU voltages and more!) - Page 263 http://imageshack.com/a/img841/9289/4b73.jpg @Khenglish or others while reading our old posts. http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/2091-lets-enable-overclocking-all-6-7-series-laptops-7.html I noticed you mentionated about the 125MHz BCLK strap since playing with those straps give huge overclocking increase over the just 5% limit of bclk. where I can change those straps. do it need to be bios modded? ME firmware modded? do the proccesor/socket need some kind of pin mod? or any some current software already do that? (Iike clover did for jkbuha) I want to archive higher OC, specially while we confirmed it is posible from jkbuha laptop, wich is just a slim version of the L502X (my current lap) I would also try clover, but since it was unable to load windows, it doesnt seems valid for me since I operate mainly from that.

Hi prema, my brother is using one of your bios mods on his laptop and I can they are nice. I would like to ask you something, not sure if it is the correct place. how did you added the FN+9 shortcut to switch full fan speed? I am modding the L502X bios at this topic: L502X modded bioses download (GPU voltages and more!) I am interested on adding also a fan hotkey feature I currently am able to switch the mode of the fan, but just via RWE.