- Joined
- Feb 20, 2007
Setup as follows:
Foxconn Mars mobo
Q6600 G0
2 X 1 GB of a variety of ram interchanged (Mushkin PC8500, Mushkin PC8500 extreme performance, Corsair XMS2 PC6400)
8400 GS (8800GTX is drying from silicone spray and Im only benching CPU tonight)
Corsair HX620W
Turn the rig on, POSTs fine (dry pot at the moment).
Go into BIOS and check CPU temp. All looks good. Hovering about 30C.
Dump some LN2 into the pot for the first time!! Temps move alot slower with the LN2 to start I guess you gotta load the pot? Im watching CPU temp in BIOS and wow.....it reading negative! First time Ive seen that....-30, -35, -40....I stop watching.
Set my volts/fsb/yada yada.....F10 out...no POST
Clear CMOS with the nifty little button on the mobo. No POST
Clear CMOS manually....POST ok...Good
Over the next 30-40 mins, I have a variety of issues with no POSTING and having all kinds of issues. I think its my KVM switch so I pull it. Things seem to go well for a lil while. Next.....something aint right with my vid card? (I dunno)...I switch out for a Radeon 1650 pro. Once again things go well for a little while...then no POST no clear CMOS issues again.
I put back the 8400GS instead of the Radeon...POST fine initially but then same problems...
As of right now, the latest issue which is preventing me from doing ANYTHING is as follows.....
POST ok, as the POST message starts it hangs on the words "Memory Test". Ive tried swapping to all different memory sticks and same thing happens.
Any clues on whats going on? Is this what a cold bug is? It seemed to be the same no matter if I am at -190C or -90C.....Did I freeze my DIMM slots or something?
Letting everything warm up since I have no other choice right now, and will try again in a little while but....Any clues?
BTW, after that first boot my BIOS would NOT read negative temps anymore. Stopped at 0C. Weird huh?
Now that I think about it...I assume I am done for the night? During the hour I was working on it a good amount of frost built up over the CPU pot and started on the resistors on the mobo too. When that melts....Im in trouble eh?
Sounds like Im done for the night
Im completely baffled.
BTW, board was working flawlessly (everything was working well) 2 nights ago when I last benched it on dice with a different CPU (X3220 G0)
Foxconn Mars mobo
Q6600 G0
2 X 1 GB of a variety of ram interchanged (Mushkin PC8500, Mushkin PC8500 extreme performance, Corsair XMS2 PC6400)
8400 GS (8800GTX is drying from silicone spray and Im only benching CPU tonight)
Corsair HX620W
Turn the rig on, POSTs fine (dry pot at the moment).
Go into BIOS and check CPU temp. All looks good. Hovering about 30C.
Dump some LN2 into the pot for the first time!! Temps move alot slower with the LN2 to start I guess you gotta load the pot? Im watching CPU temp in BIOS and wow.....it reading negative! First time Ive seen that....-30, -35, -40....I stop watching.
Set my volts/fsb/yada yada.....F10 out...no POST
Clear CMOS with the nifty little button on the mobo. No POST
Clear CMOS manually....POST ok...Good
Over the next 30-40 mins, I have a variety of issues with no POSTING and having all kinds of issues. I think its my KVM switch so I pull it. Things seem to go well for a lil while. Next.....something aint right with my vid card? (I dunno)...I switch out for a Radeon 1650 pro. Once again things go well for a little while...then no POST no clear CMOS issues again.
I put back the 8400GS instead of the Radeon...POST fine initially but then same problems...
As of right now, the latest issue which is preventing me from doing ANYTHING is as follows.....
POST ok, as the POST message starts it hangs on the words "Memory Test". Ive tried swapping to all different memory sticks and same thing happens.
Any clues on whats going on? Is this what a cold bug is? It seemed to be the same no matter if I am at -190C or -90C.....Did I freeze my DIMM slots or something?
Letting everything warm up since I have no other choice right now, and will try again in a little while but....Any clues?
BTW, after that first boot my BIOS would NOT read negative temps anymore. Stopped at 0C. Weird huh?
Now that I think about it...I assume I am done for the night? During the hour I was working on it a good amount of frost built up over the CPU pot and started on the resistors on the mobo too. When that melts....Im in trouble eh?
Sounds like Im done for the night
Im completely baffled.
BTW, board was working flawlessly (everything was working well) 2 nights ago when I last benched it on dice with a different CPU (X3220 G0)
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