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- Uppsala, Sweden
Hi all
here's a strange problem; purchased a 2nd hand eVGA 680i AR motherboard the other day, together with the Q6600 the previous owner used on it. Installed everything but swapped CPU to a C2D E6600. No POST, nothing. Displays on the mobo would show to - only. Changed to the Q6600, worked fine. Figured the E6600 was dead, until I tested it in my other rig and it worked just fine. Tested my E6750 in the eVGA -> no POST, nothing.
So then proceeded with the Q6600, booted fine, came into Windows, but since all old drivers where there I couldn't use the DiNovo Edge and left it at that then. An exchange deal came up - I didn't like the board to sit in my HTPC, as it'd been clocked with SS and vaseline remained around the CPU socket (and in it). So I swapped the motherboard vs a P35-DS3, and made sure to tell the guy I swapped with about the issues. But since he was gonna run a Q6600 it wasn't too much of a concern.
However, apparently only two cores are being recognized. In the BIOS as well as in Windows with various utilities. BIOS was P31, tried to reflash with P31 and also with the just released P32, but to no avail.
Does anybody have the mildest clue as to what might be the problem here?
As far as I know, he's running at 4 x 900 now, 1.5V or such. I'm not sure if he 'defaulted' to this or if he tried with default/normal settings initially tbh.
But how can the board refuse C2D altogether and simply 'overlook' half the Quad? Does it 'overlook' half the C2D as well, making it a single core and therefore refusing to accept it? Could that be a pin not making contact (vaseline), or would a faulty pin mean that different symptoms would show?
Any thoughts appreciated!
here's a strange problem; purchased a 2nd hand eVGA 680i AR motherboard the other day, together with the Q6600 the previous owner used on it. Installed everything but swapped CPU to a C2D E6600. No POST, nothing. Displays on the mobo would show to - only. Changed to the Q6600, worked fine. Figured the E6600 was dead, until I tested it in my other rig and it worked just fine. Tested my E6750 in the eVGA -> no POST, nothing.
So then proceeded with the Q6600, booted fine, came into Windows, but since all old drivers where there I couldn't use the DiNovo Edge and left it at that then. An exchange deal came up - I didn't like the board to sit in my HTPC, as it'd been clocked with SS and vaseline remained around the CPU socket (and in it). So I swapped the motherboard vs a P35-DS3, and made sure to tell the guy I swapped with about the issues. But since he was gonna run a Q6600 it wasn't too much of a concern.
However, apparently only two cores are being recognized. In the BIOS as well as in Windows with various utilities. BIOS was P31, tried to reflash with P31 and also with the just released P32, but to no avail.
Does anybody have the mildest clue as to what might be the problem here?
As far as I know, he's running at 4 x 900 now, 1.5V or such. I'm not sure if he 'defaulted' to this or if he tried with default/normal settings initially tbh.
But how can the board refuse C2D altogether and simply 'overlook' half the Quad? Does it 'overlook' half the C2D as well, making it a single core and therefore refusing to accept it? Could that be a pin not making contact (vaseline), or would a faulty pin mean that different symptoms would show?
Any thoughts appreciated!