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- Vancouver, Canada
DOOOOOOOODODDDDD WHERE's ma pix?!?!?!
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w.....t..........efffff...
Get that thing tuned up and spit out some screens!
lol on that note off to game
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No Go
Installed windows, drivers etc. NO OC yet all looked good at first.
Ran some test programs then, SPI 1Meg = 1min WTF, of CPU clock at 900mhz.
CPU Z can't see ram but reports multi at 4.5X and 900+ mHZ.
Started a 2 core render, the speed seemed to be average and close to a 2.4 Windsor or stock E6400 Allendale.
Rebooted with CNQ off.
While installing SB drivers it locked up and BSOD, rebooted.
Lost the CDR could not load other drivers but sees the USB, so I break out flash drives.
Load SB drivers OK that's cool.
Reboot, crashes going into windows repeatedly.
Swap RAM, same thing.
Go into BIOS reset to Optimal rastart.
Ok all seems well, CDR is back.
Install Video drivers and now have all the drivers, lets roll.
Install OverDrive cool, fire it up.
Click on settings and set it to load stock speed (crash).
Reboot, Ok seems normal, lets run a new copy of CPUz and fire up coretemp (crash).
At this point the BIOS may be green, it's past midnight and I think I'm loosing the battle.
Have not located the CPU multi which seems to run on CNQ at 4.5.
Turn off CNQ and it locks up. I don't think there's a heat issue being at stock unless it's the northbridge.
Next I'll rule that out by just dropping HT to 2x. I can rule out the RAM, PSU and Video card.
PSU 650 watt, PC-PNC Server grade PSU.
RAM swapped sticks with another pair. Taken from my main when I upgraded. They folded forever.
Video Card, X850 I've been gaming on with no issues.
I'm going to do some testing to see is issues are with RAM first then try and move up the chain. Sorry for the delay, It's green hardware so we can expect issues. This sounds like a BIOS issue but I can't get a handle on it.
Thanks for all your hard work AC. From watching things at Xtreme it seems like buggy bios to me too. Green is a great way to decsribe it.